Lomita Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lomita, 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 Lomita: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lomita spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 183 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Lomita 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 Lomita would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,270 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)
Lomita	22.0 min	43.9 min	183 hrs/yr	$5,676	5,631
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.

Lomita Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.0 minutes to get to work in Lomita. That's 2% shorter 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 11.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lomita

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

Commute Mode Trends in Lomita, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lomita 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	90.8%	4.0%	0.8%	1.9%	0.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	89.9%	4.5%	1.5%	1.8%	1.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	89.3%	5.0%	1.6%	2.2%	1.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	87.3%	5.9%	1.3%	2.8%	1.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	86.0%	6.1%	2.0%	3.5%	1.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	86.6%	5.2%	2.0%	4.2%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	86.6%	5.4%	1.7%	4.3%	0.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	88.1%	4.5%	2.2%	3.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	88.4%	3.7%	2.6%	4.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2018	88.7%	4.4%	2.5%	3.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2019	87.1%	6.5%	2.4%	3.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	83.5%	7.5%	3.8%	3.2%	1.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	79.9%	11.4%	3.3%	2.9%	1.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	80.6%	11.7%	3.7%	2.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	81.4%	11.0%	3.6%	1.5%	1.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.5%	11.1%	4.2%	1.6%	1.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2021 at 79.9%. Overall it fell from 90.8% in 2009 to 80.5% in 2024, down 10.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lomita: its share of workers rose from 4.0% in 2009 to 11.1% in 2024, up 7.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 4.3% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 1.6%.

Commute Start Times in Lomita

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lomita?

The bars show when commuters in Lomita 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		6.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lomita is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across California. Early starts are about as common as in California: 15.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 47.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.3%) 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 Lomita, 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 Lomita 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 Lomita 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	Lomita	California	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:47 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:47 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:54 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lomita were on the road by 7:48 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:44 AM). Across California the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Lomita now leave 10 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 Lomita has moved 15 minutes later.

How does Lomita's commute time compare?

Metric	Lomita	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.0 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	11.1%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	4.2%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.6%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lomita is 22.0 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 4.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lomita, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Lomita, CA is the smallest of the 4 cities compared here, 20,223 residents against a local median of 92,071. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Lomita, CA an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 13% below the local median at 11.1% against 12.8%. Lomita, CA has the 3rd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lomita, CA	20,223	22.0 min #1/4	11.1% #3/4	7:48 AM #2/4
West Carson, CA	22,143	23.0 min	12.8%	8:03 AM
Torrance, CA	139,758	22.8 min	20.9%	8:05 AM
Carson, CA	92,071	23.6 min	8.7%	7:35 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lomita, California.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Lomita, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 183 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,676 at a typical national wage. That's 6% less than the typical California commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Lomita, California?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Lomita, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.