Commuting in Cumberland County, 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 Cumberland County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Cumberland County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% less time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 3.7 minutes.
Cumberland County holds about 2.1% of Pennsylvania's population but accounts for roughly 1.7% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Cumberland County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,927 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
18.6 min
37.3 min
155 hrs/yr
$4,817
1,383
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.
On average, it takes
18.6
minutes to get to work in
Cumberland County.
That's 17% 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 17.7% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Cumberland County
Car:
77.0%
Worked at Home:
17.7%
Walked:
3.5%
Other:
0.8%
Bicycle:
0.5%
Public Transportation:
0.2%unusually low
Taxi:
0.2%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Public transit is unusually rare in Cumberland County: 15.6 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.2% vs 3.6%).
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
Other
Bicycle
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
2009
90.1%
3.5%
4.6%
0.4%
0.4%
0.8%
0.0%
0.2%
2010
90.0%
3.8%
4.5%
0.3%
0.4%
0.8%
0.0%
0.2%
2011
90.4%
3.8%
4.1%
0.3%
0.4%
0.7%
0.0%
0.2%
2012
90.6%
3.9%
3.9%
0.3%
0.4%
0.7%
0.0%
0.2%
2013
90.3%
4.2%
3.9%
0.2%
0.5%
0.7%
0.0%
0.2%
2014
90.2%
4.1%
4.1%
0.3%
0.5%
0.7%
0.0%
0.2%
2015
90.6%
3.8%
3.9%
0.3%
0.5%
0.7%
0.0%
0.2%
2016
90.3%
4.0%
3.9%
0.4%
0.6%
0.6%
0.0%
0.2%
2017
90.1%
4.3%
3.8%
0.4%
0.5%
0.7%
0.0%
0.1%
2018
89.9%
4.5%
3.7%
0.5%
0.5%
0.7%
0.1%
0.1%
2019
89.3%
5.1%
3.6%
0.5%
0.5%
0.7%
0.2%
0.1%
2020
86.8%
8.0%
3.3%
0.7%
0.4%
0.6%
0.2%
0.1%
2021
84.5%
10.6%
3.2%
0.6%
0.3%
0.5%
0.2%
0.1%
2022
81.7%
13.0%
3.5%
0.7%
0.4%
0.4%
0.2%
0.1%
2023
79.5%
15.4%
3.4%
0.7%
0.4%
0.4%
0.1%
0.1%
2024
77.0%
17.7%
3.5%
0.8%
0.5%
0.2%
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 90.6%. Overall it fell from 90.1% in 2009 to 77.0% in 2024, down 13.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Cumberland County: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 17.7% in 2024, up 14.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.6% to 3.5% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Cumberland County
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 Pennsylvania for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.
Cumberland CountyPennsylvaniaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Cumberland County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Pennsylvania. Early starts are less common than in Pennsylvania: 12.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush looks much like Pennsylvania's: 48.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.2%) 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 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
Cumberland County
Pennsylvania
United States
2009
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:39 AM
7:39 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:39 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:38 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:38 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:40 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:41 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:42 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Cumberland County were on the road by 7:42 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:37 AM). That goes against the trend across Pennsylvania, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Cumberland County now leave 4 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 5 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
Pennsylvania
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
18.6 min
22.4 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
17.7%
15.6%
15.0%
Walked
3.5%
3.2%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
3.6%
3.2%
The average commute time in Cumberland County is 18.6 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Pennsylvania.
0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.6% in Pennsylvania. 3.5% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in Pennsylvania.
Cumberland County, PA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Cumberland County, PA is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 267,961 residents against a local median of 106,097. The measure that sets Cumberland County, PA apart most is work from home: 17.7%, 51% above the local median of 11.7%.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 18.6 min against a local median of 22.7 min, 18% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 18% below the local median it puts Cumberland County, PA at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 7.4% on work from home, so Cumberland County, PA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Cumberland County, PA has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Is commuting expensive in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania?
Commuters here spend an estimated 155 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,817 at a typical national wage. That's 17% less than the typical Pennsylvania commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. 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.
Do people use public transit in Cumberland County, 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.
Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Pennsylvania?
Among counties in Pennsylvania, the shortest average commutes are in Cameron County (11.4 min), Elk County (15.4 min), McKean County (15.9 min). The longest are in Pike County (32.5 min), Perry County (32.0 min), Carbon County (30.5 min).