While most of SoCal is known for terrible, awful, ridiculous traffic – The Coachella Valley is not (unless you get caught behind a damn snowbird). As it would turn out, not only is The Desert way better off traffic-wise from the rest of SoCal, it is actually better than the nationwide average commute (well except one valley city).
A cool, interactive map lets you search the entire United States by zip code to determine how long your commute is. And while the U.S. average is a 25.4 minute drive to work, these are some of the commute times in The Coachella Valley:
Cathedral City (92234): 19.4 minutes
Indio (92201): 20.2 minutes
Coachella (92236): 20.4 minutes
Palm Springs (92264): 21.3 minutes
Palm Desert (92260): 21.5 minutes
La Quinta (92253): 22.4 minutes
Rancho Mirage (92270): 23.5 minutes
DHS (92240): 30 minutes
Sorry Desert Hot Springs drivers. You are spending over 21 more minutes a day more than Cat City peeps in your car on your drive to work and home. That is over 88 more hours (5,304 minutes) a year!!!
Enter more zip codes from anywhere in The US below – btw, Winnett, Montana\’s commute is 9.6 minutes. Meanwhile Normantown, West Virginia residents have a commute that lasts a whopping 109 minutes!
