La Mirada Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in La Mirada, 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 La Mirada: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in La Mirada spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 255 hours, about 10.6 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.

La Mirada 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 La Mirada would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,166 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)
La Mirada	30.6 min	61.3 min	255 hrs/yr	$7,915	3,474
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.

La Mirada Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.6 minutes to get to work in La Mirada. 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 14.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in La Mirada

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in La Mirada, versus 0.2% in California.

Commute Mode Trends in La Mirada, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in La Mirada 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	Bicycle	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	90.6%	3.4%	3.1%	2.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	90.5%	3.5%	3.1%	2.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	91.0%	3.0%	2.8%	2.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	90.4%	2.8%	3.2%	2.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	90.2%	3.2%	3.5%	2.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	90.1%	3.2%	3.9%	1.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	90.4%	3.0%	3.1%	2.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	89.5%	4.5%	2.9%	1.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	88.7%	5.2%	2.8%	1.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%
2018	88.6%	5.2%	2.7%	1.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%
2019	88.7%	5.3%	2.4%	1.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	86.5%	7.3%	2.5%	1.8%	1.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2021	83.7%	10.1%	2.4%	2.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	82.3%	11.7%	2.5%	2.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	81.5%	12.9%	2.6%	1.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	81.0%	14.0%	2.2%	1.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 91.0%. Overall it fell from 90.6% in 2009 to 81.0% in 2024, down 9.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in La Mirada: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 14.0% in 2024, up 10.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.1% to 2.2% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in La Mirada

What Time Do People Leave for Work in La Mirada?

The bars show when commuters in La Mirada 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		6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in La Mirada is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are about as common as in California: 15.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 50.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.7%) 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 La Mirada, 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 La Mirada 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 La Mirada 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	La Mirada	California	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:37 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in La Mirada were on the road by 7:40 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (7:28 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in La Mirada now leave 3 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 La Mirada has moved 3 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for La Mirada in the whole series.

How does La Mirada's commute time compare?

Metric	La Mirada	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.6 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.0%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in La Mirada is 30.6 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 2.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

La Mirada, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

La Mirada, CA is typical in size for this group, 46,965 residents against a local median of 52,576, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. La Mirada, CA's work from home, at 14.0%, runs 31% above the 10.7% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves spread 7.0% on work from home, so La Mirada, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. La Mirada, CA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
La Mirada, CA	46,965	30.6 min #3/4	14.0% #2/4	7:40 AM #3/4
South Whittier, CA	52,576	30.2 min	8.5%	7:26 AM
Buena Park, CA	85,227	27.0 min	10.7%	7:42 AM
Santa Fe Springs, CA	22,478	30.7 min	15.5%	7:27 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in La Mirada, California.

How much does the average commute cost workers in La Mirada, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 255 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,915 at a typical national wage. That's 31% more than the typical California commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in La Mirada, California?

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