Folsom Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Folsom, 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 Folsom: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Folsom spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Folsom holds about 0.2% of California's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Folsom would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,365 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)
Folsom	22.9 min	45.8 min	191 hrs/yr	$5,912	4,336
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.

Folsom Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.9 minutes to get to work in Folsom. That's 2% 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 31.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Folsom

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

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Folsom: 36.1 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Folsom: 3.3 times less than the California average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Folsom, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Folsom 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	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	88.0%	7.4%	1.6%	1.4%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	87.0%	8.0%	2.2%	1.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	86.5%	8.0%	2.3%	1.4%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	87.1%	7.4%	2.3%	1.6%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	88.2%	6.4%	2.5%	1.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	88.4%	6.1%	2.6%	1.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	89.0%	6.1%	2.1%	1.2%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	88.3%	7.0%	2.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	86.9%	8.2%	2.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	85.8%	9.4%	1.9%	1.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	84.7%	10.5%	1.6%	1.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	79.2%	16.1%	1.9%	1.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	74.0%	22.0%	1.4%	1.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	70.5%	25.8%	1.3%	1.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	67.5%	28.6%	1.6%	1.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	64.9%	31.1%	1.6%	1.4%	0.8%	0.2%	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 2015 at 89.0%. Overall it fell from 88.0% in 2009 to 64.9% in 2024, down 23.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Folsom: its share of workers rose from 7.4% in 2009 to 31.1% in 2024, up 23.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 20.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit peaked at 2.6% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 1.6%.

Commute Start Times in Folsom

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Folsom?

The bars show when commuters in Folsom 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		2.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Folsom is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 10.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 51.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.0%) 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 Folsom, 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 Folsom 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 Folsom 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	Folsom	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	7:45 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:47 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:50 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:51 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:53 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:50 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:50 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:50 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:53 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:58 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Folsom were on the road by 7:58 AM, 13 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 Folsom now leave 20 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 Folsom has moved 8 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Folsom in the whole series.

How does Folsom's commute time compare?

Metric	Folsom	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.9 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	31.1%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.6%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Folsom is about the same as in California.

1.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Folsom, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Folsom, CA is the largest of the 5 cities compared here, 83,916 residents against a local median of 34,252. The measure that sets Folsom, CA apart most is work from home: 31.1%, 26% above the local median of 24.7%.

The cities themselves spread 10.2% on work from home, so Folsom, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Folsom, CA has the highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Folsom, CA	83,916	22.9 min #2/5	31.1% #1/5	7:58 AM #5/5
Orangevale, CA	35,887	27.7 min	19.0%	7:24 AM
El Dorado Hills, CA	49,876	23.2 min	29.2%	7:53 AM
Granite Bay, CA	20,314	22.3 min	25.6%	7:48 AM
Fair Oaks, CA	32,617	26.4 min	23.8%	7:50 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Folsom, California.

Is living in Folsom, California good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 191 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,912 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical California commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Folsom, California?

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

How much money can remote workers save in Folsom, California?

About 31.1% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Folsom would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,365 at the same national wage assumption used above.