Menifee Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Menifee: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Menifee spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 272 hours, about 11.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 39% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 9.2 minutes.

Menifee holds about 0.3% of California's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Menifee would save about 109 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,372 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)
Menifee	32.6 min	65.3 min	272 hrs/yr	$8,431	5,765
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.

Menifee Commute Map

On average, it takes 32.6 minutes to get to work in Menifee. That's 46% 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 14.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Menifee

• Car: 83.8%
• Worked at Home: 14.9%
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Other: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Menifee: 5.4 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Walking is unusually rare in Menifee: 4.6 times less than the California average (0.5% vs 2.4%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Menifee: 13.9 times less than the California average (0.2% vs 2.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Menifee: 6.5 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Menifee: 17.6 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Menifee: just 0.6%, 5.5 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Menifee, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Menifee 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
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.8%	7.4%	1.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	91.4%	6.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	91.5%	5.9%	0.9%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	91.0%	6.1%	1.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2013	91.0%	6.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2014	90.7%	6.2%	0.9%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2015	90.8%	5.9%	0.9%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
2016	91.1%	5.5%	1.1%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2017	91.5%	5.2%	0.8%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2018	90.9%	5.6%	1.0%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2019	90.9%	5.9%	1.0%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2020	89.9%	7.5%	0.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2021	87.6%	10.1%	0.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2022	86.9%	11.4%	0.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	84.8%	13.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	83.8%	14.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	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 2011 at 91.5%. Overall it fell from 89.8% in 2009 to 83.8% in 2024, down 6.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Menifee: its share of workers rose from 7.4% in 2009 to 14.9% in 2024, up 7.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Menifee

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Menifee?

The bars show when commuters in Menifee 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 Menifee13.9% California6.7%	13.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Menifee8.1% California4.5%	8.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Menifee4.7% California4.5%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Menifee11.7% California8.4%	11.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Menifee8.1% California7.5%	8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Menifee11.3% California13.1%	11.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Menifee6.8% California10.2%	6.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Menifee8.2% California12.6%	8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Menifee3.1% California5.8%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Menifee5.3% California8.6%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Menifee2.6% California3.9%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Menifee1.2% California1.8%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Menifee7.3% California6.9%	7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Menifee7.5% California5.5%	7.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Menifee is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.7% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 26.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 34.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.0%) 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 Menifee, 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 Menifee 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 Menifee 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.

• Menifee
• California
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Menifee	California	United States
2009	7:09 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:11 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:09 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:07 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:07 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:03 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:06 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:07 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:07 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:04 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:05 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:04 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:10 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Menifee were on the road by 7:09 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across California, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Menifee now leave 29 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 Menifee has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Menifee's commute time compare?

Metric	Menifee	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.6 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	14.9%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Menifee is 32.6 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau