Apple Valley Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Apple Valley: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Apple Valley spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 213 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

Apple Valley holds about 0.2% of California's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Apple Valley would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,645 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)
Apple Valley	25.6 min	51.2 min	213 hrs/yr	$6,611	3,450
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.

Apple Valley Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.6 minutes to get to work in Apple Valley. That's 14% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 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 Apple Valley

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

Walking is unusually rare in Apple Valley: 4.0 times less than the California average (0.6% vs 2.4%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Apple Valley: 6.0 times less than the California average (0.5% vs 2.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Apple Valley: 132.9 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is essentially absent in Apple Valley, versus 0.7% in California.

Few people walk or bike to work in Apple Valley: just 0.6%, 5.1 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Apple Valley, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Apple Valley 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	90.4%	4.9%	2.0%	0.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	90.9%	4.9%	1.8%	0.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	89.4%	6.2%	1.8%	0.6%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	90.4%	6.1%	1.1%	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	89.6%	5.9%	1.2%	1.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2014	90.9%	5.5%	0.7%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2015	91.3%	5.6%	0.4%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2016	90.2%	5.7%	0.4%	1.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%
2017	91.2%	5.2%	0.6%	1.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2018	91.9%	5.0%	0.8%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	92.0%	5.3%	0.8%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	91.3%	5.8%	0.8%	0.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.9%	6.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.7%	7.5%	1.7%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.7%	8.6%	1.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.5%	9.8%	1.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	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 2019 at 92.0%. Overall it fell from 90.4% in 2009 to 87.5% in 2024, down 2.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Apple Valley: its share of workers rose from 4.9% in 2009 to 9.8% in 2024, up 4.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.5% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 1.7% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.6%.

Commute Start Times in Apple Valley

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Apple Valley?

The bars show when commuters in Apple Valley 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		13.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		6.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Apple Valley is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 13.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.7% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 25.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 37.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.1%) 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 Apple Valley, 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 Apple Valley 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 Apple Valley 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	Apple Valley	California	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 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	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Apple Valley were on the road by 7:21 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:17 AM). Across California the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Apple Valley now leave 17 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 Apple Valley has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Apple Valley's commute time compare?

Metric	Apple Valley	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.6 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.8%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Apple Valley is 25.6 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

Apple Valley, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Apple Valley, CA is the 3rd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 71,935 residents against a local median of 96,827. Where Apple Valley, CA breaks from the cities next to it is one-way commute, sitting 23% below the local median of 33.1 min at 25.6 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The cities themselves spread 14.9 min on one-way commute, so Apple Valley, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Apple Valley, CA has the lowest one-way commute of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Apple Valley, CA	71,935	25.6 min #1/4	9.8% #1/4	7:21 AM #3/4
Victorville, CA	129,417	30.6 min	8.9%	7:21 AM
Hesperia, CA	96,827	33.1 min	9.5%	7:05 AM
Adelanto, CA	34,052	45.5 min	8.2%	7:08 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Apple Valley, California.

Is commuting expensive in Apple Valley, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 213 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,611 at a typical national wage. That's 9% more than the typical California commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Apple Valley, California?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Apple Valley, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Apple Valley, 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.