Maywood Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Maywood, 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 Maywood: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Maywood spend about 61 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.

Maywood holds about 0.1% of California's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Maywood would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,130 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)
Maywood	30.3 min	60.6 min	252 hrs/yr	$7,824	3,772
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.

Maywood Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.3 minutes to get to work in Maywood. That's 35% 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 4.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Maywood

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Maywood: 3.9 times less than the California average (4.4% vs 17.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Maywood, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Maywood 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	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	80.7%	2.7%	8.2%	0.5%	5.6%	1.9%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	78.7%	3.5%	7.6%	1.6%	6.6%	1.7%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	80.0%	2.8%	6.2%	1.8%	7.2%	1.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	80.7%	3.3%	5.8%	1.8%	6.4%	1.6%	0.4%	0.1%
2013	80.5%	3.2%	7.6%	1.6%	5.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	82.8%	2.1%	7.3%	1.5%	4.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2015	83.3%	2.1%	8.2%	0.8%	3.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2016	83.6%	2.5%	8.0%	0.5%	3.7%	1.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	83.9%	2.4%	8.5%	0.2%	3.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	86.0%	2.3%	7.3%	0.1%	3.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	84.2%	2.3%	7.0%	1.4%	4.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	83.6%	3.4%	6.2%	1.4%	4.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	82.2%	3.6%	7.0%	3.0%	3.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	81.9%	4.1%	5.2%	4.0%	4.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	82.3%	4.3%	4.2%	4.5%	4.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	85.1%	4.4%	4.0%	3.2%	2.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2018 at 86.0% and lowest in 2010 at 78.7%. Overall it rose from 80.7% in 2009 to 85.1% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Maywood: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 4.4% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 8.2% to 4.0% of workers (down 4.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 7.2% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 2.7%.

Commute Start Times in Maywood

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Maywood?

The bars show when commuters in Maywood 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		13.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		11.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		6.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Maywood is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 13.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.7% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 29.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 32.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.0%) 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 Maywood, 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 Maywood 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 Maywood 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	Maywood	California	United States
2009	7:00 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:03 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:06 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:05 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:10 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:07 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:08 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Maywood were on the road by 7:08 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:00 AM). California followed the same path, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Maywood now leave 30 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Maywood's commute time compare?

Metric	Maywood	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.3 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	4.4%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.7%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.0%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Maywood is 30.3 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

4.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.9% in California. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Maywood, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Maywood, CA is the 3rd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 22,721 residents against a local median of 33,319. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Maywood, CA an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 2% below the local median at 4.4% against 4.4%. Maywood, CA has the 3rd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Maywood, CA	22,721	30.3 min #2/4	4.4% #3/4	7:08 AM #2/4
Bell, CA	33,319	30.5 min	4.3%	7:04 AM
Cudahy, CA	21,960	30.1 min	4.4%	7:09 AM
Huntington Park, CA	53,550	31.0 min	5.8%	7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Maywood, California.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 252 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,824 at a typical national wage. That's 29% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

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