Manteca Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Manteca, 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 Manteca: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Manteca spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 217 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Manteca 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 Manteca would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,693 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)
Manteca	26.1 min	52.1 min	217 hrs/yr	$6,733	3,067
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.

Manteca Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.1 minutes to get to work in Manteca. That's 16% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Manteca

Walking is unusually rare in Manteca: 3.2 times less than the California average (0.7% vs 2.4%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Manteca: 4.6 times less than the California average (0.6% vs 2.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Manteca: 3.6 times less than the California average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Manteca: just 0.9%, 3.3 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Manteca, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Manteca 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.6%	3.1%	0.5%	1.2%	1.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2010	93.0%	2.8%	0.2%	1.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%
2011	92.8%	2.7%	0.2%	1.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.7%
2012	92.8%	2.7%	0.2%	1.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.7%
2013	93.5%	2.4%	0.3%	1.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.4%
2014	92.5%	3.0%	0.6%	1.5%	1.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.4%
2015	91.9%	3.3%	0.7%	1.6%	1.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2016	91.8%	3.6%	0.9%	1.8%	1.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	91.9%	4.0%	0.7%	1.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	90.8%	4.5%	0.6%	2.1%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	90.4%	4.8%	0.5%	1.9%	2.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	90.8%	5.4%	0.3%	1.2%	1.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	89.5%	6.6%	0.5%	1.1%	1.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	88.1%	7.8%	0.7%	0.9%	1.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2023	87.7%	8.9%	1.0%	0.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	87.2%	9.9%	0.9%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 93.5%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 87.2% in 2024, down 5.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Manteca: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 6.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.6% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Manteca

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Manteca?

The bars show when commuters in Manteca 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		15.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Manteca is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.7% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 27.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 36.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.4%) 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 Manteca, 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 Manteca 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 Manteca 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	Manteca	California	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:09 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:03 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:06 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Manteca were on the road by 7:13 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:18 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Manteca now leave 25 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Manteca's commute time compare?

Metric	Manteca	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.1 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.9%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Manteca is 26.1 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Manteca, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Manteca, CA compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Manteca, CA	70,217	26.1 min #1/2	9.9% #2/2	7:13 AM #1/2
Lathrop, CA	27,462	30.5 min	11.0%	7:25 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Manteca, California.

Is commuting expensive in Manteca, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 217 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,733 at a typical national wage. That's 11% more than the typical California commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Manteca, California?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Manteca, 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.

Do people use public transit in Manteca, California?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.6% of commuters use it versus 2.9% in California, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.