Santa Fe Springs Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Santa Fe Springs: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Santa Fe Springs spend about 58 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 241 hours, about 10.0 full days, spent commuting.

That is 22% more time on the road than the California average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.3 minutes.

Santa Fe Springs 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 Santa Fe Springs would save about 96 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,983 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)
Santa Fe Springs	28.9 min	57.7 min	241 hrs/yr	$7,457	3,545
California	23.6 min	47.2 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,099	2,449
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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.

Santa Fe Springs Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.9 minutes to get to work in Santa Fe Springs. That's 28% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 13.1% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 83.9%
• Worked at Home: 13.1%
• Public Transportation: 1.5%
• Other: 0.8%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walked commuting is unusually low in Santa Fe Springs: 7.4 times less than the California average (0.3% vs 2.4%).

Taxi commuting is unusually low in Santa Fe Springs: 7.4 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Santa Fe Springs: 9.6 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Santa Fe Springs: just 0.4%, 7.8 times below the California average of 3.1%.

How does Santa Fe Springs's commute time compare?

Metric	Santa Fe Springs	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.9 min	23.6 min	22.5 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	13.1%	15.5%	13.4%
Walked	0.3%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	3.2%	3.5%

The average commute time in Santa Fe Springs is 28.9 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in California.

1.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.2% in California. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau