Glendora Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Glendora, 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 Glendora: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Glendora spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 7.2 minutes.

Glendora holds about 0.1% of California's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Glendora would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,173 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)
Glendora	30.7 min	61.4 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,934	3,113
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.

Glendora Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.7 minutes to get to work in Glendora. That's 37% 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 17.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Glendora

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Glendora: 422.8 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Glendora: 8.4 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Glendora, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Glendora 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Other	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	88.9%	3.8%	2.4%	3.3%	0.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%
2010	88.5%	4.8%	2.2%	3.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	89.8%	3.7%	3.1%	2.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	90.2%	3.6%	2.9%	2.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	89.3%	3.7%	3.2%	2.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	89.5%	3.7%	3.1%	2.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	88.4%	4.1%	3.4%	2.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	87.4%	5.0%	3.3%	2.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	87.6%	4.4%	3.4%	3.1%	0.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	86.7%	4.7%	3.8%	3.2%	0.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	85.6%	5.1%	3.6%	4.1%	0.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%
2020	83.0%	8.9%	2.6%	4.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	82.0%	10.4%	2.5%	3.9%	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	79.9%	13.3%	2.2%	3.2%	0.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%
2023	77.6%	16.0%	2.2%	2.7%	0.2%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%
2024	78.0%	17.6%	2.1%	1.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2012 at 90.2% and lowest in 2023 at 77.6%. Overall it fell from 88.9% in 2009 to 78.0% in 2024, down 10.9 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Glendora: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 17.6% in 2024, up 13.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.3% to 1.9% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 3.8% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 2.1%.

Commute Start Times in Glendora

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Glendora?

The bars show when commuters in Glendora 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		6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Glendora is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 17.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush looks much like California's: 41.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.1%) 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 Glendora, 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 Glendora 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 Glendora 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	Glendora	California	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:44 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Glendora were on the road by 7:30 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Glendora now leave 8 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 Glendora has moved 13 minutes earlier.

How does Glendora's commute time compare?

Metric	Glendora	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.7 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	17.6%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.9%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Glendora is 30.7 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 2.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Glendora, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Glendora, CA is typical in size for this group, 51,981 residents against a local median of 46,902, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Glendora, CA apart most is work from home: 17.6%, 40% above the local median of 12.5%.

The cities themselves spread 6.6% on work from home, so Glendora, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Glendora, CA has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Glendora, CA	51,981	30.7 min #4/4	17.6% #1/4	7:30 AM #3/4
San Dimas, CA	34,372	25.6 min	16.6%	7:41 AM
Covina, CA	51,499	27.2 min	12.5%	7:24 AM
Azusa, CA	46,902	28.6 min	10.0%	7:28 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Glendora, California.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 256 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,934 at a typical national wage. That's 31% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

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