Ladera Ranch Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Ladera Ranch: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ladera Ranch spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Ladera Ranch 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 Ladera Ranch would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,382 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)
Ladera Ranch	23.0 min	46.1 min	192 hrs/yr	$5,954	4,808
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.

Ladera Ranch Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in Ladera Ranch. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 29.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ladera Ranch

• Car: 68.4%
• Worked at Home: 29.2%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Other: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Ladera Ranch: 6.7 times less than the California average (0.4% vs 2.9%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Ladera Ranch, versus 0.2% in California.

Biking is unusually rare in Ladera Ranch: 4.3 times less than the California average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Ladera Ranch: just 1.0%, 3.1 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Ladera Ranch, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ladera Ranch 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	86.7%	11.2%	1.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	87.3%	10.5%	1.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	89.4%	8.9%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	89.6%	8.6%	0.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	87.8%	10.1%	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	87.6%	9.7%	1.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	86.8%	10.7%	1.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	85.7%	11.6%	1.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	85.4%	12.1%	1.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	86.3%	11.2%	1.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	86.8%	11.3%	0.4%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	82.5%	15.5%	0.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	75.7%	21.1%	0.5%	1.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	71.3%	24.8%	0.8%	2.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	70.9%	26.0%	0.8%	1.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	68.4%	29.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	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 2012 at 89.6%. Overall it fell from 86.7% in 2009 to 68.4% in 2024, down 18.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ladera Ranch: its share of workers rose from 11.2% in 2009 to 29.2% in 2024, up 18.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Ladera Ranch

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ladera Ranch?

The bars show when commuters in Ladera Ranch 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 Ladera Ranch2.6% California6.7%	2.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Ladera Ranch3.5% California4.5%	3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Ladera Ranch2.0% California4.5%	2.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Ladera Ranch7.1% California8.4%	7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Ladera Ranch9.6% California7.5%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Ladera Ranch13.1% California13.1%	13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Ladera Ranch10.9% California10.2%	10.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Ladera Ranch16.2% California12.6%	16.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Ladera Ranch9.4% California5.8%	9.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Ladera Ranch9.7% California8.6%	9.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Ladera Ranch1.9% California3.9%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Ladera Ranch1.7% California1.8%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Ladera Ranch4.6% California6.9%	4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Ladera Ranch7.8% California5.5%	7.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ladera Ranch is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 8.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 49.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.6%) 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 Ladera Ranch, 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 Ladera Ranch 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 Ladera Ranch 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	Ladera Ranch	California	United States
2009	7:49 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:54 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:52 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:50 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:56 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:49 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:54 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:03 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:11 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:09 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:02 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ladera Ranch were on the road by 8:02 AM, 14 minutes later than in 2009 (7:49 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Ladera Ranch now leave 24 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 Ladera Ranch has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Ladera Ranch's commute time compare?

Metric	Ladera Ranch	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.0 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	29.2%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ladera Ranch is about the same as in California.

0.4% 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