Rosemead Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Rosemead, 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 Rosemead: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rosemead spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 193 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.3 minutes.

Rosemead 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 Rosemead would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,393 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)
Rosemead	23.2 min	46.3 min	193 hrs/yr	$5,982	4,852
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.

Rosemead Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.2 minutes to get to work in Rosemead. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rosemead

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Rosemead: 8.1 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Rosemead, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rosemead 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	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	87.4%	2.5%	5.3%	1.9%	1.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.2%	2.8%	5.2%	1.3%	1.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	88.6%	3.1%	4.9%	1.1%	1.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.6%	4.1%	4.2%	0.8%	1.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	89.4%	4.3%	3.3%	0.5%	1.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	88.7%	4.8%	2.9%	0.6%	2.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	89.5%	4.9%	2.4%	0.4%	2.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	89.0%	5.3%	2.7%	0.5%	2.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	89.6%	4.7%	2.5%	0.6%	1.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	89.4%	5.3%	2.4%	0.7%	1.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2019	91.4%	4.1%	2.3%	0.6%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	90.8%	4.2%	2.1%	1.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	89.2%	6.1%	1.7%	1.2%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	87.7%	7.6%	1.5%	1.2%	0.8%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	86.7%	7.9%	1.8%	1.2%	1.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	86.4%	9.0%	1.4%	1.1%	1.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 91.4%. Overall it fell from 87.4% in 2009 to 86.4% in 2024, down 1.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Rosemead: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 6.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.3% to 1.4% of workers (down 3.9 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 Rosemead

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rosemead?

The bars show when commuters in Rosemead 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		4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		4.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		6.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		22.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		9.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		13.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		7.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rosemead is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 22.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 10.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush looks much like California's: 43.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (31.8%) 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 Rosemead, 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 Rosemead 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 Rosemead 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	Rosemead	California	United States
2009	8:05 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:05 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:05 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:08 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:08 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:09 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:11 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:12 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:12 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:10 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:11 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:15 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:18 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:18 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rosemead were on the road by 8:18 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (8:05 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Rosemead now leave 40 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 Rosemead has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Rosemead's commute time compare?

Metric	Rosemead	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.2 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	09:00 AM – 09:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.0%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	2.9%	3.2%

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

1.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Rosemead, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Rosemead, CA is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 50,370 residents against a local median of 36,611. Rosemead, CA's work from home, at 9.0%, runs 47% below the 17.0% typical of the cities around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 23.2 min against a local median of 27.8 min, 17% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 17% below the local median it puts Rosemead, CA at the better end of the local range. The cities themselves sit within 3.9% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Rosemead, CA, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Rosemead, CA has the 4th highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Rosemead, CA	50,370	23.2 min #1/4	9.0% #4/4	8:18 AM #2/4
San Gabriel, CA	40,046	26.8 min	13.3%	8:23 AM
Temple City, CA	36,611	27.8 min	17.1%	8:21 AM
East San Gabriel, CA	20,561	28.0 min	17.0%	8:17 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Rosemead, California.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 193 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,982 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Rosemead, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.