Severn Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Severn, 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 Severn: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Severn 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 5.4 minutes.

Severn holds about 0.9% of Maryland's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Severn would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,358 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)
Severn	22.8 min	45.6 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,894	3,883
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.

Severn Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.8 minutes to get to work in Severn. 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 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Severn

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Severn: 71429.7 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Severn: 10.6 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Severn, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Severn 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	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.2%	2.6%	3.8%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	91.6%	3.0%	4.0%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	91.0%	3.4%	3.9%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	91.6%	2.9%	4.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	90.1%	3.5%	5.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	90.7%	3.0%	4.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%
2015	91.4%	2.5%	4.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2016	91.3%	2.8%	4.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	90.5%	3.2%	4.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	90.5%	3.5%	4.4%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	90.4%	4.0%	4.1%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	88.2%	5.8%	3.6%	1.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	83.3%	10.9%	3.1%	1.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	81.3%	12.7%	3.4%	1.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	79.4%	15.2%	2.6%	1.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	77.8%	16.8%	2.4%	1.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 77.8% in 2024, down 14.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Severn: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 16.8% in 2024, up 14.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.8% to 2.4% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Severn

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Severn?

The bars show when commuters in Severn 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		4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Severn is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across Maryland. Early starts are about as common as in Maryland: 14.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Maryland's: 45.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.4%) 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 Severn, 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 Severn 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 Severn 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	Severn	Maryland	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 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	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:34 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Severn were on the road by 7:35 AM, 17 minutes later than in 2009 (7:18 AM). The shift is sharper than across Maryland, where the typical start moved 4 minutes later. Commuters in Severn now leave 2 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 Severn has moved 10 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Severn in the whole series.

How does Severn's commute time compare?

Metric	Severn	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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.8%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.4%	4.2%	3.2%

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

2.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.2% in Maryland. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Severn, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Severn, MD	56,321	22.8 min #1/3	16.8% #3/3	7:35 AM #2/3
Odenton, MD	41,509	27.4 min	18.9%	7:29 AM
Elkridge, MD	24,792	23.0 min	22.3%	7:53 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Severn, Maryland.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 190 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,894 at a typical national wage. That's 19% less than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Severn, Maryland?

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