Adelanto Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Adelanto, California: 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 Adelanto: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Adelanto spend about 91 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 379 hours, about 15.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 94% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 22.0 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Adelanto would save about 152 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $4,701 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)
Adelanto	45.5 min	91.0 min	379 hrs/yr	$11,752	2,103
California	23.5 min	47.0 min	196 hrs/yr	$6,065	2,449
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.

Adelanto Commute Map

On average, it takes 45.5 minutes to get to work in Adelanto. That's 103% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Adelanto

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Adelanto, versus 0.2% in California.

Walking is unusually rare in Adelanto: 3.7 times less than the California average (0.6% vs 2.4%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Adelanto: 5.4 times less than the California average (0.5% vs 2.9%).

Biking is essentially absent in Adelanto, versus 0.7% in California.

Few people walk or bike to work in Adelanto: just 0.6%, 4.8 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Adelanto, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Adelanto 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.6%	3.4%	1.6%	0.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%
2010	91.8%	3.3%	2.2%	0.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2011	91.8%	3.4%	2.4%	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	93.6%	3.4%	0.6%	0.3%	1.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	91.8%	5.3%	0.6%	0.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	91.5%	6.1%	0.8%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.1%	5.3%	0.2%	1.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.1%	8.4%	0.3%	1.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	90.6%	7.0%	0.3%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	92.3%	5.8%	0.3%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	92.7%	5.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	92.5%	6.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	92.7%	5.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	91.0%	6.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.8%	5.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.5%	8.2%	2.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	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 93.6%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 88.5% in 2024, down 4.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Adelanto: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2024, up 4.8 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 1.4% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Walking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Adelanto

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Adelanto?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		16.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		9.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		7.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		4.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		12.5%

Adelanto California Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Adelanto is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.7% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 31.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 28.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.5%) 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 Adelanto, 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 Adelanto 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 Adelanto next to California 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	Adelanto	California	United States
2009	7:01 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:58 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:05 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:07 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:08 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:08 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:04 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:58 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:06 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:08 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Adelanto were on the road by 7:08 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:01 AM). California followed the same path, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Adelanto now leave 30 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 Adelanto has moved 13 minutes earlier.

How does Adelanto's commute time compare?

Metric	Adelanto	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	45.5 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.2%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Adelanto is 45.5 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Adelanto, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Adelanto, CA compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Adelanto, CA	34,052	45.5 min #2/3	8.2% #2/3	7:08 AM #2/3
Victorville, CA	129,417	30.6 min	8.9%	7:21 AM
Phelan, CA	20,302	45.5 min	6.0%	6:27 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Adelanto, California.

Is living in Adelanto, California good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 379 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $11,752 at a typical national wage. That's 94% more than the typical California commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Adelanto, California?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Adelanto, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Adelanto, California?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.5% of commuters use it versus 2.9% in California, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.