It’s the holidays! It’s a busy time of year for many, but it can be a particularly tough time of year for drivers. In part because you’ve got end of year financial goals, and also because, if you’re out driving, you may be missing your family and friends.

We’re starting to see drivers comment about “holiday blues” on the road. When you find yourself taking people to and from holiday parties, you might be thinking that you too would like some of that time with family and friends.

We wanted you to know: You’re not alone on the road! If you are driving over the next few weeks, don’t worry, there will be tens of thousands of other folks like you providing safe rides home for hundreds of thousands of people across the country. And we put together these maps to prove it to you.

Warning: This is a visual journey; don’t look for hard-hitting driver insights in this piece!

Visualizing on-demand drivers across the US

It’s a busy time of year for your fellow drivers – and we wanted to show that to you. We took our Heatmaps from our app and fancied them up. These 8 maps show the daily density of drivers over the past week – based on drivers using SherpaShare to track their mileage. The darker the red, the more driving that took place in that zip code.

Check out Lake Erie. From Detroit to Toledo, Cleveland to Columbus, there were thousands of your fellow drivers plying the roads, in above map. Last week in Cleveland, 1/3rd of SherpaShare’s driver trips were done on Saturday – one of the big holiday party days of the year. New England was also packed!

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Driving in Southern California? Well, you’re in one of the busiest spots in the country, but just in case you we’re having doubts, we included it here. Same with the Bay Area and Texas.

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Fares between cities? Yes, it happens! We’ve heard from lots of drivers who will drive in between cities within their state to try out a new market. Check out Lexington and Louisville, or Cincinnati and Dayton, above. Same thing in California and Texas, below. You may want to mix it up and do a driving vacation too. (Check to make sure it’s okay in your state first!)

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Where are you driving next? Wherever it is, know that you’re far from alone out there on the road! Be proud to be part of such a fast-growing entrepreneurial workforce that’s out there hustling this December.

Note: Maps created by Team SherpaShare via the SherpaShare Heatmaps. Share these Maps