Yuba County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Yuba County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Yuba County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 252 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the California average of 23.5 minutes each way, a difference of 6.7 minutes.

Yuba County holds about 0.2% of California's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Yuba County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,123 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)
Yuba County	30.2 min	60.4 min	252 hrs/yr	$7,808	1,066
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.

Commute Time Map: California Counties

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On average, it takes 30.2 minutes to get to work in Yuba County. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in California

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 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Yuba County

• Car: 88.7%
• Worked at Home: 8.7%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
• Other: 0.4%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%

Public transit is unusually rare in Yuba County: 6.1 times less than the California average (0.5% vs 2.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Yuba County: 4.7 times less than the California average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Yuba County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Yuba County 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
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.1%	4.6%	2.2%	1.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.4%
2010	89.7%	4.9%	2.6%	0.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2011	89.5%	4.7%	2.6%	0.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%
2012	89.1%	5.2%	2.6%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.7%	0.5%
2013	89.1%	5.3%	2.5%	1.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.5%
2014	89.8%	5.0%	2.5%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.5%
2015	90.3%	5.0%	1.5%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.5%
2016	90.9%	5.2%	1.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.5%
2017	91.7%	4.8%	1.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2018	90.9%	4.9%	1.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%
2019	91.2%	5.0%	1.4%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2020	91.5%	5.3%	1.4%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2021	91.1%	5.5%	1.6%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	90.6%	6.4%	1.3%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2023	88.7%	8.4%	1.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	88.7%	8.7%	1.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2017 at 91.7%. Overall it fell from 90.1% in 2009 to 88.7% in 2024, down 1.4 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Yuba County: its share of workers rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 8.7% in 2024, up 4.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Yuba County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Yuba County?

The bars show when commuters in Yuba County 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 Yuba County9.4% California6.7%	9.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Yuba County7.0% California4.5%	7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Yuba County5.5% California4.5%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Yuba County11.5% California8.4%	11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Yuba County10.8% California7.5%	10.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Yuba County12.6% California13.1%	12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Yuba County12.5% California10.2%	12.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Yuba County7.9% California12.6%	7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Yuba County2.7% California5.8%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Yuba County4.4% California8.6%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Yuba County3.0% California3.9%	3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Yuba County1.3% California1.8%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Yuba County6.2% California6.9%	6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Yuba County5.3% California5.5%	5.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Yuba County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across California. Early starts are more common than in California: 21.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.8% there. The morning rush looks much like California's: 43.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.2%) 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 Yuba County, 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 Yuba County 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 Yuba County 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.

• Yuba County
• California
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Yuba County	California	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Yuba County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:13 AM). Across California the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 6 minutes later. Commuters in Yuba County now leave 24 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 Yuba County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Yuba County's commute time compare?

Metric	Yuba County	California	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.2 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	8.7%	17.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	2.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Yuba County is 30.2 minutes, longer than the 23.5 minutes in California.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.9% in California. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.4% in California.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau