Queen Anne's County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Queen Anne's County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Queen Anne's County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 250 hours, about 10.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Queen Anne's County holds about 0.8% of Maryland's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Queen Anne's County would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,103 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)
Queen Anne's County	30.0 min	60.1 min	250 hrs/yr	$7,759	868
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.

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On average, it takes 30.0 minutes to get to work in Queen Anne's County. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in Maryland

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 15.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Queen Anne's County

• Car: 83.1%
• Worked at Home: 15.0%
• Public Transportation: 0.6% unusually low
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Other: 0.4%
• Taxi: 0.3%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Queen Anne's County, versus 0.1% in Maryland.

Walking is unusually rare in Queen Anne's County: 4.0 times less than the Maryland average (0.5% vs 2.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Queen Anne's County: 6.8 times less than the Maryland average (0.6% vs 4.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Queen Anne's County: 6.0 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Queen Anne's County: just 0.6%, 4.1 times below the Maryland average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Queen Anne's County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Queen Anne's County 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.7%	6.3%	1.2%	1.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	89.4%	6.7%	1.1%	1.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	89.6%	6.6%	1.3%	1.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	90.7%	6.2%	0.7%	1.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	89.4%	6.5%	1.3%	1.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	89.6%	6.4%	1.2%	2.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	89.4%	6.4%	1.6%	1.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	88.3%	7.2%	1.8%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	87.4%	7.6%	2.2%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	88.3%	7.3%	2.0%	1.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.3%	7.3%	2.0%	1.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.5%	9.8%	1.4%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	86.4%	10.7%	0.8%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	85.8%	11.6%	0.8%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.6%	13.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	83.1%	15.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	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 2012 at 90.7%. Overall it fell from 89.7% in 2009 to 83.1% in 2024, down 6.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Queen Anne's County: its share of workers rose from 6.3% in 2009 to 15.0% in 2024, up 8.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.5% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 2.2% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 0.6%.

Commute Start Times in Queen Anne's County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Queen Anne's County?

The bars show when commuters in Queen Anne's County 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	12:00-4:59 AM Queen Anne's County7.0% Maryland5.5%	7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Queen Anne's County5.2% Maryland4.5%	5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Queen Anne's County5.1% Maryland4.8%	5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Queen Anne's County9.4% Maryland9.2%	9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Queen Anne's County11.8% Maryland8.6%	11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Queen Anne's County15.0% Maryland14.0%	15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Queen Anne's County11.9% Maryland10.8%	11.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Queen Anne's County10.5% Maryland11.9%	10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Queen Anne's County6.2% Maryland6.2%	6.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Queen Anne's County5.8% Maryland7.9%	5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Queen Anne's County2.4% Maryland3.3%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Queen Anne's County1.4% Maryland1.5%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Queen Anne's County4.4% Maryland6.3%	4.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Queen Anne's County3.8% Maryland5.5%	3.8%

Queen Anne's County Maryland Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Queen Anne's County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across Maryland. Early starts are more common than in Maryland: 17.3% 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 (17.9%) 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 Queen Anne's County, 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 Queen Anne's County 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 Queen Anne's County 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Queen Anne's County	Maryland	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Queen Anne's County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). That goes against the trend across Maryland, where the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Queen Anne's County now leave 15 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 Queen Anne's County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Queen Anne's County's commute time compare?

Metric	Queen Anne's County	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.0 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	15.0%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Queen Anne's County is 30.0 minutes, longer than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.2% in Maryland. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau