Spring Valley Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Spring Valley, Nevada: 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 Spring Valley: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Spring Valley spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 180 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Nevada average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.

Spring Valley holds about 6.8% of Nevada's population but accounts for roughly 6.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Spring Valley would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,226 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)
Spring Valley	21.5 min	43.1 min	180 hrs/yr	$5,566	4,407
Nevada	22.4 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,797	1,402
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.

Spring Valley Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.5 minutes to get to work in Spring Valley. That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Spring Valley

Biking is unusually rare in Spring Valley: 3.1 times less than the Nevada average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Spring Valley, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Spring Valley 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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.8%	3.0%	2.8%	0.9%	1.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
2010	91.2%	3.2%	3.1%	0.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2011	90.9%	3.2%	3.2%	0.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	90.5%	3.1%	3.5%	0.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2013	90.0%	3.5%	3.7%	0.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2014	89.6%	3.2%	4.1%	1.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.4%
2015	89.2%	3.5%	4.0%	1.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%
2016	89.4%	3.7%	3.6%	1.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.4%
2017	89.4%	4.2%	3.1%	1.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%
2018	89.0%	4.1%	3.7%	1.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2019	89.1%	4.5%	3.1%	1.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%
2020	88.0%	6.0%	2.8%	1.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2021	85.9%	8.2%	2.4%	1.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2022	83.9%	10.2%	2.4%	1.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2023	82.7%	12.2%	1.7%	1.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	81.2%	13.8%	1.8%	1.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 91.2%. Overall it fell from 90.8% in 2009 to 81.2% in 2024, down 9.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Spring Valley: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 13.8% in 2024, up 10.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.8% to 1.8% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Spring Valley

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Spring Valley?

The bars show when commuters in Spring Valley 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 Nevada for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		3.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		11.8%

Spring Valley Nevada Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Spring Valley is 4:00-11:59 PM, when 11.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.9% across Nevada. Early starts are less common than in Nevada: 12.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Nevada's: 37.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 38.8% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (38.5%) 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 Spring Valley, 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 Spring Valley 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 Spring Valley next to Nevada 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	Spring Valley	Nevada	United States
2009	8:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:11 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:14 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:17 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:19 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:20 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:21 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:20 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:18 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:18 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:20 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:19 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:18 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:15 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:12 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Spring Valley were on the road by 8:12 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (8:10 AM). Nevada followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Spring Valley now leave 34 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 Spring Valley has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Spring Valley's commute time compare?

Metric	Spring Valley	Nevada	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.5 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.8%	11.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.8%	2.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Spring Valley is about the same as in Nevada.

1.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.2% in Nevada. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Nevada.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Spring Valley, NV Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Spring Valley, NV is the 3rd largest of the 6 cities compared here, 217,800 residents against a local median of 186,450. Spring Valley, NV's work from home, at 13.8%, runs 17% above the 11.8% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves spread 12.2% on work from home, so Spring Valley, NV sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Spring Valley, NV has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Spring Valley, NV	217,800	21.5 min #2/6	13.8% #2/6	8:11 AM #6/6
Summerlin South, NV	29,809	22.1 min	19.3%	8:04 AM
Enterprise, NV	221,670	22.2 min	13.8%	8:04 AM
Paradise, NV	186,450	21.1 min	11.2%	8:05 AM
Winchester, NV	36,180	22.4 min	7.1%	7:57 AM
Las Vegas, NV	628,856	23.6 min	11.8%	7:38 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Spring Valley, Nevada.

Is commuting expensive in Spring Valley, Nevada?

Commuters here spend an estimated 180 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,566 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Nevada commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Spring Valley, Nevada?

Traffic peaks between 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM in Spring Valley, Nevada. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.