North Tustin Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in North Tustin, 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 North Tustin: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in North Tustin spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 182 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

North Tustin 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 North Tustin would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,259 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)
North Tustin	21.9 min	43.7 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,647	3,514
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.

North Tustin Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.9 minutes to get to work in North Tustin. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 20.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in North Tustin

Public transit is unusually rare in North Tustin: 3.6 times less than the California average (0.8% vs 2.9%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in North Tustin: 3.9 times less than the California average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in North Tustin, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in North Tustin 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	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	90.9%	6.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2010	90.0%	7.5%	0.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2011	88.9%	8.1%	1.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	89.1%	7.8%	1.3%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2013	87.7%	8.3%	1.6%	0.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2014	88.0%	8.6%	1.1%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	88.0%	8.6%	1.3%	0.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	87.7%	9.0%	1.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	87.9%	9.1%	1.2%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	88.5%	8.6%	1.0%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	88.6%	8.8%	1.0%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	86.9%	10.4%	1.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	83.7%	14.1%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	81.8%	15.3%	1.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	79.5%	17.9%	0.8%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	77.0%	20.2%	1.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.9% in 2009 to 77.0% in 2024, down 13.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in North Tustin: its share of workers rose from 6.5% in 2009 to 20.2% in 2024, up 13.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in North Tustin

What Time Do People Leave for Work in North Tustin?

The bars show when commuters in North Tustin 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		4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		5.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		19.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		12.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in North Tustin is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 19.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 8.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 48.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.4%) 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 North Tustin, 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 North Tustin 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 North Tustin 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	North Tustin	California	United States
2009	7:54 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:56 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:58 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:58 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:00 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:54 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:52 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:54 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:51 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:49 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:54 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:57 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:01 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:06 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:09 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:09 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in North Tustin were on the road by 8:09 AM, 14 minutes later than in 2009 (7:54 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in North Tustin now leave 31 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in North Tustin has moved 14 minutes later.

How does North Tustin's commute time compare?

Metric	North Tustin	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.9 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	09:00 AM – 09:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	20.2%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in North Tustin is 21.9 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

North Tustin, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

North Tustin, CA is the smallest of the 5 cities compared here, 26,648 residents against a local median of 214,329. Nothing separates North Tustin, CA sharply from the cities around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 10% above the local median at 20.2% against 18.4%. North Tustin, CA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
North Tustin, CA	26,648	21.9 min #3/5	20.2% #2/5	8:08 AM #4/5
Tustin, CA	80,376	21.7 min	19.5%	8:01 AM
Orange, CA	133,060	22.7 min	17.3%	7:49 AM
Irvine, CA	295,598	21.3 min	28.0%	8:18 AM
Santa Ana, CA	313,932	22.1 min	9.5%	7:32 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in North Tustin, California.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 182 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,647 at a typical national wage. That's 7% less than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in North Tustin, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in North Tustin, California?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.8% of commuters use it versus 2.9% in California, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.