Arden-Arcade Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Arden-Arcade, 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 Arden-Arcade: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Arden-Arcade spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 187 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Arden-Arcade 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 Arden-Arcade would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,317 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)
Arden-Arcade	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,792	4,764
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.

Arden-Arcade Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.4 minutes to get to work in Arden-Arcade. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 18.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Arden-Arcade

Commute Mode Trends in Arden-Arcade, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Arden-Arcade 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.2%	3.8%	3.0%	1.1%	3.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	86.7%	4.6%	2.7%	0.9%	3.0%	1.6%	0.1%	0.4%
2011	86.4%	4.8%	2.5%	0.7%	3.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	85.7%	5.5%	2.5%	0.5%	3.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	85.3%	5.8%	2.7%	0.3%	3.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	85.2%	5.8%	2.7%	0.4%	3.6%	1.8%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	85.4%	5.6%	3.0%	0.5%	3.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	85.9%	5.5%	2.7%	0.6%	3.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	86.7%	5.2%	2.2%	0.6%	3.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	86.9%	5.4%	2.0%	1.1%	2.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	86.7%	5.7%	2.0%	1.3%	3.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	84.5%	8.9%	1.7%	1.3%	2.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	81.1%	11.9%	1.7%	2.2%	2.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	79.0%	14.2%	1.9%	2.4%	1.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	76.7%	16.3%	2.0%	2.3%	1.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	74.0%	18.7%	2.4%	2.4%	1.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 87.2% in 2009 to 74.0% in 2024, down 13.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Arden-Arcade: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 18.7% in 2024, up 14.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 1.6% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Arden-Arcade

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Arden-Arcade?

The bars show when commuters in Arden-Arcade 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		6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Arden-Arcade is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 13.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 13.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush looks much like California's: 45.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.9%) 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 Arden-Arcade, 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 Arden-Arcade 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 Arden-Arcade 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	Arden-Arcade	California	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:47 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:49 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:54 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:49 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:47 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:43 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:46 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:49 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:50 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Arden-Arcade were on the road by 7:50 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:44 AM). California followed the same path, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Arden-Arcade now leave 12 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 Arden-Arcade has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Arden-Arcade's commute time compare?

Metric	Arden-Arcade	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.4 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	18.7%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.6%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Arden-Arcade is 22.4 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Arden-Arcade, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Arden-Arcade, CA is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 92,545 residents against a local median of 42,311. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Arden-Arcade, CA an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 2% below the local median at 22.4 min against 22.9 min. Arden-Arcade, CA has the lowest one-way commute of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Arden-Arcade, CA	92,545	22.4 min #1/4	18.7% #2/4	7:50 AM #4/4
Rosemont, CA	25,260	22.9 min	18.6%	7:40 AM
Carmichael, CA	76,270	22.8 min	20.1%	7:48 AM
North Highlands, CA	42,311	26.3 min	12.6%	7:39 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Arden-Arcade, California.

Is commuting expensive in Arden-Arcade, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 187 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,792 at a typical national wage. That's 5% less than the typical California commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Arden-Arcade, California?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Arden-Arcade, California. 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.