Chambersburg Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: 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 Chambersburg: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chambersburg spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 112 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% less time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 9.0 minutes.

Chambersburg holds about 0.2% of Pennsylvania's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Chambersburg would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,385 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)
Chambersburg	13.4 min	26.8 min	112 hrs/yr	$3,463	3,155
Pennsylvania	22.4 min	44.7 min	186 hrs/yr	$5,779	1,152
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.

Chambersburg Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.4 minutes to get to work in Chambersburg. That's 40% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chambersburg

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Chambersburg, versus 0.1% in Pennsylvania.

Public transit is unusually rare in Chambersburg: 16.9 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.2% vs 3.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Chambersburg: 4.5 times more than the Pennsylvania average (1.1% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Chambersburg: 7.4 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Chambersburg, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chambersburg 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	Taxi	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	91.9%	2.2%	4.1%	0.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2010	92.1%	2.2%	4.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%
2011	92.4%	2.4%	3.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	93.0%	1.9%	4.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	92.6%	1.6%	4.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2014	91.6%	2.2%	4.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	1.2%	0.0%
2015	89.6%	3.0%	4.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.6%	1.3%	0.1%
2016	90.1%	2.9%	4.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%
2017	90.0%	2.9%	4.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.5%	1.2%	0.1%
2018	89.7%	2.8%	4.4%	0.0%	1.4%	0.5%	1.2%	0.1%
2019	89.9%	2.1%	3.7%	0.0%	3.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	87.8%	5.1%	3.6%	0.5%	2.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	87.4%	5.7%	3.3%	0.9%	2.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	83.3%	7.1%	4.0%	0.9%	4.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	84.2%	7.1%	4.9%	1.0%	2.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	82.6%	9.8%	5.1%	1.1%	1.1%	0.2%	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 2012 at 93.0%. Overall it fell from 91.9% in 2009 to 82.6% in 2024, down 9.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Chambersburg: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 9.8% in 2024, up 7.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.7 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 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Chambersburg

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chambersburg?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		8.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		5.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		13.0%

Chambersburg Pennsylvania Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Chambersburg is 4:00-11:59 PM, when 13.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.9% across Pennsylvania. Early starts are more common than in Pennsylvania: 20.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Pennsylvania: 39.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.8%) 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 Chambersburg, 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 Chambersburg 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 Chambersburg next to Pennsylvania 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	Chambersburg	Pennsylvania	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:49 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:55 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:51 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chambersburg were on the road by 7:30 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). The shift is sharper than across Pennsylvania, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Chambersburg now leave 8 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 Chambersburg has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Chambersburg's commute time compare?

Metric	Chambersburg	Pennsylvania	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.4 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.8%	15.6%	15.0%
Walked	5.1%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	3.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chambersburg is 13.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Pennsylvania.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.6% in Pennsylvania. 5.1% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania?

Commuters here spend an estimated 112 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,463 at a typical national wage. That's 40% less than the typical Pennsylvania commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania?

Traffic peaks between 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 3.6% in Pennsylvania, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.