Cudahy Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Cudahy, 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 Cudahy: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cudahy spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 251 hours, about 10.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 6.6 minutes.

Cudahy 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 Cudahy would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,108 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)
Cudahy	30.1 min	60.1 min	251 hrs/yr	$7,769	5,957
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.

Cudahy Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.1 minutes to get to work in Cudahy. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 4.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cudahy

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Cudahy: 3.9 times less than the California average (4.4% vs 17.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Cudahy, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cudahy 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	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	83.4%	8.5%	2.0%	4.6%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	84.0%	8.2%	2.0%	4.4%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	84.5%	7.4%	2.5%	4.1%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	84.5%	7.1%	3.1%	3.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	85.5%	7.2%	2.4%	3.3%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%
2014	86.5%	5.5%	3.0%	2.9%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	84.7%	6.4%	3.4%	3.5%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	84.1%	6.4%	3.0%	3.9%	1.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	85.4%	6.0%	2.5%	3.5%	1.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	85.1%	6.5%	2.9%	2.7%	1.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	85.4%	7.7%	2.1%	2.5%	1.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2020	85.6%	7.3%	2.5%	2.4%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	87.1%	6.4%	3.1%	1.6%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
2022	85.5%	7.6%	3.4%	1.6%	1.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	86.0%	6.6%	3.6%	2.0%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	86.5%	5.0%	4.4%	2.2%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2021 at 87.1%. Overall it rose from 83.4% in 2009 to 86.5% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cudahy: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 4.4% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 8.5% to 5.0% of workers (down 3.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Cudahy

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cudahy?

The bars show when commuters in Cudahy 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		10.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		8.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		5.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		12.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cudahy is 12:00-3:59 PM, when 12.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.9% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 27.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 32.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.7%) 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 Cudahy, 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 Cudahy 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 Cudahy 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	Cudahy	California	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:10 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:12 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:09 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:06 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:02 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:02 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:04 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:09 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:08 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:10 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cudahy were on the road by 7:09 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:10 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Cudahy now leave 29 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 Cudahy has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Cudahy's commute time compare?

Metric	Cudahy	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.1 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.4%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	5.0%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cudahy is 30.1 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

5.0% 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

Cudahy, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Cudahy, CA is the smallest of the 6 cities compared here, 21,960 residents against a local median of 38,229. The measure that sets Cudahy, CA apart most is work from home: 4.4%, 21% below the local median of 5.6%.

The cities themselves spread 2.7% on work from home, so Cudahy, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Cudahy, CA has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Cudahy, CA	21,960	30.1 min #2/6	4.4% #4/6	7:09 AM #3/6
Bell, CA	33,319	30.5 min	4.3%	7:04 AM
South Gate, CA	90,685	30.9 min	7.0%	7:18 AM
Maywood, CA	22,721	30.3 min	4.4%	7:08 AM
Bell Gardens, CA	38,229	26.6 min	5.6%	7:10 AM
Huntington Park, CA	53,550	31.0 min	5.8%	7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cudahy, California.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 251 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,769 at a typical national wage. That's 28% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM in Cudahy, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.