Milford Mill Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Milford Mill: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Milford Mill spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 259 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.

Milford Mill holds about 0.5% of Maryland's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Milford Mill would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,210 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)
Milford Mill	31.1 min	62.1 min	259 hrs/yr	$8,024	3,764
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.

Milford Mill Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.1 minutes to get to work in Milford Mill. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Milford Mill

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Milford Mill: 7172340.5 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Milford Mill: 4.0 times more than the Maryland average (1.9% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Milford Mill, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Milford Mill 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	Other	Taxi	Walked	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	86.0%	1.8%	9.0%	0.5%	0.2%	2.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	85.5%	1.8%	10.0%	0.6%	0.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	86.6%	2.0%	8.8%	0.3%	0.1%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	86.5%	2.4%	9.6%	0.0%	0.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	85.0%	2.7%	10.9%	0.2%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	87.0%	1.4%	10.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	85.7%	2.6%	9.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	84.1%	3.4%	10.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	82.0%	4.1%	11.8%	1.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	82.9%	4.1%	10.6%	1.4%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	82.8%	4.3%	9.3%	1.8%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	82.8%	5.8%	6.8%	1.4%	1.3%	1.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	81.8%	7.0%	5.7%	2.0%	1.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.4%
2022	80.3%	9.5%	4.7%	2.1%	1.8%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	79.2%	10.6%	5.0%	1.9%	1.9%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	78.0%	12.6%	4.5%	2.0%	1.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 87.0%. Overall it fell from 86.0% in 2009 to 78.0% in 2024, down 8.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Milford Mill: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 12.6% in 2024, up 10.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 9.0% to 4.5% of workers (down 4.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Milford Mill

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Milford Mill?

The bars show when commuters in Milford Mill 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		3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Milford Mill is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across Maryland. Early starts are less common than in Maryland: 13.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Maryland's: 45.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.4%) 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 Milford Mill, 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 Milford Mill 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 Milford Mill 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	Milford Mill	Maryland	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:34 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Milford Mill were on the road by 7:39 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:30 AM). The shift is sharper than across Maryland, where the typical start moved 4 minutes later. Commuters in Milford Mill now leave 1 minute 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 Milford Mill has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Milford Mill's commute time compare?

Metric	Milford Mill	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.1 min	28.3 min	22.4 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	12.6%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.5%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Milford Mill is 31.1 minutes, longer than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

4.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 4.2% in Maryland. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Milford Mill, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Milford Mill, MD is typical in size for this group, 30,831 residents against a local median of 35,750, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Milford Mill, MD's work from home, at 12.6%, runs 18% below the 15.4% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves spread 8.6% on work from home, so Milford Mill, MD sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Milford Mill, MD has the 4th highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Milford Mill, MD	30,831	31.1 min #4/5	12.6% #4/5	7:39 AM #2/5
Lochearn, MD	26,493	27.9 min	10.5%	7:51 AM
Woodlawn, MD	40,959	23.9 min	15.6%	8:05 AM
Randallstown, MD	32,727	31.3 min	15.3%	7:33 AM
Owings Mills, MD	38,773	30.2 min	19.0%	7:40 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Milford Mill, Maryland.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Milford Mill, Maryland?

Commuters here spend an estimated 259 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,024 at a typical national wage. That's 10% more than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Milford Mill, Maryland?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Milford Mill, 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.