Colton Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Colton, 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 Colton: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Colton spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 186 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.

Colton 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 Colton would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,306 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)
Colton	22.3 min	44.6 min	186 hrs/yr	$5,764	2,935
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.

Colton Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.3 minutes to get to work in Colton. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Colton

Biking is unusually rare in Colton: 3.9 times less than the California average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Colton, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Colton 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.4%	2.4%	0.7%	2.5%	2.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%
2010	91.6%	2.1%	0.7%	2.5%	2.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.6%
2011	91.5%	2.3%	0.8%	2.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.7%
2012	92.2%	2.0%	0.9%	2.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.7%
2013	93.0%	2.2%	0.9%	2.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2014	92.8%	2.8%	1.1%	1.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	92.1%	3.5%	1.1%	1.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	92.4%	3.6%	0.8%	1.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	91.9%	4.3%	0.8%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	90.5%	5.7%	0.8%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	91.0%	5.3%	0.7%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	87.7%	8.4%	0.8%	1.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	87.2%	8.9%	1.2%	1.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	87.2%	9.2%	1.1%	0.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2023	87.3%	8.2%	2.0%	1.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2024	86.7%	8.8%	1.4%	1.3%	1.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 93.0%. Overall it fell from 91.4% in 2009 to 86.7% in 2024, down 4.7 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Colton: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 8.8% in 2024, up 6.4 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.3% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2014 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Colton

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Colton?

The bars show when commuters in Colton 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		12.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		6.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Colton is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 12.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.7% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 28.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 33.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.0%) 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 Colton, 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 Colton 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 Colton 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	Colton	California	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 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	7:23 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:10 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:12 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Colton were on the road by 7:10 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Colton now leave 28 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 Colton has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Colton's commute time compare?

Metric	Colton	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.3 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 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	8.8%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Colton is 22.3 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Colton, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Colton, CA is the 2nd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 56,403 residents against a local median of 21,884. Nothing separates Colton, 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 work from home, 8% above the local median at 8.8% against 8.1%. Colton, CA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Colton, CA	56,403	22.3 min #2/4	8.8% #2/4	7:10 AM #3/4
Bloomington, CA	20,369	23.6 min	8.0%	6:41 AM
Loma Linda, CA	21,884	16.5 min	10.7%	7:54 AM
Rialto, CA	109,274	26.6 min	8.1%	7:07 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Colton, California.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 186 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,764 at a typical national wage. That's 5% less than the typical California commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Colton, California?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Colton, 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.