Tehama County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Tehama County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Tehama County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 152 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting.

That is 23% less time on the road than the California average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.4 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 $1,879 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	18.2 min	36.4 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,698	392
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.

Commute Time Map: California Counties

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On average, it takes 18.2 minutes to get to work in Tehama County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 72% of counties in California

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 10.2% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 86.9%
• Worked at Home: 10.2%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Other: 0.9%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Tehama County: 22.8 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 3.2%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Tehama County, versus 0.2% in California.

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Tehama County: 11.0 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

How does Tehama County's commute time compare?

Metric	Tehama County	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 min	23.6 min	22.5 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	10.2%	15.5%	13.4%
Walked	1.6%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	3.2%	3.5%

The average commute time in Tehama County is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in California.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.2% in California. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau