Tehama County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Tehama County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Tehama County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 153 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

Tehama County holds about 0.2% of California's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Tehama County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,898 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)
Tehama County	18.4 min	36.7 min	153 hrs/yr	$4,744	392
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.

Commute Time Map: California Counties

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On average, it takes 18.4 minutes to get to work in Tehama County. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 70% 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 11.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Tehama County

• Car: 86.5%
• Worked at Home: 11.1%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Tehama County: 5.4 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Tehama County: 22.4 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 2.9%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Tehama County: 5.8 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Tehama County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Tehama 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
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.0%	5.8%	2.5%	0.8%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	87.9%	6.2%	2.9%	0.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.7%
2011	87.5%	6.3%	3.2%	0.8%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.8%
2012	88.1%	5.8%	2.6%	1.1%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	1.0%
2013	89.0%	5.6%	2.6%	0.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.9%
2014	88.2%	5.6%	2.9%	1.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.9%
2015	88.8%	5.0%	3.8%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	91.0%	4.4%	2.8%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	90.7%	4.7%	2.9%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	90.5%	5.3%	2.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	91.1%	4.8%	2.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	91.3%	5.4%	1.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	91.1%	6.3%	1.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	88.6%	9.0%	1.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	86.9%	10.2%	1.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	86.5%	11.1%	1.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2020 at 91.3%. Overall it fell from 89.0% in 2009 to 86.5% in 2024, down 2.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Tehama County: its share of workers rose from 5.8% in 2009 to 11.1% in 2024, up 5.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.1% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Tehama County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Tehama County?

The bars show when commuters in Tehama 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 Tehama County12.0% California6.7%	12.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Tehama County5.8% California4.5%	5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Tehama County3.7% California4.5%	3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Tehama County8.1% California8.4%	8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Tehama County7.5% California7.5%	7.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Tehama County12.8% California13.1%	12.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Tehama County15.7% California10.2%	15.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Tehama County7.9% California12.6%	7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Tehama County4.8% California5.8%	4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Tehama County3.2% California8.6%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Tehama County2.6% California3.9%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Tehama County2.7% California1.8%	2.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Tehama County8.0% California6.9%	8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Tehama County5.2% California5.5%	5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Tehama County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 21.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush looks much like California's: 44.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.7%) 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 Tehama 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 Tehama 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 Tehama 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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• California
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Tehama County	California	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Tehama County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:29 AM). Across California the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Tehama County now leave 7 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 Tehama County has moved 5 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Tehama County in the whole series.

How does Tehama County's commute time compare?

Metric	Tehama County	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.4 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	11.1%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Tehama County is 18.4 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau