West Sacramento Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in West Sacramento, 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 West Sacramento: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in West Sacramento spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 174 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

West Sacramento 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 West Sacramento would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,155 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)
West Sacramento	20.9 min	41.7 min	174 hrs/yr	$5,386	3,314
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.

West Sacramento Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.9 minutes to get to work in West Sacramento. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 18.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in West Sacramento

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

Commute Mode Trends in West Sacramento, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in West Sacramento 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	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	92.2%	2.2%	1.6%	1.3%	1.1%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	91.5%	2.7%	1.5%	1.1%	1.7%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	91.1%	3.0%	1.6%	0.7%	1.4%	1.3%	0.9%	0.0%
2012	91.0%	4.0%	1.3%	0.6%	1.3%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%
2013	90.1%	4.2%	1.2%	0.6%	2.0%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%
2014	89.8%	3.9%	1.6%	0.5%	1.8%	1.8%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	90.2%	3.5%	1.9%	0.3%	1.9%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%
2016	90.0%	3.5%	1.8%	0.3%	2.0%	1.8%	0.5%	0.0%
2017	88.9%	3.8%	1.9%	0.8%	2.1%	1.9%	0.5%	0.1%
2018	88.6%	4.4%	1.9%	0.9%	1.9%	1.8%	0.5%	0.1%
2019	89.3%	4.3%	1.4%	0.7%	2.2%	1.5%	0.4%	0.2%
2020	85.4%	8.0%	1.0%	1.0%	2.1%	1.6%	0.7%	0.2%
2021	82.7%	11.3%	1.3%	1.0%	1.7%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%
2022	81.1%	13.8%	1.1%	1.4%	1.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	75.5%	18.2%	2.3%	1.8%	1.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%
2024	76.5%	18.5%	1.9%	1.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2023 at 75.5%. Overall it fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 76.5% in 2024, down 15.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in West Sacramento: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 18.5% in 2024, up 16.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Public transit overtook biking to become the 5th most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 2.2% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 1.0%.

Commute Start Times in West Sacramento

What Time Do People Leave for Work in West Sacramento?

The bars show when commuters in West Sacramento 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		6.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in West Sacramento is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across California. Early starts are less common than in California: 14.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in California: 49.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 West Sacramento, 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 West Sacramento 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 West Sacramento 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	West Sacramento	California	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:37 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in West Sacramento were on the road by 7:42 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (7:29 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in West Sacramento now leave 4 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 West Sacramento has moved 3 minutes later.

How does West Sacramento's commute time compare?

Metric	West Sacramento	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.9 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	18.5%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in West Sacramento is 20.9 minutes, shorter than the 23.5 minutes in California.

1.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 1.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

West Sacramento, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How West Sacramento, CA compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
West Sacramento, CA	51,778	20.9 min #1/2	18.5% #2/2	7:42 AM #1/2
Sacramento, CA	518,007	21.7 min	19.4%	7:50 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in West Sacramento, California.

Is living in West Sacramento, California good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 174 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,386 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical California commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in West Sacramento, California?

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