Willowbrook Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Willowbrook, 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 Willowbrook: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Willowbrook spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 263 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 8.0 minutes.

Willowbrook 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 Willowbrook would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,255 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)
Willowbrook	31.5 min	63.0 min	263 hrs/yr	$8,138	5,429
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.

Willowbrook Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.5 minutes to get to work in Willowbrook. 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 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Willowbrook

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

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Willowbrook: 593.2 times less than the California average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Willowbrook: 5.7 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Willowbrook, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Willowbrook 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	85.9%	2.4%	9.2%	0.7%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	86.4%	3.9%	6.6%	0.6%	1.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.4%	4.2%	5.9%	0.9%	1.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	85.2%	4.6%	6.9%	1.0%	1.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	86.1%	3.3%	6.5%	1.1%	2.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	85.1%	2.2%	8.3%	1.4%	2.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	86.5%	1.6%	8.1%	0.8%	2.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	85.6%	3.4%	7.3%	1.1%	2.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	85.6%	4.3%	5.8%	1.7%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	87.0%	4.6%	5.1%	1.0%	1.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.1%	4.9%	3.4%	1.5%	2.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.8%	6.2%	3.5%	1.5%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.9%	4.6%	3.4%	2.3%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.7%	5.9%	3.5%	2.1%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.0%	8.2%	3.1%	2.2%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.4%	8.9%	2.8%	2.5%	2.2%	0.1%	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 87.1%. Overall it fell from 85.9% in 2009 to 83.4% in 2024, down 2.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Willowbrook: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 8.9% in 2024, up 6.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 9.2% to 2.8% of workers (down 6.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Willowbrook

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Willowbrook?

The bars show when commuters in Willowbrook 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		10.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Willowbrook is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% 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: 39.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.7%) 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 Willowbrook, 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 Willowbrook 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 Willowbrook 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	Willowbrook	California	United States
2009	7:09 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:12 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:10 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Willowbrook were on the road by 7:18 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:09 AM). The shift is sharper than across California, where the typical start moved 6 minutes later. Commuters in Willowbrook now leave 20 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 Willowbrook has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Willowbrook's commute time compare?

Metric	Willowbrook	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.5 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.9%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.8%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Willowbrook is 31.5 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

2.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 2.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Willowbrook, CA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Willowbrook, CA is the smallest of the 5 cities compared here, 21,745 residents against a local median of 61,451. Willowbrook, CA's work from home, at 8.9%, runs 76% above the 5.0% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves spread 5.1% on work from home, so Willowbrook, CA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Willowbrook, CA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Willowbrook, CA	21,745	31.5 min #4/5	8.9% #2/5	7:18 AM #1/5
Compton, CA	94,573	30.3 min	4.9%	7:26 AM
Lynwood, CA	62,939	30.2 min	4.0%	7:20 AM
West Rancho Dominguez, CA	22,667	30.5 min	9.1%	7:24 AM
Florence-Graham, CA	59,963	31.7 min	5.2%	7:32 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Willowbrook, California.

Is commuting expensive in Willowbrook, California?

Commuters here spend an estimated 263 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,138 at a typical national wage. That's 34% more than the typical California commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Willowbrook, California. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.