Belmont Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Belmont, 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 Belmont: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Belmont spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 212 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Belmont 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 Belmont would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,627 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)
Belmont	25.4 min	50.8 min	212 hrs/yr	$6,567	3,721
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.

Belmont Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.4 minutes to get to work in Belmont. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 33.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Belmont

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Belmont: 8.8 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Driving is 23% less common in Belmont than the California average (58.2% vs 75.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Belmont: 6884.7 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Belmont, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Belmont 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	83.1%	6.8%	5.2%	2.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.6%
2010	82.4%	6.9%	5.8%	3.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.6%
2011	84.3%	6.1%	4.9%	3.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	82.2%	8.5%	5.4%	2.1%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	82.0%	9.2%	5.1%	1.6%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	83.6%	7.7%	5.3%	1.4%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	82.8%	7.6%	6.0%	1.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	83.0%	7.1%	6.2%	1.5%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	84.1%	5.2%	6.5%	1.6%	1.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	84.5%	4.6%	6.8%	1.6%	1.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	83.1%	5.9%	6.9%	2.0%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	75.5%	14.0%	6.6%	2.2%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.8%
2021	67.5%	22.1%	6.4%	1.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.7%
2022	62.1%	27.9%	5.7%	2.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%
2023	60.3%	30.9%	4.3%	2.6%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2024	58.2%	33.5%	4.8%	2.1%	0.9%	0.6%	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 2018 at 84.5%. Overall it fell from 83.1% in 2009 to 58.2% in 2024, down 24.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Belmont: its share of workers rose from 6.8% in 2009 to 33.5% in 2024, up 26.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 27.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.8% to 2.1% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Biking overtook taking a taxi to become the 6th most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 6.9% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 4.8%.

Commute Start Times in Belmont

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Belmont?

The bars show when commuters in Belmont 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		1.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		5.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		18.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		10.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		18.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Belmont is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 4.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 48.7% 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 Belmont, 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 Belmont 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 Belmont 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	Belmont	California	United States
2009	8:08 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:07 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:08 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:06 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:08 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:09 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:09 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:09 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:08 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:08 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:10 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:06 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:15 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Belmont were on the road by 8:15 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (8:08 AM). California followed the same path, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Belmont now leave 37 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 Belmont has moved 6 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Belmont in the whole series.

How does Belmont's commute time compare?

Metric	Belmont	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.4 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	09:00 AM – 09:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	33.5%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.8%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Belmont is 25.4 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

4.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.9% in California. 2.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Belmont, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Belmont, CA	24,586	25.4 min #3/3	33.5% #2/3	8:14 AM #3/3
San Carlos, CA	27,659	22.1 min	34.9%	8:12 AM
San Mateo, CA	101,951	23.2 min	24.7%	8:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Belmont, California.

Is commuting expensive in Belmont, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 212 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,567 at a typical national wage. That's 8% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Belmont, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is Belmont, California a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 33.5% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Belmont would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,627 at the same national wage assumption used above.