Siskiyou County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Siskiyou County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Siskiyou County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 135 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 7.3 minutes.

Siskiyou County 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 Siskiyou County would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,673 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)
Siskiyou County	16.2 min	32.4 min	135 hrs/yr	$4,183	251
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.

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On average, it takes 16.2 minutes to get to work in Siskiyou County. That's 28% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 82% of counties in California

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Siskiyou County

• Car: 83.0%
• Worked at Home: 11.8%
• Walked: 3.6%
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Siskiyou County: 5.0 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Siskiyou County: 5.3 times less than the California average (0.5% vs 2.9%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Siskiyou County, versus 0.2% in California.

Biking is unusually rare in Siskiyou County: 4.2 times less than the California average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Siskiyou County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Siskiyou County 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
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• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	84.8%	7.4%	4.8%	1.0%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	84.8%	7.4%	4.8%	1.0%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	84.5%	7.8%	4.8%	1.0%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	83.3%	8.4%	5.7%	1.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	83.3%	9.2%	5.2%	1.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	83.5%	8.5%	5.4%	0.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	84.6%	8.0%	5.1%	0.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	84.1%	8.9%	4.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	84.3%	8.9%	4.9%	0.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	83.4%	9.5%	5.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	84.2%	9.6%	4.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	84.6%	9.4%	4.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	84.2%	9.3%	4.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.9%	9.5%	3.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.7%	10.2%	3.4%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	83.0%	11.8%	3.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2022 at 84.9%. Overall it fell from 84.8% in 2009 to 83.0% in 2024, down 1.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Siskiyou County: its share of workers rose from 7.4% in 2009 to 11.8% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.8% to 3.6% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Siskiyou County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Siskiyou County?

The bars show when commuters in Siskiyou County 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	12:00-4:59 AM Siskiyou County4.7% California6.7%	4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Siskiyou County3.9% California4.5%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Siskiyou County4.4% California4.5%	4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Siskiyou County8.1% California8.4%	8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Siskiyou County10.9% California7.5%	10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Siskiyou County14.9% California13.1%	14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Siskiyou County16.2% California10.2%	16.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Siskiyou County10.3% California12.6%	10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Siskiyou County3.8% California5.8%	3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Siskiyou County5.9% California8.6%	5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Siskiyou County4.0% California3.9%	4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Siskiyou County2.0% California1.8%	2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Siskiyou County5.4% California6.9%	5.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Siskiyou County5.5% California5.5%	5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Siskiyou County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 13.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 52.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Siskiyou County, 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 Siskiyou County 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 Siskiyou County 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.

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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Siskiyou County	California	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:42 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:47 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 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	7:38 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Siskiyou County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:41 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Siskiyou County now leave 2 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Siskiyou County has moved 3 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Siskiyou County in the whole series.

How does Siskiyou County's commute time compare?

Metric	Siskiyou County	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.2 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.8%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	3.6%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Siskiyou County is 16.2 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 3.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau