Langley Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Langley Park, 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 Langley Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Langley Park spend about 78 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 325 hours, about 13.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 38% more time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 10.7 minutes.

Langley Park holds about 0.3% of Maryland's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Langley Park would save about 130 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $4,024 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)
Langley Park	38.9 min	77.9 min	325 hrs/yr	$10,061	4,149
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.

Langley Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 38.9 minutes to get to work in Langley Park. That's 74% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 3.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Langley Park

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Langley Park, versus 0.1% in Maryland.

Public transit is unusually common in Langley Park: 3.7 times more than the Maryland average (15.7% vs 4.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Langley Park: 3.1 times more than the Maryland average (1.5% vs 0.5%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Langley Park: 6.3 times less than the Maryland average (3.1% vs 19.3%).

Biking is essentially absent in Langley Park, versus 0.3% in Maryland.

Commute Mode Trends in Langley Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Langley Park 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Worked at Home	Taxi	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	69.0%	26.3%	2.0%	1.7%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	68.1%	26.8%	2.9%	1.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	70.4%	25.2%	2.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	71.3%	24.0%	3.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	75.4%	20.0%	3.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	74.5%	20.1%	4.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	75.3%	19.5%	4.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	73.9%	21.0%	4.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	76.6%	18.8%	3.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	74.5%	21.3%	3.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	77.0%	20.0%	1.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	77.0%	19.2%	1.9%	1.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	78.9%	15.8%	1.7%	2.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	76.6%	14.4%	3.8%	3.1%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	74.5%	14.8%	5.8%	2.7%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	73.4%	15.7%	5.6%	3.1%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2021 at 78.9% and lowest in 2010 at 68.1%. Overall it rose from 69.0% in 2009 to 73.4% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Langley Park: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 5.6% in 2024, up 3.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 26.3% to 15.7% of workers (down 10.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Langley Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Langley Park?

The bars show when commuters in Langley Park 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		5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		16.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		26.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		4.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		4.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		1.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Langley Park is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 26.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.2% across Maryland. Early starts are more common than in Maryland: 26.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Maryland: 34.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (11.9%) 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 Langley Park, 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 Langley Park 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 Langley Park 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	Langley Park	Maryland	United States
2009	6:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:55 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:49 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:50 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:28 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Langley Park were on the road by 6:27 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (6:44 AM). That goes against the trend across Maryland, where the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Langley Park now leave 70 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Langley Park has moved 23 minutes earlier.

How does Langley Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Langley Park	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	38.9 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	05:00 AM – 05:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.1%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	5.6%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	15.7%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Langley Park is 38.9 minutes, longer than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

15.7% commute by public transit, higher than the 4.2% in Maryland. 5.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Langley Park, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Langley Park, MD compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Langley Park, MD	21,649	38.9 min #3/3	3.1% #3/3	6:27 AM #1/3
Chillum, MD	32,171	33.5 min	10.2%	6:48 AM
Hyattsville, MD	22,604	32.9 min	23.7%	7:37 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Langley Park, Maryland.

Is living in Langley Park, Maryland good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 325 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $10,061 at a typical national wage. That's 38% more than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Langley Park, Maryland?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Langley Park, Maryland. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Langley Park, Maryland?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 15.7% of commuters use it versus 4.2% in Maryland, making it a realistic option for many workers.