Danville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Danville, 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 Danville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Danville spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 228 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 3.9 minutes.

Danville 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 Danville would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,824 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)
Danville	27.3 min	54.7 min	228 hrs/yr	$7,061	4,562
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.

Danville Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.3 minutes to get to work in Danville. That's 22% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 37.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Danville

Driving is 24% less common in Danville than the California average (56.8% vs 75.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Danville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Danville 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	82.0%	10.7%	4.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	82.0%	10.0%	5.8%	1.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	82.8%	9.4%	5.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	83.1%	9.3%	5.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	83.8%	9.1%	5.1%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	83.3%	9.0%	5.5%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	82.8%	9.8%	5.2%	0.9%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	81.8%	9.8%	6.0%	0.9%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	81.7%	9.8%	5.9%	1.0%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	80.9%	10.2%	6.7%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	81.1%	10.1%	6.4%	1.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	74.3%	18.2%	5.2%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	67.5%	26.1%	4.0%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	63.8%	30.9%	3.0%	1.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	60.6%	32.7%	3.7%	2.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	56.8%	37.1%	3.3%	1.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 83.8%. Overall it fell from 82.0% in 2009 to 56.8% in 2024, down 25.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Danville: its share of workers rose from 10.7% in 2009 to 37.1% in 2024, up 26.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 27.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 4.9% to 3.3% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Danville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Danville?

The bars show when commuters in Danville 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		2.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		12.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Danville is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 8.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 50.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.4%) 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 Danville, 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 Danville 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 Danville 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	Danville	California	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:46 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:46 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:50 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:55 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:56 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:56 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:00 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:57 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:58 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:57 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:02 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:00 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:00 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:00 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Danville were on the road by 8:00 AM, 16 minutes later than in 2009 (7:44 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Danville now leave 22 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 Danville has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Danville's commute time compare?

Metric	Danville	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.3 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	37.1%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.3%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Danville is 27.3 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

3.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.9% in California. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Danville, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Danville, CA compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Danville, CA	39,870	27.3 min #1/2	37.1% #1/2	8:00 AM #1/2
San Ramon, CA	76,435	27.9 min	33.2%	8:08 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Danville, California.

Is commuting expensive in Danville, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 228 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,061 at a typical national wage. That's 16% more than the typical California commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Danville, California?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Danville, 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.

Is Danville, California a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 37.1% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Danville would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,824 at the same national wage assumption used above.