Citrus Heights Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Citrus Heights, 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 Citrus Heights: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Citrus Heights spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 194 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Citrus Heights holds about 0.2% of California's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Citrus Heights would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,406 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)
Citrus Heights	23.3 min	46.6 min	194 hrs/yr	$6,014	5,276
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.

Citrus Heights Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.3 minutes to get to work in Citrus Heights. That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 17.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Citrus Heights

Commute Mode Trends in Citrus Heights, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Citrus Heights 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	90.4%	4.2%	1.3%	0.8%	2.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%
2010	90.7%	4.0%	1.4%	0.9%	2.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	90.5%	4.0%	1.7%	0.8%	2.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	90.8%	3.8%	2.0%	0.8%	2.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	91.0%	3.4%	2.1%	0.6%	2.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	90.9%	3.3%	2.2%	0.5%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	91.1%	3.5%	2.2%	0.6%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	90.3%	4.0%	1.7%	0.8%	2.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.6%
2017	89.8%	4.4%	1.7%	0.8%	1.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.8%
2018	89.8%	5.2%	1.6%	0.8%	1.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.8%
2019	89.0%	5.7%	1.6%	0.8%	1.5%	0.2%	0.2%	1.0%
2020	86.6%	8.6%	1.5%	0.7%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.7%
2021	84.4%	11.4%	1.5%	0.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.6%
2022	82.6%	13.8%	0.9%	0.8%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2023	80.1%	15.6%	1.2%	1.0%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2024	78.1%	17.0%	1.7%	1.3%	1.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 91.1%. Overall it fell from 90.4% in 2009 to 78.1% in 2024, down 12.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Citrus Heights: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 17.0% in 2024, up 12.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 1.2% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Citrus Heights

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Citrus Heights?

The bars show when commuters in Citrus Heights 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		5.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Citrus Heights is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 14.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush looks much like California's: 44.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.7%) 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 Citrus Heights, 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 Citrus Heights 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 Citrus Heights 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	Citrus Heights	California	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Citrus Heights were on the road by 7:39 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Across California the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Citrus Heights now leave 1 minute 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 Citrus Heights has moved 6 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Citrus Heights in the whole series.

How does Citrus Heights's commute time compare?

Metric	Citrus Heights	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.3 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	17.0%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.2%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Citrus Heights is about the same as in California.

1.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Citrus Heights, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Citrus Heights, CA is the largest of the 6 cities compared here, 86,009 residents against a local median of 35,887. Nothing separates Citrus Heights, CA sharply from the cities around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 12% below the local median at 23.3 min against 26.4 min. Citrus Heights, CA has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Citrus Heights, CA	86,009	23.3 min #2/6	17.0% #4/6	7:39 AM #3/6
Fair Oaks, CA	32,617	26.4 min	23.8%	7:50 AM
Foothill Farms, CA	35,501	23.5 min	12.7%	7:42 AM
Orangevale, CA	35,887	27.7 min	19.0%	7:24 AM
Carmichael, CA	76,270	22.8 min	20.1%	7:48 AM
Antelope, CA	49,393	27.0 min	17.0%	7:32 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Citrus Heights, California.

Is living in Citrus Heights, California good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 194 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,014 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical California commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Citrus Heights, California?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Citrus Heights, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.