Rowland Heights Commute Time Map & Patterns

Help

Commuting in Rowland Heights, California: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

You 9/24/26, 3:44 PM

What does a typical morning commute look like in Rowland Heights?

Map AI 9/24/26, 3:44 PM

Commute Time Burden in Rowland Heights: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rowland Heights spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 258 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 7.5 minutes.

Rowland Heights 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 Rowland Heights would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,198 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)
Rowland Heights	31.0 min	61.9 min	258 hrs/yr	$7,996	3,798
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.

Rowland Heights Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.0 minutes to get to work in Rowland Heights. That's 38% 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 14.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rowland Heights

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Rowland Heights: 42.9 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Rowland Heights, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rowland Heights 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	Bicycle	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.1%	5.9%	2.8%	2.1%	1.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	86.5%	6.6%	3.0%	2.1%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	84.2%	6.3%	4.3%	2.8%	0.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	85.1%	6.0%	4.1%	3.0%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	85.6%	5.5%	4.4%	2.8%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	85.0%	6.2%	4.1%	2.8%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	85.4%	6.5%	3.7%	2.5%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	88.0%	6.1%	3.2%	1.4%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	88.6%	7.1%	2.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	88.9%	7.4%	1.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	89.4%	6.8%	2.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	89.0%	7.4%	2.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	87.7%	8.9%	1.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	85.6%	10.9%	1.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	83.6%	12.4%	2.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	81.4%	14.5%	1.8%	1.0%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	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 89.4%. Overall it fell from 87.1% in 2009 to 81.4% in 2024, down 5.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Rowland Heights: its share of workers rose from 5.9% in 2009 to 14.5% in 2024, up 8.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 1.0% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 4.4% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 1.8%.

Commute Start Times in Rowland Heights

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rowland Heights?

The bars show when commuters in Rowland Heights 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		6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		5.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		14.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		13.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		6.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rowland Heights is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across California. Early starts are about as common as in California: 14.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 38.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (34.7%) 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 Rowland Heights, 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 Rowland Heights 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 Rowland Heights 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	Rowland Heights	California	United States
2009	8:02 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:06 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:11 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:11 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:10 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:11 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:11 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:16 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:17 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:19 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:13 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:12 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:13 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rowland Heights were on the road by 8:13 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (8:02 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Rowland Heights now leave 35 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 Rowland Heights has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Rowland Heights's commute time compare?

Metric	Rowland Heights	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.0 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	14.5%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.8%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Rowland Heights is 31.0 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.8% 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

Rowland Heights, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Rowland Heights, CA compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Rowland Heights, CA	44,324	31.0 min #3/3	14.5% #3/3	8:13 AM #2/3
Brea, CA	42,002	28.3 min	14.7%	7:49 AM
Walnut, CA	27,757	30.8 min	19.6%	8:15 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Rowland Heights, California.

Is commuting expensive in Rowland Heights, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 258 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,996 at a typical national wage. That's 32% more than the typical California commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Rowland Heights, California?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Rowland Heights, 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.