Westmont Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Westmont, 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 Westmont: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Westmont spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 264 hours, about 11.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 8.2 minutes.

Westmont 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 Westmont would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,270 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)
Westmont	31.6 min	63.3 min	264 hrs/yr	$8,174	6,114
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.

Westmont Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.6 minutes to get to work in Westmont. That's 41% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Westmont

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Westmont, versus 0.2% in California.

Walking is unusually rare in Westmont: 7.0 times less than the California average (0.3% vs 2.4%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Westmont: just 0.3%, 9.1 times below the California average of 3.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Westmont, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Westmont 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	Taxi	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	83.3%	2.5%	11.5%	0.6%	0.0%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	83.0%	3.5%	11.2%	0.6%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	81.3%	4.1%	12.6%	0.8%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	79.2%	3.7%	14.8%	1.1%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	79.3%	4.2%	14.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	77.8%	4.9%	15.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	78.7%	3.6%	15.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	81.6%	2.7%	13.2%	0.9%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	82.2%	3.0%	11.8%	1.3%	0.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2018	84.9%	1.9%	10.1%	1.5%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	85.9%	2.0%	8.2%	1.5%	0.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	85.5%	2.9%	7.5%	1.8%	0.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	82.4%	4.4%	7.3%	3.7%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	80.6%	5.5%	7.4%	4.8%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	76.9%	7.1%	8.4%	5.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	76.7%	8.8%	8.2%	5.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 85.9%. Overall it fell from 83.3% in 2009 to 76.7% in 2024, down 6.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Westmont: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 8.8% in 2024, up 6.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 11.5% to 8.2% of workers (down 3.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Westmont

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Westmont?

The bars show when commuters in Westmont 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		9.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		4.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Westmont is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 21.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in California: 38.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.8%) 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 Westmont, 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 Westmont 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 Westmont 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	Westmont	California	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Westmont were on the road by 7:29 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:17 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Westmont now leave 9 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 Westmont has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Westmont's commute time compare?

Metric	Westmont	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.6 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	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.8%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	8.2%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Westmont is 31.6 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

8.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.9% in California. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Westmont, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Westmont, CA is the 4th largest of the 5 cities compared here, 34,113 residents against a local median of 73,484. Where Westmont, CA breaks from the cities next to it is one-way commute, sitting 18% above the local median of 26.9 min at 31.6 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 8.8% against a local median of 10.5%, 16% below it. The cities themselves spread 7.0 min on one-way commute, so Westmont, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Westmont, CA has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Westmont, CA	34,113	31.6 min #5/5	8.8% #5/5	7:29 AM #2/5
Inglewood, CA	106,387	28.1 min	12.4%	7:38 AM
Gardena, CA	59,400	25.7 min	9.7%	7:45 AM
West Rancho Dominguez, CA	22,667	30.5 min	9.1%	7:24 AM
Hawthorne, CA	87,568	23.5 min	11.2%	7:48 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Westmont, California.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Westmont, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 264 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,174 at a typical national wage. That's 35% more than the typical California commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Westmont, California?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Westmont, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.