Paramount Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Paramount, 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 Paramount: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Paramount spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 211 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Paramount 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 Paramount would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,614 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)
Paramount	25.3 min	50.6 min	211 hrs/yr	$6,534	4,379
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.

Paramount Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.3 minutes to get to work in Paramount. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Paramount

Biking is unusually rare in Paramount: 5.0 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Paramount, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Paramount 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	87.8%	1.5%	4.9%	2.2%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	87.5%	2.0%	4.7%	3.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	88.4%	2.7%	4.3%	2.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2012	87.9%	2.8%	4.2%	3.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2013	87.4%	2.7%	5.2%	3.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2014	86.4%	3.0%	5.3%	3.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	1.1%
2015	87.2%	3.2%	4.9%	3.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	1.0%
2016	87.9%	3.3%	4.3%	2.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.9%
2017	89.1%	3.2%	4.4%	2.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.8%
2018	89.6%	3.6%	3.1%	2.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.7%
2019	91.0%	3.2%	2.3%	1.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.6%
2020	90.9%	2.8%	2.7%	1.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%
2021	88.6%	4.8%	3.0%	1.5%	1.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	87.3%	5.5%	3.1%	1.6%	1.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2023	87.1%	6.2%	3.1%	1.2%	1.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2024	85.6%	7.3%	3.4%	1.8%	1.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 91.0%. Overall it fell from 87.8% in 2009 to 85.6% in 2024, down 2.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Paramount: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 7.3% in 2024, up 5.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 4.9% to 3.4% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 3.7% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 1.8%.

Commute Start Times in Paramount

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Paramount?

The bars show when commuters in Paramount 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		9.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		3.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Paramount 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: 18.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 39.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.8%) 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 Paramount, 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 Paramount 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 Paramount 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	Paramount	California	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Paramount were on the road by 7:27 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (7:14 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Paramount now leave 11 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 Paramount has moved 5 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Paramount in the whole series.

How does Paramount's commute time compare?

Metric	Paramount	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.3 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.3%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.4%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Paramount is 25.3 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

3.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.9% in California. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Paramount, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Paramount, CA is the smallest of the 5 cities compared here, 51,757 residents against a local median of 83,732. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Paramount, CA an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 13% below the local median at 25.3 min against 29.0 min. Paramount, CA has the lowest one-way commute of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Paramount, CA	51,757	25.3 min #1/5	7.3% #3/5	7:27 AM #3/5
Bellflower, CA	76,778	27.8 min	10.1%	7:35 AM
Lynwood, CA	62,939	30.2 min	4.0%	7:20 AM
Downey, CA	112,177	27.9 min	9.1%	7:30 AM
South Gate, CA	90,685	30.9 min	7.0%	7:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Paramount, California.

Is commuting expensive in Paramount, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 211 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,534 at a typical national wage. That's 8% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

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