Mead Valley Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Mead Valley: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mead Valley spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 7.3 minutes.

Mead Valley 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 Mead Valley would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,176 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)
Mead Valley	30.7 min	61.5 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,940	3,864
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.

Mead Valley Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.7 minutes to get to work in Mead Valley. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mead Valley

• Car: 88.3%
• Worked at Home: 8.8%
• Other: 1.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.9% unusually low
• Walked: 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Mead Valley: 7.8 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Walking is unusually rare in Mead Valley: 16.8 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 2.4%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Mead Valley: 3.2 times less than the California average (0.9% vs 2.9%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Mead Valley: 5.6 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Mead Valley: just 0.3%, 11.6 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Mead Valley, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mead Valley 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	86.6%	8.3%	0.8%	2.4%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	87.2%	7.5%	0.9%	2.3%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	89.0%	6.3%	1.6%	1.4%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	91.4%	3.5%	1.7%	1.6%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.6%
2013	92.1%	2.8%	1.1%	2.2%	0.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.6%
2014	92.9%	2.1%	1.3%	1.9%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	91.9%	2.5%	1.2%	2.2%	0.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.6%
2016	92.1%	2.6%	0.4%	2.1%	0.3%	2.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	90.8%	3.1%	1.0%	2.2%	0.2%	2.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	92.1%	3.1%	1.2%	1.6%	0.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	91.3%	4.1%	1.5%	1.1%	0.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	91.8%	5.0%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.8%	7.0%	1.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.4%	9.0%	1.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.6%	8.0%	2.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.3%	8.8%	1.7%	0.9%	0.1%	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 92.9%. Overall it rose from 86.6% in 2009 to 88.3% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mead Valley: its share of workers rose from 8.3% in 2009 to 8.8% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.4% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Mead Valley

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mead Valley?

The bars show when commuters in Mead Valley 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 Mead Valley15.8% California6.7%	15.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Mead Valley7.3% California4.5%	7.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Mead Valley10.0% California4.5%	10.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Mead Valley15.6% California8.4%	15.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Mead Valley6.0% California7.5%	6.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Mead Valley11.9% California13.1%	11.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Mead Valley5.1% California10.2%	5.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Mead Valley8.8% California12.6%	8.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Mead Valley1.6% California5.8%	1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Mead Valley2.1% California8.6%	2.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Mead Valley3.0% California3.9%	3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Mead Valley0.9% California1.8%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Mead Valley6.4% California6.9%	6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Mead Valley5.5% California5.5%	5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mead Valley 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: 33.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 31.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.9%) 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 Mead Valley, 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 Mead Valley 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 Mead Valley 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.

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• California
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Mead Valley	California	United States
2009	6:54 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:01 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:54 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:58 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:02 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:55 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:52 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:53 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:58 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:54 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:51 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:30 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:37 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mead Valley were on the road by 6:37 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (6:54 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Mead Valley now leave 61 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 Mead Valley has moved 14 minutes earlier.

How does Mead Valley's commute time compare?

Metric	Mead Valley	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.7 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.8%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.1%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mead Valley is 30.7 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau