Ashland Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Ashland, 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 Ashland: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ashland spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 236 hours, about 9.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 4.9 minutes.

Ashland holds about 0.1% of California's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Ashland would save about 95 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,932 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)
Ashland	28.4 min	56.7 min	236 hrs/yr	$7,330	3,599
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.

Ashland Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.4 minutes to get to work in Ashland. That's 27% longer 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 public transit. About 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ashland

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Ashland: 4.0 times more than the California average (0.8% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Ashland, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ashland 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	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	80.8%	13.1%	1.9%	1.6%	2.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2010	82.4%	11.5%	2.3%	1.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	81.7%	12.3%	3.6%	0.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	81.5%	12.2%	3.6%	0.9%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	82.1%	12.1%	2.8%	1.2%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	80.2%	13.7%	3.1%	1.2%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	79.5%	13.0%	3.5%	2.0%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	79.5%	12.5%	3.3%	2.2%	2.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2017	79.4%	11.7%	3.1%	2.2%	2.7%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2018	80.7%	9.5%	3.6%	2.3%	2.5%	0.2%	1.3%	0.0%
2019	79.5%	8.9%	5.2%	2.1%	2.3%	0.8%	1.2%	0.0%
2020	81.0%	8.9%	4.3%	1.3%	2.2%	0.6%	1.7%	0.0%
2021	81.3%	6.6%	6.4%	1.0%	2.1%	0.8%	1.6%	0.2%
2022	82.4%	4.4%	7.7%	0.9%	1.4%	1.7%	1.4%	0.2%
2023	82.3%	6.4%	7.3%	1.1%	0.6%	1.5%	0.4%	0.3%
2024	80.3%	8.5%	6.9%	1.7%	1.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2010 at 82.4% and lowest in 2017 at 79.4%. Overall it fell from 80.8% in 2009 to 80.3% in 2024, down 0.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ashland: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 5.0 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 13.1% to 8.5% of workers (down 4.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Biking peaked at 1.7% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 0.6%.

Commute Start Times in Ashland

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ashland?

The bars show when commuters in Ashland 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		5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ashland is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 17.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush looks much like California's: 43.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.4%) 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 Ashland, 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 Ashland 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 Ashland 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	Ashland	California	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:45 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ashland were on the road by 7:35 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:23 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Ashland now leave 3 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 Ashland has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Ashland's commute time compare?

Metric	Ashland	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.4 min	23.5 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.9%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	8.5%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ashland is 28.4 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

8.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.9% in California. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Ashland, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Ashland, CA is the smallest of the 5 cities compared here, 22,071 residents against a local median of 72,527. Where Ashland, CA breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 53% below the local median of 14.7% at 6.9%.

The cities themselves spread 12.4% on work from home, so Ashland, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Ashland, CA has the 5th highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Ashland, CA	22,071	28.4 min #2/5	6.9% #5/5	7:35 AM #2/5
San Lorenzo, CA	28,612	27.6 min	8.6%	7:45 AM
San Leandro, CA	87,097	30.5 min	15.6%	7:47 AM
Castro Valley, CA	57,957	30.0 min	21.0%	8:01 AM
Hayward, CA	153,435	30.8 min	13.7%	7:29 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Ashland, California.

Is commuting expensive in Ashland, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 236 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,330 at a typical national wage. That's 21% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Ashland, California. 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.