Lynwood Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lynwood, 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 Lynwood: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lynwood spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 252 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 6.8 minutes.

Lynwood holds about 0.2% of California's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lynwood would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,124 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)
Lynwood	30.2 min	60.5 min	252 hrs/yr	$7,810	5,437
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.

Lynwood Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.2 minutes to get to work in Lynwood. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lynwood

Working from home is unusually rare in Lynwood: 4.2 times less than the California average (4.0% vs 17.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Lynwood: 4.2 times less than the California average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lynwood, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lynwood 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	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	87.0%	5.6%	1.8%	1.4%	3.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	87.1%	5.9%	1.8%	1.3%	3.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2011	86.6%	6.8%	1.8%	0.9%	3.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	86.6%	6.1%	1.9%	1.3%	3.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	87.7%	5.6%	1.5%	1.3%	3.1%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2014	86.4%	6.1%	1.9%	1.5%	3.0%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%
2015	85.9%	6.2%	2.2%	1.8%	2.7%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%
2016	86.5%	5.9%	2.1%	1.8%	2.4%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%
2017	88.2%	5.7%	1.9%	1.1%	2.0%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%
2018	88.2%	5.5%	2.2%	1.4%	1.8%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%
2019	89.4%	5.1%	1.9%	1.3%	1.8%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2020	90.1%	4.8%	2.2%	1.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	89.2%	4.7%	3.0%	1.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	89.2%	4.6%	3.2%	1.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	88.1%	5.0%	3.5%	1.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	88.2%	4.0%	4.0%	1.8%	1.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2020 at 90.1% and lowest in 2015 at 85.9%. Overall it rose from 87.0% in 2009 to 88.2% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lynwood: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 4.0% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.3% to 1.5% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 6.8% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 4.0%.

Commute Start Times in Lynwood

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lynwood?

The bars show when commuters in Lynwood 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		9.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lynwood is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 10.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 25.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 35.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.5%) 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 Lynwood, 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 Lynwood 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 Lynwood 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	Lynwood	California	United States
2009	7:06 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:09 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:11 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:10 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:11 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lynwood were on the road by 7:20 AM, 15 minutes later than in 2009 (7:06 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Lynwood now leave 17 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 Lynwood has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Lynwood's commute time compare?

Metric	Lynwood	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.2 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.0%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.0%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lynwood is 30.2 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

4.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.9% in California. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lynwood, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Lynwood, CA is typical in size for this group, 62,939 residents against a local median of 56,323, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Lynwood, CA's work from home, at 4.0%, runs 32% below the 5.9% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves spread 4.4% on work from home, so Lynwood, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Lynwood, CA has the 5th highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lynwood, CA	62,939	30.2 min #2/5	4.0% #5/5	7:20 AM #4/5
South Gate, CA	90,685	30.9 min	7.0%	7:18 AM
Willowbrook, CA	21,745	31.5 min	8.9%	7:18 AM
Compton, CA	94,573	30.3 min	4.9%	7:26 AM
Cudahy, CA	21,960	30.1 min	4.4%	7:09 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lynwood, California.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 252 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,810 at a typical national wage. That's 29% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Lynwood, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.