Stanton Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Stanton, 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 Stanton: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stanton spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 252 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 6.7 minutes.

Stanton 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 Stanton would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,120 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)
Stanton	30.2 min	60.4 min	252 hrs/yr	$7,801	5,593
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.

Stanton Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.2 minutes to get to work in Stanton. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Stanton

Commute Mode Trends in Stanton, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Stanton 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	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	86.9%	2.0%	1.8%	2.2%	5.9%	0.2%	1.0%	0.0%
2010	87.4%	2.3%	1.0%	1.5%	6.1%	0.2%	1.4%	0.0%
2011	87.8%	2.1%	1.0%	1.4%	6.1%	0.1%	1.5%	0.0%
2012	86.5%	2.3%	0.9%	3.0%	6.0%	0.1%	1.3%	0.0%
2013	86.3%	2.2%	1.5%	3.0%	5.3%	0.1%	1.5%	0.0%
2014	87.2%	2.2%	1.5%	2.7%	4.7%	0.1%	1.6%	0.0%
2015	88.5%	2.0%	1.7%	2.7%	3.6%	0.2%	1.3%	0.0%
2016	89.2%	1.8%	2.0%	2.7%	3.0%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%
2017	92.1%	1.9%	2.0%	0.8%	2.0%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%
2018	93.6%	1.5%	1.1%	0.7%	2.1%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%
2019	92.4%	1.7%	1.0%	0.9%	2.9%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%
2020	91.5%	3.1%	1.1%	0.7%	2.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%
2021	89.2%	4.6%	1.5%	1.5%	2.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	87.2%	6.0%	1.9%	1.5%	2.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	85.9%	7.2%	2.3%	1.8%	1.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%
2024	85.1%	7.5%	2.6%	2.2%	1.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2018 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 86.9% in 2009 to 85.1% in 2024, down 1.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Stanton: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 7.5% in 2024, up 5.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.9% to 1.7% of workers (down 4.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Stanton

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Stanton?

The bars show when commuters in Stanton 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		9.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Stanton is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 11.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.4% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 20.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 36.8% 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 Stanton, 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 Stanton 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 Stanton 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	Stanton	California	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Stanton were on the road by 7:28 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). California followed the same path, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Stanton now leave 10 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Stanton's commute time compare?

Metric	Stanton	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.2 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	7.5%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Stanton is 30.2 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 2.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Stanton, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Stanton, CA is the smallest of the 5 cities compared here, 34,721 residents against a local median of 87,945. The measure that sets Stanton, CA apart most is work from home: 7.5%, 33% below the local median of 11.2%.

The cities themselves spread 9.7% on work from home, so Stanton, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Stanton, CA has the 5th highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Stanton, CA	34,721	30.2 min #5/5	7.5% #5/5	7:28 AM #1/5
Garden Grove, CA	175,431	27.4 min	10.9%	7:40 AM
Westminster, CA	90,664	23.9 min	11.5%	7:53 AM
Cypress, CA	48,412	27.5 min	20.4%	7:50 AM
Buena Park, CA	85,227	27.0 min	10.7%	7:42 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Stanton, California.

Is commuting expensive in Stanton, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 252 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,801 at a typical national wage. That's 29% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Stanton, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.