Calaveras County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Calaveras County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Calaveras County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 254 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 7.0 minutes.

Calaveras County holds about 0.1% of California's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Calaveras County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,152 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)
Calaveras County	30.5 min	61.0 min	254 hrs/yr	$7,881	989
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.

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On average, it takes 30.5 minutes to get to work in Calaveras County. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in California

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 15.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Calaveras County

• Car: 79.2%
• Worked at Home: 15.9%
• Walked: 2.3%
• Other: 1.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Calaveras County: 5.7 times less than the California average (0.5% vs 2.9%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Calaveras County, versus 0.2% in California.

Biking is unusually rare in Calaveras County: 6.3 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Calaveras County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Calaveras County 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	89.5%	6.3%	2.1%	0.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	87.7%	7.7%	2.6%	0.6%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	88.7%	7.1%	2.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	88.8%	6.3%	3.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	90.4%	5.6%	2.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	89.0%	7.1%	2.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	89.5%	7.5%	1.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	88.5%	7.7%	1.9%	0.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	88.9%	8.3%	1.2%	0.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	86.6%	9.7%	1.8%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	87.5%	9.8%	1.3%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	86.3%	10.8%	1.4%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	85.3%	11.7%	1.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	82.9%	13.5%	2.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	80.8%	14.1%	2.3%	1.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	79.2%	15.9%	2.3%	1.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 90.4%. Overall it fell from 89.5% in 2009 to 79.2% in 2024, down 10.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Calaveras County: its share of workers rose from 6.3% in 2009 to 15.9% in 2024, up 9.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 3.4% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 2.3%.

Commute Start Times in Calaveras County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Calaveras County?

The bars show when commuters in Calaveras County 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	12:00-4:59 AM Calaveras County11.1% California6.7%	11.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Calaveras County2.7% California4.5%	2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Calaveras County5.9% California4.5%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Calaveras County10.9% California8.4%	10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Calaveras County8.1% California7.5%	8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Calaveras County20.9% California13.1%	20.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Calaveras County8.6% California10.2%	8.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Calaveras County9.2% California12.6%	9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Calaveras County2.7% California5.8%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Calaveras County6.4% California8.6%	6.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Calaveras County4.7% California3.9%	4.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Calaveras County1.9% California1.8%	1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Calaveras County3.7% California6.9%	3.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Calaveras County3.0% California5.5%	3.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Calaveras County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 19.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 46.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 Calaveras County, 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 Calaveras County 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 Calaveras County 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Calaveras County	California	United States
2009	7:23 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	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:17 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Calaveras County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Calaveras County now leave 22 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Calaveras County's commute time compare?

Metric	Calaveras County	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.5 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.9%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Calaveras County is 30.5 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 2.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau