Chino Hills Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Chino Hills, 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 Hills: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chino Hills spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 268 hours, about 11.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 37% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 8.7 minutes.

Chino Hills 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 Hills would save about 107 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,325 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 Hills	32.2 min	64.4 min	268 hrs/yr	$8,314	3,903
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 Hills Commute Map

On average, it takes 32.2 minutes to get to work in Chino Hills. That's 44% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 18.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chino Hills

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

Biking is unusually rare in Chino Hills: 13.9 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Chino Hills: just 0.9%, 3.3 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Chino Hills, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chino Hills 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.1%	4.4%	0.3%	0.6%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.4%	4.4%	0.2%	0.8%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	92.0%	4.6%	0.2%	0.8%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	92.4%	4.1%	0.2%	0.8%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%
2013	92.3%	4.3%	0.3%	0.8%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2014	91.7%	4.9%	0.3%	0.5%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%
2015	92.1%	5.0%	0.2%	0.6%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	91.9%	5.1%	0.5%	0.5%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	91.4%	5.7%	0.5%	0.5%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.4%	5.8%	0.9%	0.3%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.8%	5.5%	1.2%	0.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	88.3%	9.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	84.8%	12.5%	1.0%	0.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	82.7%	14.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	81.2%	15.7%	1.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	79.2%	18.0%	1.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 79.2% in 2024, down 13.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Chino Hills: its share of workers rose from 4.4% in 2009 to 18.0% in 2024, up 13.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Chino Hills

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chino Hills?

The bars show when commuters in Chino Hills 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		4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chino Hills is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 13.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 13.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush looks much like California's: 43.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (28.8%) 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 Chino Hills, 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 Hills 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 Hills 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 Hills	California	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:49 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:54 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chino Hills were on the road by 7:54 AM, 25 minutes later than in 2009 (7:29 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Chino Hills now leave 16 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 Chino Hills has moved 29 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Chino Hills in the whole series.

How does Chino Hills's commute time compare?

Metric	Chino Hills	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.2 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	18.0%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chino Hills is 32.2 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.5% 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 Hills, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Chino Hills, CA is the 3rd largest of the 6 cities compared here, 72,449 residents against a local median of 61,829. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Chino Hills, CA an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 13% above the local median at 18.0% against 15.9%. Chino Hills, CA has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Chino Hills, CA	72,449	32.2 min #6/6	18.0% #3/6	7:53 AM #5/6
Chino, CA	95,396	30.4 min	15.9%	7:29 AM
Yorba Linda, CA	61,829	28.4 min	20.6%	7:53 AM
Diamond Bar, CA	46,382	31.4 min	18.4%	8:14 AM
Pomona, CA	148,496	28.2 min	9.2%	7:27 AM
Montclair, CA	38,094	25.9 min	6.0%	7:25 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Chino Hills, California.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Chino Hills, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 268 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,314 at a typical national wage. That's 37% more than the typical California commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Chino Hills, California?

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

How common is public transit use in Chino Hills, California?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.5% of commuters use it versus 2.9% in California, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.