Rohnert Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Rohnert Park, 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 Rohnert Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rohnert Park spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 187 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.

Rohnert Park 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 Rohnert Park would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,321 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)
Rohnert Park	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,801	4,031
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.

Rohnert Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.5 minutes to get to work in Rohnert Park. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rohnert Park

Commute Mode Trends in Rohnert Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rohnert Park 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.1%	3.1%	2.1%	3.0%	0.2%	2.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2010	88.7%	3.2%	2.6%	2.7%	0.2%	1.9%	0.0%	0.6%
2011	88.2%	3.3%	2.5%	2.9%	0.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2012	87.3%	4.2%	1.9%	2.7%	0.8%	2.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	88.4%	4.1%	1.5%	2.7%	1.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.7%
2014	88.9%	3.7%	2.0%	2.5%	0.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.8%
2015	89.1%	3.9%	1.6%	2.1%	0.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.9%
2016	89.8%	3.6%	1.9%	1.8%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.8%
2017	90.4%	2.9%	2.3%	2.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.7%
2018	90.8%	2.9%	2.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.5%
2019	89.7%	4.2%	2.3%	1.6%	0.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%
2020	87.4%	5.8%	2.7%	1.5%	1.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%
2021	84.6%	8.4%	2.2%	1.6%	1.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%
2022	84.3%	9.9%	1.5%	1.7%	1.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%
2023	83.5%	11.2%	1.5%	1.7%	1.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%
2024	82.5%	12.4%	2.1%	1.5%	0.7%	0.5%	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 2018 at 90.8%. Overall it fell from 89.1% in 2009 to 82.5% in 2024, down 6.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Rohnert Park: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 12.4% in 2024, up 9.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 1.5% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Rohnert Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rohnert Park?

The bars show when commuters in Rohnert Park 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		6.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rohnert Park is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are about as common as in California: 16.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 46.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.2%) 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 Rohnert Park, 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 Rohnert Park 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 Rohnert Park 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	Rohnert Park	California	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:48 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:51 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:48 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:49 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:48 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:46 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:52 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:47 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:46 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rohnert Park were on the road by 7:38 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across California, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Rohnert Park now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Rohnert Park has moved 14 minutes earlier.

How does Rohnert Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Rohnert Park	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.5 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.4%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Rohnert Park is 22.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 2.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Rohnert Park, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Rohnert Park, CA	31,979	22.5 min #2/3	12.4% #2/3	7:38 AM #1/3
Santa Rosa, CA	145,148	17.8 min	11.1%	7:51 AM
Petaluma, CA	41,738	27.2 min	19.6%	7:47 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Rohnert Park, California.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 187 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,801 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Rohnert Park, 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.