Pikesville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pikesville, 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 Pikesville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pikesville spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 190 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.

Pikesville holds about 0.5% of Maryland's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pikesville would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,353 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)
Pikesville	22.8 min	45.5 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,883	3,515
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.

Pikesville Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.8 minutes to get to work in Pikesville. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pikesville

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

Biking is unusually rare in Pikesville: 3240784.0 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Pikesville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pikesville 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	87.7%	5.4%	0.6%	5.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	87.9%	4.8%	0.8%	5.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	88.8%	5.1%	0.9%	4.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.1%	5.6%	0.5%	4.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	87.7%	5.7%	0.8%	5.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	86.2%	5.5%	0.8%	6.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	85.1%	6.0%	1.0%	7.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	84.9%	6.6%	1.2%	6.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	86.4%	5.9%	1.2%	5.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	86.0%	6.2%	1.3%	5.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	86.3%	6.6%	0.8%	5.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	83.3%	11.3%	1.1%	3.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	76.7%	16.8%	1.9%	3.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	74.7%	19.3%	2.5%	2.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	72.9%	21.5%	2.5%	2.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	70.4%	24.4%	3.1%	1.4%	0.5%	0.2%	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 88.8%. Overall it fell from 87.7% in 2009 to 70.4% in 2024, down 17.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pikesville: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 24.4% in 2024, up 19.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.6% to 1.4% of workers (down 4.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Pikesville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pikesville?

The bars show when commuters in Pikesville 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		2.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		12.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		14.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pikesville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across Maryland. Early starts are less common than in Maryland: 7.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Maryland: 48.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.0%) 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 Pikesville, 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 Pikesville 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 Pikesville 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	Pikesville	Maryland	United States
2009	8:04 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:06 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:05 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:01 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:03 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:01 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:02 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:08 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:08 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:06 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pikesville were on the road by 8:06 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (8:04 AM). Maryland followed the same path, with the typical start moving 4 minutes later. Commuters in Pikesville now leave 28 minutes 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 Pikesville has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Pikesville's commute time compare?

Metric	Pikesville	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.8 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	09:00 AM – 09:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	24.4%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	3.1%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pikesville is 22.8 minutes, shorter than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

1.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.2% in Maryland. 3.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pikesville, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Pikesville, MD is typical in size for this group, 32,882 residents against a local median of 30,831, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Pikesville, MD's work from home, at 24.4%, runs 93% above the 12.6% typical of the cities around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 22.8 min against a local median of 27.9 min, 18% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 18% below the local median it puts Pikesville, MD at the better end of the local range. The cities themselves spread 12.5% on work from home, so Pikesville, MD sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Pikesville, MD has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pikesville, MD	32,882	22.8 min #2/4	24.4% #1/4	8:06 AM #3/4
Lochearn, MD	26,493	27.9 min	10.5%	7:51 AM
Milford Mill, MD	30,831	31.1 min	12.6%	7:39 AM
Towson, MD	60,458	22.2 min	23.0%	8:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pikesville, Maryland.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Pikesville, Maryland?

Commuters here spend an estimated 190 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,883 at a typical national wage. That's 19% less than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Pikesville, Maryland?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pikesville, Maryland. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.