Kent County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Kent County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kent County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 170 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting.

That is 29% less time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.8 minutes each way, a difference of 8.3 minutes.

Kent County holds about 0.3% of Maryland's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kent County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,113 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)
Kent County	20.5 min	40.9 min	170 hrs/yr	$5,283	908
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 20.5 minutes to get to work in Kent County. That's 9% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 78% of counties in Maryland

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 10.3% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 78.3%
• Worked at Home: 10.3%
• Walked: 8.8% unusually high
• Other: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 1.0% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Kent County: 5.1 times less than the Maryland average (1.0% vs 4.9%).

Walked commuting is unusually common in Kent County: 4.5 times more than the Maryland average (8.8% vs 2.0%).

Taxi commuting is unusually low in Kent County: 10.3 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Kent County: 3.5 times less than the Maryland average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Kent County stands out for active commuting: 8.9% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.0 times the Maryland average of 2.2%.

How does Kent County's commute time compare?

Metric	Kent County	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.5 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.3%	17.2%	13.4%
Walked	8.8%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	4.9%	3.5%

The average commute time in Kent County is 20.5 minutes, shorter than the 28.8 minutes in Maryland.

1.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.9% in Maryland. 8.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau