Androscoggin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Androscoggin County, Maine: 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 Androscoggin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Androscoggin County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 174 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Maine average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.1 minutes.

Androscoggin County holds about 8.2% of Maine's population and accounts for roughly 8.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Androscoggin County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,161 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)
Androscoggin County	20.9 min	41.8 min	174 hrs/yr	$5,403	1,564
Maine	20.8 min	41.6 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,372	1,015
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: Maine Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Maine

Aroostook County (13.5 min)
Piscataquis County (16.3 min)
Knox County (16.6 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Maine

York County (23.9 min)
Oxford County (23.4 min)
Somerset County (22.5 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Androscoggin County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.9 minutes to get to work in Androscoggin County. That's 7% shorter 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 13.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Androscoggin County

Biking is unusually rare in Androscoggin County: 4.2 times less than the Maine average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Androscoggin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Androscoggin 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	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	91.3%	3.4%	3.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	91.7%	3.2%	3.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	91.7%	2.9%	3.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	91.3%	2.9%	4.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	90.9%	3.0%	4.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%
2014	90.8%	3.4%	3.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%
2015	90.2%	3.4%	4.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%
2016	89.8%	3.8%	4.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%
2017	90.0%	4.1%	4.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%
2018	90.7%	4.1%	3.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%
2019	90.7%	4.4%	3.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2020	88.5%	7.1%	3.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2021	85.6%	9.9%	3.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	84.5%	10.9%	3.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	83.3%	12.1%	3.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	81.4%	13.8%	3.2%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 91.7%. Overall it fell from 91.3% in 2009 to 81.4% in 2024, down 9.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Androscoggin County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 13.8% in 2024, up 10.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

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

Commute Start Times in Androscoggin County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Androscoggin County?

The bars show when commuters in Androscoggin 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 Maine for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.7%

Androscoggin County Maine Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Androscoggin County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.8% across Maine. Early starts are about as common as in Maine: 16.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Maine: 47.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.9% 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 Androscoggin 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 Androscoggin 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 Androscoggin County next to Maine 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	Androscoggin County	Maine	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Androscoggin County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). That goes against the trend across Maine, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Androscoggin County now leave 12 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 Androscoggin County has moved 5 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Androscoggin County in the whole series.

How does Androscoggin County's commute time compare?

Metric	Androscoggin County	Maine	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.9 min	20.8 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.2%	3.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Androscoggin County is about the same as in Maine.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Maine. 3.2% commute by walking, lower than the 3.4% in Maine.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Androscoggin County, ME Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Androscoggin County, ME is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 113,398 residents against a local median of 59,255. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest counties, which makes Androscoggin County, ME an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 9% below the local median at 13.8% against 15.3%. Androscoggin County, ME has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Androscoggin County, ME	113,398	20.9 min #2/6	13.8% #4/6	7:26 AM #5/6
Cumberland County, ME	308,608	20.3 min	21.8%	7:43 AM
Sagadahoc County, ME	37,285	22.2 min	16.9%	7:19 AM
Kennebec County, ME	126,799	21.1 min	15.3%	7:18 AM
Oxford County, ME	59,255	23.4 min	13.6%	7:19 AM
Lincoln County, ME	36,099	21.2 min	13.2%	7:23 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Androscoggin County, Maine.

Is living in Androscoggin County, Maine good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 174 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,403 at a typical national wage. That's 1% more than the typical Maine commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Androscoggin County, Maine?

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

Which counties in Maine have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Maine, the shortest average commutes are in Aroostook County (13.5 min), Piscataquis County (16.3 min), Knox County (16.6 min). The longest are in York County (23.9 min), Oxford County (23.4 min), Somerset County (22.5 min).