Hyattsville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Hyattsville, Maryland: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Hyattsville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hyattsville spend about 66 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 274 hours, about 11.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% more time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 4.6 minutes.

Hyattsville holds about 0.4% of Maryland's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hyattsville would save about 110 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,398 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)
Hyattsville	32.9 min	65.8 min	274 hrs/yr	$8,495	3,998
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.

Hyattsville Commute Map

On average, it takes 32.9 minutes to get to work in Hyattsville. That's 47% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 23.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hyattsville

Driving is 22% less common in Hyattsville than the Maryland average (56.4% vs 72.4%).

Public transit is unusually common in Hyattsville: 3.2 times more than the Maryland average (13.5% vs 4.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hyattsville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hyattsville 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	63.6%	0.8%	28.3%	5.1%	0.7%	0.0%	1.4%	0.1%
2010	64.4%	1.5%	29.9%	3.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%
2011	62.1%	1.6%	31.5%	3.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.8%	0.1%
2012	61.3%	1.4%	32.8%	2.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.9%	0.1%
2013	61.0%	1.6%	31.9%	3.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%
2014	61.8%	2.2%	31.5%	3.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	61.3%	2.0%	31.5%	3.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%
2016	63.3%	2.0%	28.5%	4.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%
2017	65.1%	1.9%	26.4%	4.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%
2018	64.5%	2.4%	25.7%	4.5%	1.2%	0.5%	1.1%	0.1%
2019	64.5%	2.7%	25.8%	4.1%	1.0%	0.5%	1.2%	0.1%
2020	59.7%	9.6%	23.7%	3.7%	1.6%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%
2021	58.8%	14.1%	20.9%	3.6%	1.2%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%
2022	57.3%	17.6%	19.3%	3.1%	1.5%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%
2023	57.1%	19.5%	17.2%	4.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%
2024	56.4%	23.7%	13.5%	4.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2017 at 65.1%. Overall it fell from 63.6% in 2009 to 56.4% in 2024, down 7.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hyattsville: its share of workers rose from 0.8% in 2009 to 23.7% in 2024, up 22.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 21.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 28.3% to 13.5% of workers (down 14.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Hyattsville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hyattsville?

The bars show when commuters in Hyattsville 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		4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		15.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hyattsville is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.2% across Maryland. Early starts are about as common as in Maryland: 15.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Maryland: 37.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.4%) 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 Hyattsville, 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 Hyattsville 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 Hyattsville 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	Hyattsville	Maryland	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:52 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:52 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 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	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hyattsville were on the road by 7:38 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:26 AM). The shift is sharper than across Maryland, where the typical start moved 4 minutes later. Commuters in Hyattsville now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Hyattsville has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Hyattsville's commute time compare?

Metric	Hyattsville	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.9 min	28.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	23.7%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	4.2%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	13.5%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hyattsville is 32.9 minutes, longer than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

13.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 4.2% in Maryland. 4.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hyattsville, Maryland.

Is commuting expensive in Hyattsville, Maryland?

Commuters here spend an estimated 274 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,495 at a typical national wage. That's 16% more than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Hyattsville, Maryland?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Hyattsville, Maryland. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Hyattsville, Maryland?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 13.5% of commuters use it versus 4.2% in Maryland, making it a realistic option for many workers.