Temple City Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Temple City, 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 Temple City: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Temple City spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 232 hours, about 9.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 4.3 minutes.

Temple City 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 Temple City would save about 93 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,875 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)
Temple City	27.8 min	55.6 min	232 hrs/yr	$7,187	4,237
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.

Temple City Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.8 minutes to get to work in Temple City. That's 24% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 17.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Temple City

Commute Mode Trends in Temple City, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Temple City 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	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.5%	4.8%	2.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%
2010	89.9%	5.4%	2.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2011	89.5%	5.2%	3.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%
2012	90.1%	4.7%	3.1%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2013	89.4%	5.3%	3.3%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2014	89.1%	5.1%	3.4%	0.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	89.6%	4.3%	3.2%	0.8%	1.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	89.5%	5.3%	3.1%	0.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	89.4%	5.1%	3.0%	1.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	89.4%	5.1%	2.8%	1.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%
2019	89.3%	5.5%	3.1%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	85.8%	8.8%	3.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2021	82.4%	11.3%	3.3%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2022	80.0%	13.9%	3.2%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2023	77.7%	16.5%	3.4%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2024	77.1%	17.1%	2.8%	1.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.5% in 2009 to 77.1% in 2024, down 13.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Temple City: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 17.1% in 2024, up 12.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking overtook biking to become the 5th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Temple City

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Temple City?

The bars show when commuters in Temple City 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		2.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		8.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		11.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		14.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		7.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		3.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Temple City is 9:00-9:59 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.6% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 9.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 38.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (35.0%) 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 Temple City, 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 Temple City 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 Temple City 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	Temple City	California	United States
2009	8:11 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:10 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:10 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:08 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:06 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:06 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:08 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:09 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:10 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:10 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:12 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:15 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:18 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:21 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Temple City were on the road by 8:21 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (8:11 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Temple City now leave 43 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Temple City has moved 11 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Temple City in the whole series.

How does Temple City's commute time compare?

Metric	Temple City	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.8 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	09:00 AM – 09:59 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	17.1%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.8%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Temple City is 27.8 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

2.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Temple City, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Temple City, CA is the 3rd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 36,611 residents against a local median of 59,130. Nothing separates Temple City, CA sharply from the cities around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 3% above the local median at 27.8 min against 27.0 min. Temple City, CA has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Temple City, CA	36,611	27.8 min #3/4	17.1% #2/4	8:21 AM #4/4
East San Gabriel, CA	20,561	28.0 min	17.0%	8:17 AM
Arcadia, CA	59,130	27.0 min	22.1%	8:14 AM
El Monte, CA	103,551	23.8 min	6.6%	7:44 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Temple City, California.

Is living in Temple City, California good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 232 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,187 at a typical national wage. That's 19% more than the typical California commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Temple City, California?

Traffic peaks between 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM in Temple City, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.