Bloomington Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bloomington, 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 Bloomington: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bloomington spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.1 minutes.

Bloomington 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 Bloomington would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,441 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)
Bloomington	23.6 min	47.2 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,103	5,028
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.

Bloomington Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.6 minutes to get to work in Bloomington. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bloomington

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Bloomington: 3.2 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Bloomington: 10.2 times less than the California average (0.3% vs 2.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Bloomington, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bloomington 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	92.4%	3.3%	1.6%	0.7%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.6%	3.1%	1.1%	1.1%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.9%	3.3%	0.9%	0.8%	2.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	91.1%	4.3%	0.9%	0.5%	2.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	90.7%	3.2%	1.3%	0.2%	3.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	91.1%	3.7%	1.4%	0.3%	3.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	92.2%	3.1%	1.5%	0.2%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	92.5%	3.9%	1.4%	0.3%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	90.9%	5.4%	1.5%	0.5%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	90.8%	6.3%	1.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	90.8%	6.3%	1.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	88.7%	7.6%	2.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	89.2%	7.4%	2.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	90.7%	6.3%	2.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	89.0%	7.4%	2.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2024	88.5%	8.0%	2.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 92.6%. Overall it fell from 92.4% in 2009 to 88.5% in 2024, down 3.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bloomington: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 8.0% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Bloomington

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bloomington?

The bars show when commuters in Bloomington 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		19.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		9.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		4.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		5.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bloomington is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 19.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.7% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 36.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 28.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.8%) 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 Bloomington, 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 Bloomington 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 Bloomington 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	Bloomington	California	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:06 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:10 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:06 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:03 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:56 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:56 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:49 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:44 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:41 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bloomington were on the road by 6:41 AM, 32 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:13 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Bloomington now leave 57 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 Bloomington has moved 23 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Bloomington in the whole series.

How does Bloomington's commute time compare?

Metric	Bloomington	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.6 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.0%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bloomington is 23.6 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 2.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bloomington, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Bloomington, CA is the smallest of the 5 cities compared here, 20,369 residents against a local median of 110,827. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Bloomington, CA an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 11% below the local median at 23.6 min against 26.4 min. Bloomington, CA has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Bloomington, CA	20,369	23.6 min #2/5	8.0% #4/5	6:41 AM #1/5
Rialto, CA	109,274	26.6 min	8.1%	7:07 AM
Fontana, CA	212,634	26.3 min	12.8%	7:14 AM
Colton, CA	56,403	22.3 min	8.8%	7:10 AM
Jurupa Valley, CA	112,380	27.4 min	8.0%	7:07 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bloomington, California.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Bloomington, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 197 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,103 at a typical national wage. That's 1% more than the typical California commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Bloomington, California?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Bloomington, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

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

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 2.9% in California, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.