Hagerstown Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Hagerstown: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hagerstown spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 36% less time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 10.2 minutes.

Hagerstown holds about 0.6% of Maryland's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hagerstown would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,866 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Hagerstown	18.1 min	36.1 min	151 hrs/yr	$4,666	2,599
Maryland	28.3 min	56.5 min	236 hrs/yr	$7,301	2,353
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Hagerstown Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.1 minutes to get to work in Hagerstown. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hagerstown

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Hagerstown: 5.5 times more than the Maryland average (2.6% vs 0.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Hagerstown: 4.5 times less than the Maryland average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hagerstown, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hagerstown get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Taxi	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.2%	2.1%	0.8%	1.9%	3.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%
2010	92.0%	2.0%	0.7%	1.8%	2.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	91.1%	1.9%	1.0%	1.8%	3.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	91.2%	2.1%	0.8%	1.5%	3.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%
2013	90.3%	2.5%	1.2%	1.9%	3.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	89.4%	2.6%	1.2%	2.4%	3.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.5%
2015	87.9%	3.8%	1.3%	2.3%	3.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%
2016	87.5%	4.1%	1.1%	2.6%	3.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.4%
2017	86.8%	4.0%	1.3%	3.0%	3.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	86.5%	3.9%	1.1%	3.8%	3.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	86.9%	3.8%	1.0%	3.2%	3.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	86.0%	4.9%	1.1%	3.1%	3.5%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	85.2%	6.0%	1.5%	2.5%	3.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	85.2%	6.5%	2.2%	2.1%	2.1%	1.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	84.1%	7.8%	2.0%	1.7%	2.1%	2.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	82.1%	9.9%	2.6%	2.4%	2.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 92.0%. Overall it fell from 90.2% in 2009 to 82.1% in 2024, down 8.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hagerstown: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 7.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.8% to 2.0% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 3.8% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 2.4%.

Commute Start Times in Hagerstown

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hagerstown?

The bars show when commuters in Hagerstown leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Maryland for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		12.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.7%

Hagerstown Maryland Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Hagerstown is 12:00-3:59 PM, when 12.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.3% across Maryland. Early starts are more common than in Maryland: 19.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Maryland: 38.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (29.9%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Hagerstown, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Hagerstown Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Hagerstown next to Maryland and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Hagerstown	Maryland	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hagerstown were on the road by 7:46 AM, 14 minutes later than in 2009 (7:32 AM). The shift is sharper than across Maryland, where the typical start moved 4 minutes later. Commuters in Hagerstown now leave 8 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Hagerstown has moved 5 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Hagerstown in the whole series.

How does Hagerstown's commute time compare?

Metric	Hagerstown	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.1 min	28.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.9%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.4%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hagerstown is 18.1 minutes, shorter than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

2.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.2% in Maryland. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hagerstown, Maryland.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Hagerstown, Maryland?

Commuters here spend an estimated 151 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,666 at a typical national wage. That's 36% less than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Hagerstown, Maryland?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM in Hagerstown, Maryland. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.