Hanford Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Hanford, 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 Hanford: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hanford spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 172 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Hanford 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 Hanford would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,127 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)
Hanford	20.6 min	41.2 min	172 hrs/yr	$5,318	2,142
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.

Hanford Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.6 minutes to get to work in Hanford. That's 8% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hanford

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Hanford: 3.4 times more than the California average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Hanford: 7.0 times less than the California average (0.4% vs 2.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Hanford: 49.9 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hanford, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hanford 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	Motorcycle	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	91.5%	1.9%	2.4%	0.9%	1.3%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%
2010	91.9%	2.4%	2.5%	0.7%	1.0%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%
2011	91.8%	2.8%	2.3%	0.5%	1.0%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%
2012	93.2%	2.5%	1.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%
2013	94.0%	2.1%	1.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	94.4%	2.1%	1.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	94.4%	1.9%	2.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	94.6%	1.5%	2.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%
2017	94.5%	1.9%	1.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%
2018	95.0%	2.0%	1.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	1.0%	0.0%
2019	94.5%	2.3%	1.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%
2020	92.2%	4.1%	1.5%	0.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%
2021	91.7%	5.0%	1.0%	0.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	90.9%	5.5%	1.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	89.7%	6.1%	2.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	89.6%	6.4%	1.9%	0.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2018 at 95.0%. Overall it fell from 91.5% in 2009 to 89.6% in 2024, down 1.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hanford: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 6.4% in 2024, up 4.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Hanford

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hanford?

The bars show when commuters in Hanford 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		8.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hanford is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 23.5% 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 5 commuters (22.2%) 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 Hanford, 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 Hanford 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 Hanford 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	Hanford	California	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hanford were on the road by 7:15 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Hanford now leave 23 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 Hanford has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Hanford's commute time compare?

Metric	Hanford	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.6 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.4%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hanford is 20.6 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 1.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hanford, California.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 172 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,318 at a typical national wage. That's 12% less than the typical California commuter spends.

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

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

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Hanford, California?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.4% of commuters use it versus 2.9% in California, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.