Morgan Hill Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Morgan Hill, 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 Morgan Hill: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morgan Hill spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 266 hours, about 11.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 36% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 8.4 minutes.

Morgan Hill 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 Morgan Hill would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,297 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)
Morgan Hill	31.9 min	63.8 min	266 hrs/yr	$8,242	3,053
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.

Morgan Hill Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.9 minutes to get to work in Morgan Hill. That's 42% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 22.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morgan Hill

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Morgan Hill: 6717756.3 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Morgan Hill: 4.2 times less than the California average (0.7% vs 2.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Morgan Hill, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morgan Hill 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	88.5%	4.9%	3.2%	1.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	85.8%	5.9%	3.9%	2.4%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%
2011	83.9%	7.0%	4.3%	2.7%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	83.7%	6.9%	3.5%	3.2%	1.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%
2013	85.0%	6.7%	2.0%	3.4%	1.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.5%
2014	85.8%	7.0%	1.7%	3.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.5%
2015	87.7%	5.8%	1.4%	3.2%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%
2016	87.5%	5.9%	1.6%	3.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%
2017	88.4%	5.3%	1.3%	3.4%	0.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%
2018	87.5%	6.0%	1.3%	3.7%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	87.0%	5.3%	1.9%	4.0%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	84.5%	8.8%	1.7%	3.1%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	80.7%	12.9%	1.8%	2.6%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	78.2%	16.3%	1.8%	2.1%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	76.8%	18.2%	1.7%	1.6%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	75.1%	22.2%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 88.5% in 2009 to 75.1% in 2024, down 13.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morgan Hill: its share of workers rose from 4.9% in 2009 to 22.2% in 2024, up 17.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 0.9% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 4.0% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.

Commute Start Times in Morgan Hill

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morgan Hill?

The bars show when commuters in Morgan Hill 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		6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morgan Hill is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 17.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush looks much like California's: 42.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.2%) 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 Morgan Hill, 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 Morgan Hill 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 Morgan Hill 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	Morgan Hill	California	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morgan Hill were on the road by 7:35 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:34 AM). Across California the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Morgan Hill now leave 3 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 Morgan Hill has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Morgan Hill's commute time compare?

Metric	Morgan Hill	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.9 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	22.2%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Morgan Hill is 31.9 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Morgan Hill, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Morgan Hill, CA	31,183	31.9 min #2/2	22.2% #1/2	7:35 AM #2/2
Gilroy, CA	43,150	28.7 min	10.3%	7:20 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Morgan Hill, California.

Is commuting expensive in Morgan Hill, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 266 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,242 at a typical national wage. That's 36% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Morgan Hill, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Morgan Hill, California?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.7% of commuters use it versus 2.9% in California, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.