Cumberland County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Cumberland 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 Cumberland County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cumberland County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Maine average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Cumberland County holds about 22.2% of Maine's population but accounts for roughly 21.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cumberland County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,100 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)
Cumberland County	20.3 min	40.7 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,251	1,705
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

Cumberland County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.3 minutes to get to work in Cumberland County. That's 9% 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 21.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cumberland County

Commute Mode Trends in Cumberland County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cumberland 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	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	86.5%	5.3%	4.9%	1.4%	0.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	86.5%	5.1%	5.1%	1.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	86.8%	5.1%	5.1%	1.3%	0.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	86.2%	5.3%	5.4%	1.2%	0.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	86.3%	5.7%	5.1%	1.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	86.0%	5.8%	5.0%	1.3%	0.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	85.9%	6.0%	5.0%	1.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	85.2%	6.4%	5.1%	1.5%	0.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	84.9%	7.0%	4.9%	1.4%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	84.3%	7.1%	5.2%	1.4%	0.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	84.3%	7.2%	5.4%	1.3%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	81.5%	10.4%	5.2%	1.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	77.9%	14.0%	5.5%	0.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	75.3%	16.7%	5.4%	0.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	72.9%	19.4%	5.1%	1.0%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	70.4%	21.8%	5.0%	0.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 86.8%. Overall it fell from 86.5% in 2009 to 70.4% in 2024, down 16.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cumberland County: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 21.8% in 2024, up 16.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Cumberland County

Night OwlThe latest start among Maine's 16 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 7:43 AM.
Sleeping InThe 2nd-highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among Maine's 16 counties: 22.9% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.
Rush-Hour RegularsThe 2nd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Maine's 16 counties: 53.3% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cumberland County?

The bars show when commuters in Cumberland 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		4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cumberland County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.8% across Maine. Early starts are less common than in Maine: 10.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Maine: 53.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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	Cumberland County	Maine	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:42 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:43 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cumberland County were on the road by 7:44 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:42 AM). That goes against the trend across Maine, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Cumberland County now leave 6 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Cumberland County has moved 6 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Cumberland County in the whole series.

How does Cumberland County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cumberland County	Maine	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.3 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	21.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	5.0%	3.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cumberland County is 20.3 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Maine.

0.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in Maine. 5.0% commute by walking, higher than the 3.4% in Maine.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Cumberland County, ME Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Cumberland County, ME is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 308,608 residents against a local median of 113,398. Cumberland County, ME's work from home, at 21.8%, runs 43% above the 15.3% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves sit within 3.3% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Cumberland County, ME, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Cumberland County, ME has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Cumberland County, ME	308,608	20.3 min #1/6	21.8% #1/6	7:43 AM #6/6
Androscoggin County, ME	113,398	20.9 min	13.8%	7:26 AM
Sagadahoc County, ME	37,285	22.2 min	16.9%	7:19 AM
York County, ME	216,704	23.9 min	16.8%	7:23 AM
Oxford County, ME	59,255	23.4 min	13.6%	7:19 AM
Kennebec County, ME	126,799	21.1 min	15.3%	7:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cumberland County, Maine.

Is commuting expensive in Cumberland County, Maine?

Commuters here spend an estimated 169 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,251 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Maine commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Cumberland County, Maine?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Cumberland 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.

Is Cumberland County, Maine a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 21.8% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Cumberland County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,100 at the same national wage assumption used above.

How do commute times compare across counties in Maine?

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).