Turlock Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Turlock: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Turlock spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 171 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 3.0 minutes.

Turlock 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 Turlock would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,119 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)
Turlock	20.5 min	41.0 min	171 hrs/yr	$5,299	2,741
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.

Turlock Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.5 minutes to get to work in Turlock. That's 8% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Turlock

• Car: 87.0%
• Worked at Home: 7.9%
• Walked: 2.6%
• Other: 2.1%
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Turlock: 4.1 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Turlock: 19.4 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 2.9%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Turlock: 4.4 times less than the California average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Turlock, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Turlock 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Taxi

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	92.1%	3.8%	2.4%	0.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	92.2%	4.1%	2.2%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	91.3%	4.3%	2.7%	0.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	92.2%	3.8%	2.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	92.3%	3.9%	2.0%	0.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	91.9%	3.9%	1.7%	0.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	92.6%	3.2%	1.6%	0.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	92.6%	3.0%	1.5%	1.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	92.2%	3.1%	1.5%	1.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	91.6%	3.0%	1.7%	2.2%	0.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	92.0%	2.9%	1.4%	2.2%	0.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	90.9%	3.9%	1.5%	2.3%	0.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	89.7%	4.9%	1.5%	2.8%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	89.0%	5.5%	2.1%	2.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	87.7%	7.4%	2.2%	2.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.0%	7.9%	2.6%	2.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 92.6%. Overall it fell from 92.1% in 2009 to 87.0% in 2024, down 5.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Turlock: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 7.9% in 2024, up 4.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Turlock

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Turlock?

The bars show when commuters in Turlock 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 Turlock10.5% California6.7%	10.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Turlock3.8% California4.5%	3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Turlock4.7% California4.5%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Turlock8.0% California8.4%	8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Turlock9.3% California7.5%	9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Turlock13.1% California13.1%	13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Turlock11.7% California10.2%	11.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Turlock9.0% California12.6%	9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Turlock3.8% California5.8%	3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Turlock5.0% California8.6%	5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Turlock2.6% California3.9%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Turlock1.7% California1.8%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Turlock8.0% California6.9%	8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Turlock8.8% California5.5%	8.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Turlock is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 19.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush looks much like California's: 43.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.1%) 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 Turlock, 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 Turlock 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 Turlock 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.

• Turlock
• California
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Turlock	California	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Turlock were on the road by 7:32 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Turlock now leave 6 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 Turlock has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Turlock's commute time compare?

Metric	Turlock	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.5 min	23.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.9%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.6%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Turlock is 20.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 2.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau