La Presa Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in La Presa, 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 Presa: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in La Presa spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

La Presa 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 La Presa would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,443 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 Presa	23.6 min	47.3 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,107	4,331
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 Presa Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.6 minutes to get to work in La Presa. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in La Presa

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in La Presa: 3.9 times more than the California average (0.8% vs 0.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in La Presa: 3.1 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in La Presa: 5.0 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in La Presa: just 0.9%, 3.3 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in La Presa, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in La Presa 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	Other	Motorcycle	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	91.1%	3.5%	2.8%	0.9%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.6%	3.6%	2.8%	0.9%	0.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.3%	3.1%	2.6%	0.9%	0.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	89.7%	4.6%	2.8%	0.6%	0.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	89.9%	4.7%	3.0%	0.6%	0.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	90.7%	4.2%	2.7%	0.3%	0.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	89.8%	5.0%	2.6%	0.4%	0.3%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	90.0%	4.9%	2.6%	0.6%	0.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	90.8%	3.7%	2.7%	0.9%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	91.5%	3.4%	2.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	91.0%	3.8%	2.6%	0.9%	0.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	89.6%	5.2%	2.2%	1.5%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	87.0%	7.9%	1.9%	1.8%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	86.9%	9.0%	1.2%	1.6%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%
2023	87.8%	8.9%	0.9%	1.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	86.3%	9.7%	1.1%	1.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2018 at 91.5%. Overall it fell from 91.1% in 2009 to 86.3% in 2024, down 4.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in La Presa: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 9.7% in 2024, up 6.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.8% to 1.1% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in La Presa

What Time Do People Leave for Work in La Presa?

The bars show when commuters in La Presa 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		9.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in La Presa is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 21.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 39.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Presa, 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 Presa 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 Presa 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 Presa	California	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:08 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:06 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:09 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in La Presa were on the road by 7:16 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across California, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in La Presa now leave 22 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 La Presa has moved 7 minutes later.

How does La Presa's commute time compare?

Metric	La Presa	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.6 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.7%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.1%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in La Presa is 23.6 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

La Presa, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

La Presa, CA is the 2nd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 34,750 residents against a local median of 28,050. La Presa, CA's work from home, at 9.7%, runs 45% below the 17.6% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves spread 6.5% on work from home, so La Presa, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. La Presa, CA has the 4th highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
La Presa, CA	34,750	23.6 min #2/4	9.7% #4/4	7:16 AM #1/4
Lemon Grove, CA	28,050	26.3 min	11.2%	7:23 AM
La Mesa, CA	61,731	22.3 min	17.6%	7:46 AM
Casa de Oro-Mount Helix, CA	22,051	25.6 min	17.7%	7:41 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in La Presa, California.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 197 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,107 at a typical national wage. That's 1% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in La Presa, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.