Chino Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Chino, 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 Chino: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chino spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 253 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 6.9 minutes.

Chino holds about 0.2% of California's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Chino would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,143 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)
Chino	30.4 min	60.8 min	253 hrs/yr	$7,857	3,592
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.

Chino Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.4 minutes to get to work in Chino. That's 36% 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 15.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chino

Public transit is unusually rare in Chino: 4.4 times less than the California average (0.6% vs 2.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Chino: 6.5 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Chino, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chino 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	92.8%	3.3%	2.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2010	92.5%	3.5%	1.5%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2011	93.2%	3.7%	0.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2012	92.6%	3.7%	1.4%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	92.5%	3.4%	1.6%	1.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	91.8%	4.2%	1.1%	1.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	91.6%	4.6%	1.5%	1.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	90.7%	5.2%	1.7%	1.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	90.6%	5.5%	1.3%	1.2%	0.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	90.0%	5.9%	1.4%	1.3%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	90.3%	5.6%	1.4%	1.4%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	88.7%	8.3%	0.7%	1.1%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	86.3%	10.9%	0.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	84.0%	13.8%	0.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	83.2%	14.1%	0.7%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	81.5%	15.9%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 93.2%. Overall it fell from 92.8% in 2009 to 81.5% in 2024, down 11.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Chino: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 15.9% in 2024, up 12.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Chino

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chino?

The bars show when commuters in Chino 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		7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chino is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 11.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 20.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 38.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.4%) 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 Chino, 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 Chino 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 Chino 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	Chino	California	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chino were on the road by 7:29 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:23 AM). California followed the same path, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Chino now leave 9 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 Chino has moved 8 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Chino in the whole series.

How does Chino's commute time compare?

Metric	Chino	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.4 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.9%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chino is 30.4 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Chino, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Chino, CA is the 2nd largest of the 5 cities compared here, 95,396 residents against a local median of 63,734. Chino, CA's work from home, at 15.9%, runs 17% above the 13.6% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves spread 12.1% on work from home, so Chino, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Chino, CA has the 3rd highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Chino, CA	95,396	30.4 min #3/5	15.9% #3/5	7:29 AM #3/5
Chino Hills, CA	72,449	32.2 min	18.0%	7:53 AM
Ontario, CA	180,552	25.9 min	9.1%	7:15 AM
Eastvale, CA	55,018	32.1 min	18.1%	7:29 AM
Montclair, CA	38,094	25.9 min	6.0%	7:25 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Chino, California.

Is commuting expensive in Chino, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 253 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,857 at a typical national wage. That's 30% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Chino, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Chino, California?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.6% of commuters use it versus 2.9% in California, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.