Pasadena Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pasadena, 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 Pasadena: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pasadena spend about 58 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 241 hours, about 10.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Pasadena holds about 0.6% of Maryland's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pasadena would save about 96 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,989 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)
Pasadena	28.9 min	57.8 min	241 hrs/yr	$7,472	2,808
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.

Pasadena Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.9 minutes to get to work in Pasadena. That's 29% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 19.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pasadena

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Pasadena: 544665102.9 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Pasadena: 12.8 times less than the Maryland average (0.2% vs 2.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Pasadena: 18.3 times less than the Maryland average (0.2% vs 4.2%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Pasadena, versus 0.5% in Maryland.

Biking is unusually rare in Pasadena: 3.9 times less than the Maryland average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Pasadena: just 0.2%, 10.1 times below the Maryland average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Pasadena, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pasadena 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	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	95.3%	2.5%	0.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	95.5%	2.0%	0.7%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	95.8%	2.2%	0.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	95.0%	2.4%	0.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.5%	2.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.5%	3.2%	0.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.1%	3.5%	0.3%	1.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	92.8%	3.7%	0.3%	1.3%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	92.8%	4.3%	0.0%	1.0%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	91.7%	4.8%	0.4%	1.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	91.4%	5.6%	0.4%	0.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	87.6%	10.1%	0.6%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	82.9%	15.3%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	81.6%	17.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	80.6%	18.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	79.9%	19.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 95.8%. Overall it fell from 95.3% in 2009 to 79.9% in 2024, down 15.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pasadena: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 19.3% in 2024, up 16.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 1.7% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.2%.

Commute Start Times in Pasadena

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pasadena?

The bars show when commuters in Pasadena 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		5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pasadena is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across Maryland. Early starts are more common than in Maryland: 17.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Maryland: 49.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.2%) 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 Pasadena, 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 Pasadena 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 Pasadena 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	Pasadena	Maryland	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pasadena were on the road by 7:25 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Maryland, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Pasadena now leave 13 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 Pasadena has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Pasadena's commute time compare?

Metric	Pasadena	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.9 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	19.3%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pasadena is 28.9 minutes, longer than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.2% in Maryland. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pasadena, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pasadena, MD	34,267	28.9 min #3/3	19.3% #2/3	7:25 AM #1/3
Glen Burnie, MD	72,802	23.7 min	11.7%	7:26 AM
Severna Park, MD	39,868	26.6 min	24.0%	7:39 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pasadena, Maryland.

Is commuting expensive in Pasadena, Maryland?

Commuters here spend an estimated 241 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,472 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pasadena, Maryland. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Pasadena, Maryland?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 4.2% in Maryland, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.