Cerritos Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cerritos: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cerritos spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 239 hours, about 10.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 5.2 minutes.

Cerritos 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 Cerritos would save about 96 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,962 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)
Cerritos	28.7 min	57.3 min	239 hrs/yr	$7,406	4,283
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.

Cerritos Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.7 minutes to get to work in Cerritos. That's 28% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 19.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cerritos

• Car: 78.0%
• Worked at Home: 19.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.9% unusually low
• Other: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Cerritos: 4.9 times less than the California average (0.5% vs 2.4%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Cerritos: 3.0 times less than the California average (0.9% vs 2.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Cerritos: 4.9 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Cerritos: 4.5 times less than the California average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Cerritos: just 0.6%, 4.8 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Cerritos, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cerritos 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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• Worked at Home
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Walked
• Bicycle
• Motorcycle
• Taxi

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	93.3%	2.8%	2.7%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	93.1%	3.4%	2.3%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	93.2%	3.5%	2.1%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.1%	3.4%	2.2%	0.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	92.9%	3.6%	2.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	92.5%	3.9%	2.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	92.3%	3.9%	2.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	91.6%	4.6%	2.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	91.5%	5.0%	2.3%	0.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	91.5%	4.6%	2.6%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	91.1%	5.1%	2.2%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	88.6%	7.9%	1.8%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	84.5%	12.3%	1.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	81.5%	15.1%	1.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2023	80.1%	17.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	78.0%	19.4%	0.9%	0.9%	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. Overall its share fell from 93.3% in 2009 to 78.0% in 2024, down 15.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cerritos: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 19.4% in 2024, up 16.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Cerritos

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cerritos?

The bars show when commuters in Cerritos 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 Cerritos5.1% California6.7%	5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cerritos2.7% California4.5%	2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cerritos4.2% California4.5%	4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cerritos9.8% California8.4%	9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cerritos7.5% California7.5%	7.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cerritos15.9% California13.1%	15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cerritos8.5% California10.2%	8.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cerritos14.4% California12.6%	14.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cerritos4.5% California5.8%	4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cerritos8.9% California8.6%	8.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cerritos2.6% California3.9%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cerritos2.9% California1.8%	2.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cerritos5.7% California6.9%	5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cerritos7.5% California5.5%	7.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cerritos is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 12.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 46.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.6%) 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 Cerritos, 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 Cerritos 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 Cerritos 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.

• Cerritos
• California
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Cerritos	California	United States
2009	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:53 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:56 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:56 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:52 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:54 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:52 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:49 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:50 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:53 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:48 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:47 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:47 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cerritos were on the road by 7:47 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:45 AM). Across California the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Cerritos now leave 10 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Cerritos's commute time compare?

Metric	Cerritos	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.7 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	19.4%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cerritos is 28.7 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau