Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · CA · GEOID 6290002024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Garden Grove, California
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 28.5 min one way; 11.3% worked from home, 72.6% drove alone, and 7.7% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip28.5 min±1.1 min MOE
Worked from home11.3%±1.0 pp MOE
Drove alone72.6%±1.3 pp MOE
60+ minute trip7.7%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Garden Grove city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -1.0 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +4.3 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Garden Grove city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 72.6%; 1.1% used public transit and 11.3% worked from home.
Each share uses 81,779 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Garden Grove city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 74th percentile among covered 100k–500k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is higher than about 74% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 67% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 52% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The 60+ minute share is higher than about 64% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Garden Grove city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 81,779 workers age 16+, including 72,570 workers with reported travel time and 9,209 home workers.
Population estimate170,964± 82 MOE
Workers age 16+81,779± 1,495 MOE
Workers with travel time72,570± 1,513 MOE
Estimated home workers9,209± 856 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All California reports →Comparable California commute records for Garden Grove city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.