Orangevale Commute Time Map & Patterns

Q: Is living in Orangevale, California good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 231 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,150 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical California commuter spends.

Q: When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Orangevale, California?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Orangevale, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Q: How common is public transit use in Orangevale, California?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 2.9% in California, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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Commute Time Burden in Orangevale: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Orangevale spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 231 hours, about 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 4.2 minutes.

Orangevale 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 Orangevale would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,860 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)
Orangevale	27.7 min	55.4 min	231 hrs/yr	$7,150	4,556
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.

Orangevale Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.7 minutes to get to work in Orangevale. That's 23% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 19.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Orangevale

Public transit is unusually rare in Orangevale: 2616.4 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 2.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Orangevale: 3.1 times more than the California average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Orangevale, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Orangevale 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	Other	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Public Transportation
2009	89.9%	4.8%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.6%	2.1%
2010	88.5%	5.0%	1.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%	1.2%	2.5%
2011	88.5%	5.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	1.8%	2.3%
2012	89.4%	4.2%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.7%	1.6%	2.6%
2013	88.8%	4.6%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.6%	1.4%	3.0%
2014	88.8%	5.3%	0.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.6%	1.1%	2.3%
2015	89.2%	5.5%	0.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.5%	2.3%
2016	88.1%	6.5%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%	2.8%
2017	87.8%	7.2%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%	2.7%
2018	88.0%	8.6%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%	1.5%
2019	87.5%	9.3%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%	1.3%
2020	85.7%	10.5%	0.5%	1.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	1.0%
2021	83.0%	13.6%	0.9%	1.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2022	81.4%	15.3%	1.2%	1.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2023	79.4%	17.3%	1.6%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	77.5%	19.0%	1.6%	0.9%	0.7%	0.3%	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 89.9% in 2009 to 77.5% in 2024, down 12.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Orangevale: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 19.0% in 2024, up 14.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 0.0% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Walking overtook biking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Riding a motorcycle peaked at 1.8% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 0.2%.

Commute Start Times in Orangevale

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Orangevale?

The bars show when commuters in Orangevale 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		6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Orangevale is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are about as common as in California: 15.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush looks much like California's: 45.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Orangevale, 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 Orangevale 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 Orangevale 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	Orangevale	California	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Orangevale were on the road by 7:25 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Orangevale now leave 13 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 Orangevale has moved 10 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Orangevale in the whole series.

How does Orangevale's commute time compare?

Metric	Orangevale	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.7 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	19.0%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Orangevale is 27.7 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.0% 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

Orangevale, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Orangevale, CA is the 3rd largest of the 5 cities compared here, 35,887 residents against a local median of 58,267. Orangevale, CA's work from home, at 19.0%, runs 23% below the 24.7% typical of the cities around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 27.7 min against a local median of 23.1 min, 20% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 20% above the local median it puts Orangevale, CA at the weaker end of the local range. The cities themselves spread 14.1% on work from home, so Orangevale, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Orangevale, CA has the 4th highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Orangevale, CA	35,887	27.7 min #5/5	19.0% #4/5	7:24 AM #1/5
Fair Oaks, CA	32,617	26.4 min	23.8%	7:50 AM
Citrus Heights, CA	86,009	23.3 min	17.0%	7:39 AM
Folsom, CA	83,916	22.9 min	31.1%	7:58 AM
Granite Bay, CA	20,314	22.3 min	25.6%	7:48 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Orangevale, California.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 231 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,150 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Orangevale, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Orangevale, California?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 2.9% in California, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.