Lemoore Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lemoore: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lemoore spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 5.4 minutes.

Lemoore holds about 0.1% of California's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lemoore would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,869 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)
Lemoore	18.1 min	36.2 min	151 hrs/yr	$4,671	1,190
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.

Lemoore Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.1 minutes to get to work in Lemoore. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 2.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lemoore

• Car: 92.6% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 2.3% unusually low
• Bicycle: 1.6%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Taxi: 1.0% unusually high
• Motorcycle: 0.7% unusually high
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Lemoore: 3.3 times more than the California average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Driving is 23% more common in Lemoore than the California average (92.6% vs 75.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Lemoore: 123.9 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 2.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Lemoore: 4.6 times more than the California average (1.0% vs 0.2%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Lemoore: 7.5 times less than the California average (2.3% vs 17.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lemoore, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lemoore 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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• Worked at Home
• Bicycle
• Walked
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Other
• Public Transportation

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Bicycle	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Other	Public Transportation
2009	92.8%	1.8%	0.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.8%	1.0%	1.0%
2010	93.8%	1.8%	0.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.7%
2011	92.5%	1.1%	0.5%	3.1%	0.0%	0.9%	1.0%	1.0%
2012	93.7%	0.8%	0.5%	1.9%	0.0%	0.7%	1.1%	1.3%
2013	94.7%	1.4%	0.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.9%	0.3%
2014	94.3%	1.7%	0.1%	2.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%
2015	94.8%	1.7%	0.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.7%	0.1%
2016	94.9%	2.2%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%
2017	92.4%	3.6%	1.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%
2018	92.1%	3.2%	1.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%
2019	92.6%	3.4%	1.0%	2.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2020	93.8%	3.2%	0.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	93.6%	3.1%	0.2%	2.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%
2022	94.0%	1.9%	1.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	93.6%	2.2%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	92.6%	2.3%	1.6%	1.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2016 at 94.9% and lowest in 2018 at 92.1%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 92.8% in 2009 and 92.6% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Biking gained the most ground in Lemoore: its share of workers rose from 0.5% in 2009 to 1.6% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 3.6% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 2.3%.

Commute Start Times in Lemoore

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lemoore?

The bars show when commuters in Lemoore 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 Lemoore8.4% California6.7%	8.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lemoore5.4% California4.5%	5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lemoore7.7% California4.5%	7.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lemoore10.4% California8.4%	10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lemoore13.2% California7.5%	13.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lemoore8.0% California13.1%	8.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lemoore9.7% California10.2%	9.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lemoore5.0% California12.6%	5.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lemoore2.1% California5.8%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lemoore3.7% California8.6%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lemoore2.2% California3.9%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lemoore0.4% California1.8%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lemoore12.2% California6.9%	12.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lemoore11.7% California5.5%	11.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lemoore is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 13.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.5% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 21.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 35.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.1%) 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 Lemoore, 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 Lemoore 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 Lemoore 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.

• Lemoore
• California
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lemoore	California	United States
2009	7:12 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:12 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:09 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:15 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lemoore were on the road by 7:18 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:12 AM). California followed the same path, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Lemoore now leave 20 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 Lemoore has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Lemoore's commute time compare?

Metric	Lemoore	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.1 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.3%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lemoore is 18.1 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau