Suitland Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Suitland, 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 Suitland: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Suitland spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 265 hours, about 11.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.

Suitland holds about 0.4% of Maryland's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Suitland would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,284 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)
Suitland	31.8 min	63.6 min	265 hrs/yr	$8,211	4,803
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.

Suitland Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.8 minutes to get to work in Suitland. That's 42% 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 16.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Suitland

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

Public transit is unusually common in Suitland: 3.4 times more than the Maryland average (14.5% vs 4.2%).

Biking is essentially absent in Suitland, versus 0.3% in Maryland.

Commute Mode Trends in Suitland, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Suitland 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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	69.6%	0.7%	27.6%	0.2%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	70.3%	0.5%	26.6%	0.4%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	68.8%	0.7%	27.2%	0.4%	2.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	68.7%	1.1%	27.5%	0.1%	2.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	66.5%	1.7%	28.2%	0.4%	2.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	67.3%	1.9%	27.2%	0.4%	2.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	67.8%	2.1%	26.4%	0.5%	2.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	70.3%	2.3%	23.7%	0.9%	2.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	72.2%	2.1%	22.1%	0.9%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	73.7%	2.5%	20.8%	0.9%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	70.5%	3.1%	22.7%	1.1%	1.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	70.3%	6.8%	19.4%	1.6%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	67.8%	10.8%	18.4%	1.3%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	62.5%	13.3%	19.3%	2.2%	1.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	61.5%	14.5%	19.4%	2.3%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	63.7%	16.7%	14.5%	2.5%	1.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2018 at 73.7% and lowest in 2023 at 61.5%. Overall it fell from 69.6% in 2009 to 63.7% in 2024, down 5.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Suitland: its share of workers rose from 0.7% in 2009 to 16.7% in 2024, up 16.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 27.6% to 14.5% of workers (down 13.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 2.9% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 1.4%.

Commute Start Times in Suitland

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Suitland?

The bars show when commuters in Suitland 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		8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		13.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		5.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Suitland is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.3% 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 looks much like Maryland's: 45.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.4%) 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 Suitland, 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 Suitland 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 Suitland 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	Suitland	Maryland	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Suitland were on the road by 7:18 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:31 AM). That goes against the trend across Maryland, where the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Suitland now leave 20 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 Suitland has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Suitland's commute time compare?

Metric	Suitland	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.8 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.7%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	14.5%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Suitland is 31.8 minutes, longer than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

14.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 4.2% in Maryland. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Suitland, Maryland.

Is living in Suitland, Maryland good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 265 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,211 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Suitland, Maryland?

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

Do people use public transit in Suitland, Maryland?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 14.5% of commuters use it versus 4.2% in Maryland, making it a realistic option for many workers.