Escambia County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Escambia County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Escambia County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 154 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

Escambia County holds about 0.7% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Escambia County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,912 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)
Escambia County	18.5 min	37.0 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,780	581
Alabama	22.1 min	44.3 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,717	1,193
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.

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On average, it takes 18.5 minutes to get to work in Escambia County. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest counties in Alabama

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 2.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Escambia County

• Car: 95.6%
• Worked at Home: 2.9% unusually low
• Walked: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.5% unusually high
• Other: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Escambia County: 4.5 times more than the Alabama average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Escambia County: 4.4 times less than the Alabama average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Escambia County, versus 0.1% in Alabama.

Working from home is unusually rare in Escambia County: 3.1 times less than the Alabama average (2.9% vs 8.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Escambia County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Escambia 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Motorcycle	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	95.9%	1.2%	0.1%	0.9%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.4%	3.8%	0.0%	1.1%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.9%	3.8%	0.1%	1.1%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.8%	3.9%	0.1%	1.6%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.2%	3.8%	0.2%	1.5%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.8%	3.6%	0.2%	1.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.8%	1.1%	0.1%	1.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	97.2%	0.9%	0.1%	1.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	98.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	98.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	97.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	98.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	97.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	97.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	96.9%	1.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	95.6%	2.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2018 at 98.5% and lowest in 2012 at 92.8%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 95.9% in 2009 and 95.6% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Escambia County: its share of workers rose from 1.2% in 2009 to 2.9% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home peaked at 3.9% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 2.9%.

Commute Start Times in Escambia County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Escambia County?

The bars show when commuters in Escambia 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 Alabama for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Escambia County9.4% Alabama6.8%	9.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Escambia County3.8% Alabama5.1%	3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Escambia County5.9% Alabama5.9%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Escambia County12.2% Alabama9.9%	12.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Escambia County12.8% Alabama11.3%	12.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Escambia County17.9% Alabama16.8%	17.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Escambia County13.2% Alabama11.8%	13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Escambia County7.0% Alabama8.6%	7.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Escambia County1.2% Alabama3.5%	1.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Escambia County6.9% Alabama4.6%	6.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Escambia County1.0% Alabama2.2%	1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Escambia County0.3% Alabama1.0%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Escambia County3.4% Alabama6.3%	3.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Escambia County4.9% Alabama6.2%	4.9%

Escambia County Alabama Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Escambia County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Alabama. Early starts are more common than in Alabama: 19.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Alabama: 50.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.7%) 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 Escambia 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 Escambia 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 Escambia County next to Alabama 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Escambia County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Escambia County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:09 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Escambia County now leave 28 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 Escambia County has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Escambia County's commute time compare?

Metric	Escambia County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.5 min	22.1 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.9%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Escambia County is 18.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Alabama. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau