Claremont Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Claremont: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Claremont spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 185 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Claremont 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 Claremont would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,297 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)
Claremont	22.2 min	44.5 min	185 hrs/yr	$5,743	2,452
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.

Claremont Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.2 minutes to get to work in Claremont. That's 1% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Claremont

• Car: 62.2%
• Worked at Home: 24.8%
• Walked: 9.8% unusually high
• Other: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 1.3%
• Bicycle: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Claremont, versus 0.2% in California.

Walking is unusually common in Claremont: 4.1 times more than the California average (9.8% vs 2.4%).

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

Claremont stands out for active commuting: 10.3% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.4 times the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Claremont, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Claremont 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	76.9%	8.0%	10.1%	0.5%	2.7%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	74.7%	8.0%	10.4%	0.5%	4.3%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	75.6%	7.0%	10.1%	0.2%	5.0%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	75.5%	6.4%	10.6%	0.2%	4.8%	2.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2013	76.0%	7.7%	9.5%	0.4%	4.1%	1.9%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	76.2%	7.6%	9.0%	0.5%	4.1%	2.1%	0.1%	0.5%
2015	75.9%	8.5%	8.6%	0.5%	3.4%	2.3%	0.1%	0.6%
2016	75.6%	8.0%	9.5%	0.8%	3.2%	2.2%	0.1%	0.6%
2017	74.2%	8.8%	9.8%	1.0%	3.5%	1.9%	0.1%	0.7%
2018	75.2%	7.9%	9.6%	0.9%	3.7%	2.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	75.3%	7.9%	10.2%	1.0%	3.6%	1.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	71.9%	13.0%	9.1%	1.3%	3.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	67.5%	19.9%	7.3%	1.1%	2.4%	1.6%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	66.9%	21.5%	7.6%	1.0%	1.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	65.1%	22.1%	9.1%	1.6%	1.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	62.2%	24.8%	9.8%	1.5%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 76.9% in 2009 to 62.2% in 2024, down 14.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Claremont: its share of workers rose from 8.0% in 2009 to 24.8% in 2024, up 16.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.3% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Claremont

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Claremont?

The bars show when commuters in Claremont 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 Claremont4.6% California6.7%	4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Claremont3.6% California4.5%	3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Claremont5.2% California4.5%	5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Claremont6.1% California8.4%	6.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Claremont5.9% California7.5%	5.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Claremont11.3% California13.1%	11.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Claremont12.9% California10.2%	12.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Claremont11.3% California12.6%	11.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Claremont5.5% California5.8%	5.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Claremont9.4% California8.6%	9.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Claremont4.9% California3.9%	4.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Claremont4.6% California1.8%	4.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Claremont9.5% California6.9%	9.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Claremont5.4% California5.5%	5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Claremont is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 12.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 13.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 41.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (33.7%) 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 Claremont, 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 Claremont 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 Claremont 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.

• Claremont
• California
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Claremont	California	United States
2009	7:59 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:05 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:06 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:03 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:02 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:57 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:02 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:02 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:59 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:59 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:02 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:55 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:50 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:56 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:58 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:01 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Claremont were on the road by 8:01 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:59 AM). Across California the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Claremont now leave 23 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Claremont's commute time compare?

Metric	Claremont	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.2 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	24.8%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	9.8%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Claremont is 22.2 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 9.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau