Delano Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Delano: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Delano spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 144 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 6.2 minutes.

Delano 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 Delano would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,785 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)
Delano	17.3 min	34.6 min	144 hrs/yr	$4,464	1,136
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.

Delano Commute Map

On average, it takes 17.3 minutes to get to work in Delano. That's 23% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Delano

• Car: 95.5% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 3.1% unusually low
• Walked: 0.8%
• Other: 0.4%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 27% more common in Delano than the California average (95.5% vs 75.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Delano: 61.0 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 2.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Delano: 5.3 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Delano: 5.5 times less than the California average (3.1% vs 17.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Delano: 7.3 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Delano: just 0.9%, 3.3 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Delano, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Delano 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.1%	2.3%	2.6%	3.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	94.3%	2.1%	1.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	94.7%	2.1%	2.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.7%	2.1%	1.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.8%	1.7%	1.3%	1.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.4%	0.9%	1.6%	2.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.7%	0.8%	1.0%	3.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	95.1%	0.8%	0.6%	3.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	95.6%	0.7%	0.8%	2.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	96.1%	0.6%	0.8%	2.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	97.0%	0.6%	0.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	97.2%	1.1%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	95.8%	2.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	96.3%	2.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.8%	2.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	95.5%	3.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	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 2020 at 97.2%. Overall it rose from 91.1% in 2009 to 95.5% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Delano: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 3.1% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 0.8% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

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

Commute Start Times in Delano

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Delano?

The bars show when commuters in Delano 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 Delano5.7% California6.7%	5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Delano9.5% California4.5%	9.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Delano7.6% California4.5%	7.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Delano24.9% California8.4%	24.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Delano7.6% California7.5%	7.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Delano10.7% California13.1%	10.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Delano9.1% California10.2%	9.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Delano7.4% California12.6%	7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Delano1.3% California5.8%	1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Delano1.2% California8.6%	1.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Delano1.4% California3.9%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Delano0.4% California1.8%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Delano7.4% California6.9%	7.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Delano5.8% California5.5%	5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Delano is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 24.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.4% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 22.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 34.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.2%) 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 Delano, 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 Delano 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 Delano 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.

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• California
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Delano	California	United States
2009	6:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:44 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:43 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:29 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:30 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:28 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:29 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:30 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:30 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Delano were on the road by 6:39 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across California, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Delano now leave 59 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 Delano has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Delano's commute time compare?

Metric	Delano	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.3 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	3.1%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Delano is 17.3 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau