Concord Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Concord, 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 Concord: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Concord spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 227 hours, about 9.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 3.7 minutes.

Concord holds about 0.3% of California's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Concord would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,813 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)
Concord	27.2 min	54.4 min	227 hrs/yr	$7,033	5,184
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.

Concord Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.2 minutes to get to work in Concord. That's 21% 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 17.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Concord

Commute Mode Trends in Concord, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Concord 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	81.4%	4.0%	9.7%	2.9%	0.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	81.0%	4.3%	10.0%	2.6%	1.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	81.4%	4.3%	9.9%	2.3%	1.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	81.7%	4.1%	9.9%	2.0%	1.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	82.1%	3.7%	10.1%	1.8%	1.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	82.0%	3.8%	10.0%	1.8%	1.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	81.4%	4.2%	10.3%	1.9%	1.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	80.5%	3.9%	10.4%	2.3%	1.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%
2017	80.3%	3.9%	10.3%	2.5%	1.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	78.7%	4.6%	11.1%	2.7%	1.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%
2019	78.0%	5.0%	11.9%	2.1%	1.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%
2020	76.3%	7.3%	11.4%	2.2%	1.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%
2021	74.3%	11.5%	10.1%	1.7%	1.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%
2022	72.5%	13.6%	9.0%	2.1%	1.3%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%
2023	72.4%	15.0%	7.4%	2.1%	1.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%
2024	72.0%	17.4%	6.0%	2.2%	1.4%	0.6%	0.3%	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 82.1%. Overall it fell from 81.4% in 2009 to 72.0% in 2024, down 9.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 11 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Concord: its share of workers rose from 4.0% in 2009 to 17.4% in 2024, up 13.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 9.7% to 6.0% of workers (down 3.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Concord

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Concord?

The bars show when commuters in Concord 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		6.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Concord is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 14.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 45.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.3%) 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 Concord, 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 Concord 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 Concord 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	Concord	California	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:42 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Concord were on the road by 7:42 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:38 AM). California followed the same path, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Concord now leave 4 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 Concord has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Concord's commute time compare?

Metric	Concord	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.2 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	17.4%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	6.0%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Concord is 27.2 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

6.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.9% in California. 2.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Concord, California.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Concord, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 227 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,033 at a typical national wage. That's 16% more than the typical California commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Concord, California?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Concord, 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.