Pomona Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pomona, 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 Pomona: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pomona spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 235 hours, about 9.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 4.7 minutes.

Pomona holds about 0.4% of California's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pomona would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,915 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)
Pomona	28.2 min	56.4 min	235 hrs/yr	$7,288	3,021
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.

Pomona Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.2 minutes to get to work in Pomona. That's 26% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pomona

Commute Mode Trends in Pomona, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pomona 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	88.9%	2.6%	4.5%	2.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%
2010	88.7%	3.0%	4.3%	2.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.2%
2011	89.0%	3.0%	4.0%	2.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2012	88.7%	3.4%	3.7%	2.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%
2013	88.5%	3.6%	3.4%	2.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%
2014	88.1%	3.6%	3.3%	2.7%	0.8%	0.0%	1.0%	0.4%
2015	88.0%	3.9%	3.3%	2.6%	0.8%	0.0%	1.0%	0.4%
2016	88.4%	4.0%	3.0%	2.5%	0.7%	0.0%	1.0%	0.4%
2017	89.3%	4.0%	2.6%	2.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.8%	0.4%
2018	89.6%	3.8%	2.6%	1.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.9%	0.3%
2019	89.4%	4.0%	2.6%	1.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.9%	0.2%
2020	88.8%	4.9%	2.6%	1.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%
2021	87.7%	6.4%	2.3%	1.6%	0.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%
2022	86.5%	7.5%	2.3%	1.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%
2023	85.9%	8.8%	1.9%	1.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%
2024	85.6%	9.2%	1.9%	1.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2018 at 89.6%. Overall it fell from 88.9% in 2009 to 85.6% in 2024, down 3.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pomona: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 9.2% in 2024, up 6.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 4.5% to 1.9% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Pomona

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pomona?

The bars show when commuters in Pomona 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		10.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pomona is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 11.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 22.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 35.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.7%) 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 Pomona, 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 Pomona 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 Pomona 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	Pomona	California	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pomona were on the road by 7:27 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Pomona now leave 10 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 Pomona has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Pomona's commute time compare?

Metric	Pomona	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.2 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.2%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.9%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pomona is 28.2 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pomona, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Pomona, CA is the largest of the 6 cities compared here, 148,496 residents against a local median of 36,112. Where Pomona, CA breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 50% below the local median of 18.4% at 9.2%.

The cities themselves spread 18.7% on work from home, so Pomona, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Pomona, CA has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pomona, CA	148,496	28.2 min #5/6	9.2% #5/6	7:27 AM #2/6
La Verne, CA	29,835	27.3 min	22.9%	7:35 AM
Montclair, CA	38,094	25.9 min	6.0%	7:25 AM
San Dimas, CA	34,372	25.6 min	16.6%	7:41 AM
Diamond Bar, CA	46,382	31.4 min	18.4%	8:14 AM
Claremont, CA	36,112	22.2 min	24.8%	8:01 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pomona, California.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Pomona, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 235 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,288 at a typical national wage. That's 20% more than the typical California commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Pomona, California?

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