Talbot County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Talbot County, 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 Talbot County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Talbot County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 148 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 37% less time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 10.5 minutes.

Talbot County holds about 0.6% of Maryland's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Talbot County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,837 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)
Talbot County	17.8 min	35.6 min	148 hrs/yr	$4,594	1,154
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.

Commute Time Map: Maryland Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Maryland

Talbot County (17.8 min)
Allegany County (17.8 min)
Wicomico County (18.1 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Maryland

Charles County (40.0 min)
Calvert County (33.6 min)
Prince George's County (32.5 min)

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Talbot County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.8 minutes to get to work in Talbot County. That's 21% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Fastest county 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 15.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Talbot County

Public transit is unusually rare in Talbot County: 8.0 times less than the Maryland average (0.5% vs 4.2%).

Biking is unusually common in Talbot County: 4.9 times more than the Maryland average (1.3% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Talbot County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Talbot 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.

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	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.9%	6.4%	2.2%	0.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	90.1%	6.1%	2.1%	0.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	90.6%	6.5%	1.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	90.7%	6.3%	1.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	89.6%	7.1%	1.7%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	89.3%	7.1%	2.0%	0.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	89.6%	6.2%	2.1%	0.3%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	89.1%	5.9%	2.5%	0.4%	0.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%
2017	87.8%	6.3%	3.3%	0.2%	0.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	88.7%	6.3%	2.8%	0.2%	0.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	87.4%	7.6%	2.5%	0.3%	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	85.1%	9.6%	2.6%	0.6%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	81.1%	13.8%	2.8%	0.4%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	80.2%	14.1%	2.8%	1.0%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	79.9%	14.3%	2.7%	1.2%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	79.3%	15.1%	2.4%	1.3%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%

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 89.9% in 2009 to 79.3% in 2024, down 10.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Talbot County: its share of workers rose from 6.4% in 2009 to 15.1% in 2024, up 8.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit peaked at 1.7% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 0.5%.

Commute Start Times in Talbot County

Rush-Hour RegularsThe highest share of rush-hour departures among Maryland's 24 counties: 54.3% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Talbot County?

The bars show when commuters in Talbot 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		5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Talbot County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across Maryland. Early starts are less common than in Maryland: 10.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Maryland: 54.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.3%) 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 Talbot 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 Talbot 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 Talbot 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Talbot County	Maryland	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:47 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Talbot County were on the road by 7:42 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:39 AM). Maryland followed the same path, with the typical start moving 4 minutes later. Commuters in Talbot County now leave 4 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Talbot County's commute time compare?

Metric	Talbot County	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.8 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	15.1%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Talbot County is 17.8 minutes, shorter than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.2% in Maryland. 2.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Talbot County, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Talbot County, MD is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 37,917 residents against a local median of 51,825. Where Talbot County, MD breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 41% below the local median of 30.0 min at 17.8 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 12.0 min on one-way commute, so Talbot County, MD sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Talbot County, MD has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Talbot County, MD	37,917	17.8 min #1/6	15.1% #3/6	7:42 AM #6/6
Queen Anne's County, MD	51,825	30.0 min	15.0%	7:23 AM
Dorchester County, MD	32,754	21.6 min	7.3%	7:14 AM
Caroline County, MD	33,666	31.6 min	6.9%	7:06 AM
Calvert County, MD	94,313	33.6 min	18.5%	7:16 AM
Anne Arundel County, MD	597,957	25.7 min	18.5%	7:30 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Talbot County, Maryland.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Talbot County, Maryland?

Commuters here spend an estimated 148 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,594 at a typical national wage. That's 37% less than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Talbot County, Maryland?

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

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Talbot County, Maryland?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.5% of commuters use it versus 4.2% in Maryland, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Maryland?

Among counties in Maryland, the shortest average commutes are in Talbot County (17.8 min), Allegany County (17.8 min), Wicomico County (18.1 min). The longest are in Charles County (40.0 min), Calvert County (33.6 min), Prince George's County (32.5 min).