Wasco Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Wasco, 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 Wasco: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wasco spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 177 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.3 minutes.

Wasco 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 Wasco would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,190 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)
Wasco	21.2 min	42.4 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,474	1,310
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.

Wasco Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.2 minutes to get to work in Wasco. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 2.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wasco

Driving is 26% more common in Wasco than the California average (94.6% vs 75.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Wasco: 10.7 times less than the California average (0.3% vs 2.9%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Wasco: 6.9 times less than the California average (2.5% vs 17.2%).

Biking is essentially absent in Wasco, versus 0.7% in California.

Commute Mode Trends in Wasco, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wasco 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	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Other
2009	91.4%	1.9%	3.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	2.3%
2010	93.5%	1.4%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.2%
2011	91.8%	1.3%	2.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	3.9%
2012	91.3%	0.8%	2.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	5.2%
2013	89.8%	0.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	6.4%
2014	89.7%	0.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	7.1%
2015	89.8%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	7.6%
2016	92.1%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	5.8%
2017	92.6%	1.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	4.4%
2018	95.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	3.2%
2019	96.6%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	1.2%
2020	95.2%	3.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	95.1%	3.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	96.7%	2.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.3%	2.1%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.6%	2.5%	2.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2022 at 96.7% and lowest in 2014 at 89.7%. Overall it rose from 91.4% in 2009 to 94.6% in 2024, up 3.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wasco: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 2.5% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.9% to 2.3% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 3.5% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 2.5%.

Commute Start Times in Wasco

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wasco?

The bars show when commuters in Wasco 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		8.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		26.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		4.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wasco is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 26.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.4% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 24.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 33.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.9%) 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 Wasco, 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 Wasco 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 Wasco 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	Wasco	California	United States
2009	6:34 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:43 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:32 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:20 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:19 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:22 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:23 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:27 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:30 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wasco were on the road by 6:30 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (6:34 AM). That goes against the trend across California, where the typical commuter now leaves 6 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Wasco now leave 68 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 Wasco has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Wasco's commute time compare?

Metric	Wasco	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.2 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.5%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wasco is 21.2 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 2.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Wasco, California.

Is commuting expensive in Wasco, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 177 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,474 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Wasco, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Wasco, California?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 2.9% in California, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.