Los Banos Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Los Banos: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Los Banos spend about 117 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 489 hours, about 20.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 150% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 35.2 minutes.

Los Banos 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 Los Banos would save about 196 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $6,064 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)
Los Banos	58.7 min	117.4 min	489 hrs/yr	$15,160	1,234
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.

Los Banos Commute Map

On average, it takes 58.7 minutes to get to work in Los Banos. That's 162% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Los Banos

• Car: 90.8% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 6.8%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
• Other: 0.4%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Los Banos, versus 0.2% in California.

Driving is 21% more common in Los Banos than the California average (90.8% vs 75.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Los Banos: 5.5 times less than the California average (0.5% vs 2.9%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Los Banos: 11.8 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Los Banos, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Los Banos 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Bicycle
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.4%	2.4%	1.8%	0.7%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.0%	2.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.8%	1.2%	1.3%	0.1%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.3%	1.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.2%	1.0%	1.2%	0.2%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	97.2%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	96.9%	1.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	95.1%	2.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	94.1%	3.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	93.0%	2.6%	0.6%	1.1%	1.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%
2019	93.2%	2.7%	0.6%	1.1%	1.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	93.0%	2.9%	0.6%	1.6%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	94.1%	3.7%	0.2%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.9%	6.8%	1.1%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.9%	7.0%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.8%	6.8%	1.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 97.2%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 90.8% in 2024, down 2.6 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Los Banos: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 6.8% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Los Banos

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Los Banos?

The bars show when commuters in Los Banos 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 Los Banos20.6% California6.7%	20.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Los Banos12.0% California4.5%	12.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Los Banos6.4% California4.5%	6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Los Banos11.2% California8.4%	11.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Los Banos5.9% California7.5%	5.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Los Banos9.9% California13.1%	9.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Los Banos7.3% California10.2%	7.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Los Banos4.9% California12.6%	4.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Los Banos2.0% California5.8%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Los Banos3.8% California8.6%	3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Los Banos1.3% California3.9%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Los Banos0.6% California1.8%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Los Banos6.5% California6.9%	6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Los Banos7.4% California5.5%	7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Los Banos is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 20.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.7% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 39.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 28.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.7%) 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 Los Banos, 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 Los Banos 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 Los Banos 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.

• Los Banos
• California
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Los Banos	California	United States
2009	6:59 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:02 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:06 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:10 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:06 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:04 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:03 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:01 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:58 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:02 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:55 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:49 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:41 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:29 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Los Banos were on the road by 6:29 AM, 30 minutes earlier than in 2009 (6:59 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Los Banos now leave 69 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 Los Banos has moved 33 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Los Banos in the whole series.

How does Los Banos's commute time compare?

Metric	Los Banos	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	58.7 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	05:00 AM – 05:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.8%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Los Banos is 58.7 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau