Roseville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Roseville, 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 Roseville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Roseville spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 181 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Roseville holds about 0.3% of California's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Roseville would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,241 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)
Roseville	21.7 min	43.4 min	181 hrs/yr	$5,602	4,238
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.

Roseville Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.7 minutes to get to work in Roseville. That's 3% shorter than 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 23.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Roseville

Public transit is unusually rare in Roseville: 4.9 times less than the California average (0.6% vs 2.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Roseville: 3.5 times less than the California average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Roseville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Roseville 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	89.7%	6.1%	0.5%	1.3%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	89.8%	6.2%	0.6%	1.3%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	89.1%	6.0%	0.7%	1.6%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%
2012	88.8%	6.1%	0.9%	1.6%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.8%
2013	88.3%	6.1%	0.8%	1.8%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	1.0%
2014	88.3%	6.6%	0.8%	1.8%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	1.0%
2015	88.2%	6.4%	0.7%	1.9%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	1.1%
2016	88.1%	6.9%	0.8%	1.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%
2017	87.3%	7.8%	0.7%	1.6%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%
2018	86.4%	9.0%	0.8%	1.6%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	86.5%	8.9%	0.8%	1.5%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	82.4%	13.9%	0.7%	1.1%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	79.3%	17.0%	0.7%	1.0%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	77.5%	18.8%	0.8%	1.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%
2023	75.2%	21.2%	0.9%	1.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%
2024	73.3%	23.5%	1.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 89.8%. Overall it fell from 89.7% in 2009 to 73.3% in 2024, down 16.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Roseville: its share of workers rose from 6.1% in 2009 to 23.5% in 2024, up 17.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.6% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Roseville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Roseville?

The bars show when commuters in Roseville 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		5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Roseville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 13.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 46.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.5%) 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 Roseville, 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 Roseville 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 Roseville 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	Roseville	California	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:43 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Roseville were on the road by 7:43 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:34 AM). California followed the same path, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Roseville now leave 5 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 Roseville has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Roseville's commute time compare?

Metric	Roseville	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.7 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	23.5%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Roseville is 21.7 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Roseville, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Roseville, CA is the largest of the 6 cities compared here, 133,239 residents against a local median of 49,393. Where Roseville, CA breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 38% above the local median of 17.0% at 23.5%.

The cities themselves spread 11.4% on work from home, so Roseville, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Roseville, CA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Roseville, CA	133,239	21.7 min #2/6	23.5% #2/6	7:42 AM #5/6
Antelope, CA	49,393	27.0 min	17.0%	7:32 AM
Rocklin, CA	65,025	20.2 min	24.1%	7:45 AM
Citrus Heights, CA	86,009	23.3 min	17.0%	7:39 AM
Foothill Farms, CA	35,501	23.5 min	12.7%	7:42 AM
Lincoln, CA	43,132	23.4 min	22.8%	7:27 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Roseville, California.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Roseville, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 181 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,602 at a typical national wage. That's 8% less than the typical California commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Roseville, California?

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

How common is public transit use in Roseville, California?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.6% of commuters use it versus 2.9% in California, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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

About 23.5% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Roseville would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,241 at the same national wage assumption used above.