College Park Commutes Rank in Top Quarter of MD Small Communities, Bottom 40 Percent Nationwide

When College Park-ian Arash Komaee, a research associate at the Department of Bioengineering for the University of Maryland, drives to work, it takes him just five minutes to get there.

He’s in the minority of College Park commuters though, where only 31.8 percent of residents travel less than 15 minutes to their jobs, according to U.S. Census Bureau’s 2009 American Community Survey. Nationwide, only 28.7 percent of commuters drive less than 15 minutes to work.

Although College Park ranks 1,795 out of 3,012 small communities included in the survey nationwide (the bottom 40 percent), College Park ranks 24th out of 108 Maryland small communities.

The Business Journals compared the College Park data, and applied its own point system, to rank the city in the bottom 40.4 percent of nationwide commutes for small communities. Check out the data here.

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include College Park's rank among other small communities in Maryland. The headline has also been altered to more accurately reflect the status of College Park commutes as compared to other small communities in the state and country.