Cumberland County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cumberland County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cumberland 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 177 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the New Jersey average of 26.2 minutes each way, a difference of 4.9 minutes.

Cumberland County holds about 1.6% of New Jersey's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cumberland County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,195 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	21.2 min	42.5 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,487	963
New Jersey	26.2 min	52.4 min	218 hrs/yr	$6,764	2,109
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: New Jersey Counties

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On average, it takes 21.2 minutes to get to work in Cumberland County. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest counties in New Jersey

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cumberland County

• Car: 89.0% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 5.4% unusually low
• Other: 1.8%
• Public Transportation: 1.5% unusually low
• Walked: 1.3%
• Bicycle: 0.8%
• Taxi: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%

Driving is 27% more common in Cumberland County than the New Jersey average (89.0% vs 69.9%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Cumberland County: 5.3 times less than the New Jersey average (1.5% vs 8.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Cumberland County: 3.9 times less than the New Jersey average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Cumberland County: 3.1 times less than the New Jersey average (5.4% vs 16.8%).

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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.9%	1.8%	1.3%	2.1%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	92.8%	1.6%	1.5%	2.0%	1.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	92.7%	1.7%	1.7%	2.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	92.4%	1.7%	1.9%	1.9%	1.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	93.0%	1.3%	1.7%	1.8%	1.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	92.3%	1.4%	1.8%	1.9%	2.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	92.6%	1.6%	1.5%	1.8%	2.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	91.4%	1.7%	2.0%	2.0%	2.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2017	91.9%	1.7%	1.5%	1.9%	2.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	91.8%	2.2%	1.5%	1.9%	2.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	92.2%	2.4%	1.2%	1.6%	1.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2020	92.0%	2.9%	1.2%	1.7%	1.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	92.1%	4.1%	0.7%	1.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	91.1%	4.8%	0.6%	1.4%	1.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%
2023	90.8%	4.9%	1.1%	1.1%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	89.0%	5.4%	1.8%	1.5%	1.3%	0.8%	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 2013 at 93.0%. Overall it fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 89.0% in 2024, down 3.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cumberland County: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 5.4% in 2024, up 3.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 1.5% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Cumberland County

• 🐦 Early BirdThe 3rd-earliest start among New Jersey's 21 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 7:34 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 New Jersey for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Cumberland County4.7% New Jersey3.9%	4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cumberland County3.6% New Jersey3.1%	3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cumberland County5.8% New Jersey3.9%	5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cumberland County9.8% New Jersey8.0%	9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cumberland County11.7% New Jersey8.9%	11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cumberland County12.7% New Jersey14.2%	12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cumberland County13.4% New Jersey11.8%	13.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cumberland County11.2% New Jersey14.0%	11.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cumberland County5.7% New Jersey7.6%	5.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cumberland County4.9% New Jersey8.1%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cumberland County1.4% New Jersey3.2%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cumberland County0.9% New Jersey1.5%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cumberland County8.8% New Jersey6.3%	8.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cumberland County5.6% New Jersey5.4%	5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cumberland County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across New Jersey. Early starts are more common than in New Jersey: 14.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush looks much like New Jersey's: 48.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.6%) 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 New Jersey 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Cumberland County	New Jersey	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:34 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cumberland County were on the road by 7:34 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across New Jersey, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Cumberland County now leave 4 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Cumberland County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cumberland County	New Jersey	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.2 min	26.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.4%	16.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	8.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cumberland County is 21.2 minutes, shorter than the 26.2 minutes in New Jersey.

1.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 8.1% in New Jersey. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in New Jersey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau