Jurupa Valley Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Jurupa Valley: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jurupa Valley 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 17% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 3.9 minutes.

Jurupa Valley holds about 0.3% of California's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jurupa Valley would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,832 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)
Jurupa Valley	27.4 min	54.8 min	228 hrs/yr	$7,079	4,334
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.

Jurupa Valley Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.4 minutes to get to work in Jurupa Valley. That's 22% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jurupa Valley

• Car: 89.7%
• Worked at Home: 8.0%
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.6% unusually low
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Jurupa Valley: 4.3 times less than the California average (0.5% vs 2.4%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Jurupa Valley: 5.1 times less than the California average (0.6% vs 2.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Jurupa Valley: 8.6 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Jurupa Valley: just 0.6%, 4.9 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Jurupa Valley, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jurupa Valley 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.5%	3.2%	0.7%	0.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2010	93.0%	3.2%	0.7%	1.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2011	93.1%	2.9%	0.6%	1.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2012	93.7%	2.6%	0.6%	0.9%	1.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2013	93.6%	2.6%	0.7%	1.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2014	93.9%	2.6%	0.5%	1.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2015	93.6%	2.9%	0.4%	1.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2016	92.9%	3.6%	0.5%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2017	92.8%	4.0%	0.5%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	92.9%	4.0%	0.6%	1.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2019	92.3%	4.6%	0.7%	1.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	92.7%	5.2%	0.5%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	91.9%	5.6%	0.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	91.0%	6.2%	1.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2023	89.9%	7.4%	1.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	89.7%	8.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 93.9%. Overall it fell from 93.5% in 2009 to 89.7% in 2024, down 3.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Jurupa Valley: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 8.0% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Jurupa Valley

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jurupa Valley?

The bars show when commuters in Jurupa Valley 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 Jurupa Valley15.6% California6.7%	15.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Jurupa Valley8.7% California4.5%	8.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Jurupa Valley5.5% California4.5%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Jurupa Valley10.4% California8.4%	10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Jurupa Valley7.0% California7.5%	7.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Jurupa Valley11.1% California13.1%	11.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Jurupa Valley7.8% California10.2%	7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Jurupa Valley8.8% California12.6%	8.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Jurupa Valley2.9% California5.8%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Jurupa Valley5.4% California8.6%	5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Jurupa Valley1.8% California3.9%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Jurupa Valley1.4% California1.8%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Jurupa Valley7.5% California6.9%	7.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Jurupa Valley6.0% California5.5%	6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jurupa Valley is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.7% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 29.8% 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 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 Jurupa Valley, 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 Jurupa Valley 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 Jurupa Valley 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Jurupa Valley	California	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:10 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:06 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:06 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:02 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:04 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:04 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:04 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:03 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:02 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:04 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:03 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:07 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jurupa Valley were on the road by 7:07 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:11 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Jurupa Valley now leave 31 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 Jurupa Valley has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Jurupa Valley's commute time compare?

Metric	Jurupa Valley	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.4 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 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	8.0%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jurupa Valley is 27.4 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau