Pleasant Hill Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pleasant 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 Pleasant Hill: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pleasant Hill spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Pleasant 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 Pleasant Hill would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,385 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)
Pleasant Hill	23.1 min	46.2 min	192 hrs/yr	$5,962	4,304
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.

Pleasant Hill Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.1 minutes to get to work in Pleasant Hill. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 25.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pleasant Hill

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Pleasant Hill: 54.5 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Pleasant Hill, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pleasant 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	80.5%	5.3%	10.1%	2.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	79.6%	5.8%	10.3%	2.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	79.7%	6.3%	10.4%	2.2%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	77.3%	6.9%	12.6%	1.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	75.8%	7.4%	13.5%	1.9%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	76.4%	7.1%	13.6%	1.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	76.2%	6.9%	13.7%	1.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	75.1%	7.2%	14.1%	2.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	75.4%	6.4%	14.5%	1.8%	0.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	75.0%	6.2%	14.6%	2.0%	1.1%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	74.4%	6.8%	14.7%	1.9%	1.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	73.7%	9.4%	12.2%	2.0%	1.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	69.8%	16.2%	9.8%	1.7%	1.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	69.2%	19.0%	6.7%	2.0%	2.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	68.0%	22.8%	4.7%	2.7%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	65.4%	25.9%	3.8%	2.8%	1.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 80.5% in 2009 to 65.4% in 2024, down 15.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pleasant Hill: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 25.9% in 2024, up 20.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 19.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 10.1% to 3.8% of workers (down 6.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Pleasant Hill

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pleasant Hill?

The bars show when commuters in Pleasant 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		4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		14.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		9.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pleasant Hill is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 11.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 45.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.3%) 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 Pleasant 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 Pleasant 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 Pleasant 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	Pleasant Hill	California	United States
2009	7:47 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:49 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:52 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:49 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:48 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:41 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:55 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pleasant Hill were on the road by 7:55 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:47 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Pleasant Hill now leave 17 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 Pleasant Hill has moved 16 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Pleasant Hill in the whole series.

How does Pleasant Hill's commute time compare?

Metric	Pleasant Hill	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.1 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	25.9%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.8%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.8%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pleasant Hill is about the same as in California.

3.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.9% in California. 2.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pleasant Hill, California.

Is commuting expensive in Pleasant Hill, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 192 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,962 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Pleasant 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.

Is Pleasant Hill, California a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 25.9% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Pleasant Hill would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,385 at the same national wage assumption used above.