Harford County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Harford County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Harford County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 254 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting.

That is 6% more time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Harford County holds about 4.3% of Maryland's population but accounts for roughly 4.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Harford County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,156 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)
Harford County	30.5 min	61.1 min	254 hrs/yr	$7,889	1,572
Maryland	28.8 min	57.5 min	240 hrs/yr	$7,433	2,353
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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.

Commute Time Map: Maryland Counties

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On average, it takes 30.5 minutes to get to work in Harford County. That's 36% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 78% of counties in Maryland

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 13.4% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 83.4%
• Worked at Home: 13.4%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.9% unusually low
• Other: 0.8%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Harford County: 5.6 times less than the Maryland average (0.9% vs 4.9%).

How does Harford County's commute time compare?

Metric	Harford County	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.5 min	28.8 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.4%	17.2%	13.4%
Walked	1.1%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	4.9%	3.5%

The average commute time in Harford County is 30.5 minutes, longer than the 28.8 minutes in Maryland.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.9% in Maryland. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau