Pittsburg Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pittsburg, 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 Pittsburg: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pittsburg spend about 66 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 276 hours, about 11.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 9.7 minutes.

Pittsburg holds about 0.2% of California's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pittsburg would save about 111 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,429 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)
Pittsburg	33.2 min	66.4 min	276 hrs/yr	$8,571	3,005
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.

Pittsburg Commute Map

On average, it takes 33.2 minutes to get to work in Pittsburg. That's 48% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pittsburg

Walking is unusually rare in Pittsburg: 3.1 times less than the California average (0.8% vs 2.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Pittsburg: 16.1 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Pittsburg: just 0.8%, 3.8 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Pittsburg, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pittsburg 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	84.1%	4.2%	8.0%	1.9%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	84.9%	4.5%	7.6%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	86.7%	3.0%	7.1%	1.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2012	85.8%	3.5%	8.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2013	85.2%	3.1%	8.2%	1.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.5%
2014	84.6%	2.5%	9.1%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.5%
2015	84.6%	2.8%	9.1%	1.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2016	84.3%	2.9%	9.1%	1.7%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2017	85.2%	3.1%	8.1%	1.7%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	83.9%	3.9%	9.0%	1.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	83.0%	3.8%	9.6%	2.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	82.5%	4.4%	10.2%	1.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	82.6%	6.2%	8.5%	1.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	84.0%	6.1%	7.4%	1.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.4%	6.8%	6.3%	1.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	84.9%	8.1%	5.4%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2011 at 86.7% and lowest in 2020 at 82.5%. Overall it rose from 84.1% in 2009 to 84.9% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pittsburg: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 8.1% in 2024, up 3.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 8.0% to 5.4% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Pittsburg

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pittsburg?

The bars show when commuters in Pittsburg 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		12.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pittsburg is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 12.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.7% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 24.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 34.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (28.8%) 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 Pittsburg, 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 Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg 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	Pittsburg	California	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:07 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pittsburg were on the road by 7:25 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:15 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg has moved 14 minutes later.

How does Pittsburg's commute time compare?

Metric	Pittsburg	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.2 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.1%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	5.4%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pittsburg is 33.2 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

5.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.9% in California. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pittsburg, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Pittsburg, CA compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pittsburg, CA	63,976	33.2 min #2/3	8.1% #3/3	7:25 AM #2/3
Antioch, CA	105,266	36.8 min	12.8%	7:15 AM
Concord, CA	124,111	27.2 min	17.4%	7:42 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pittsburg, California.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 276 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,571 at a typical national wage. That's 41% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Pittsburg, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.