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Commuting in Florence, Arizona: 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 Florence: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Florence spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 254 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 36% more time on the road than the Arizona average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 8.0 minutes.

Florence holds about 0.3% of Arizona's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Florence would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,150 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)
Florence 30.5 min 61.0 min 254 hrs/yr $7,875 1,544
Arizona 22.4 min 44.9 min 187 hrs/yr $5,798 1,948
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.

Florence Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.5 minutes to get to work in Florence. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Florence

  • Car: 71.9%
  • Worked at Home: 24.4%
  • Walked: 2.0%
  • Other: 1.1%
  • Motorcycle: 0.3%
  • Bicycle: 0.3%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Florence: 4648532355764.8 times less than the Arizona average (0.0% vs 1.0%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Florence, versus 0.2% in Arizona.

Commute Mode Trends in Florence, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Florence 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 Walked Other Motorcycle Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi
2009 89.5% 4.2% 4.7% 1.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2010 90.4% 5.9% 2.6% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 90.5% 4.8% 2.6% 2.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 88.4% 5.6% 3.4% 2.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 90.6% 5.0% 1.9% 2.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 91.5% 5.0% 2.3% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 89.6% 4.1% 4.0% 1.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.8% 0.0%
2016 89.4% 4.5% 4.9% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.9% 0.0%
2017 90.3% 5.5% 2.8% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.7% 0.0%
2018 88.0% 6.5% 2.5% 1.4% 0.7% 0.2% 0.7% 0.0%
2019 88.4% 6.7% 2.3% 1.1% 0.7% 0.1% 0.6% 0.0%
2020 88.8% 7.2% 0.7% 2.0% 0.6% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 84.5% 11.4% 1.1% 2.1% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 82.8% 13.5% 1.3% 1.7% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 77.1% 19.4% 1.8% 0.9% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 71.9% 24.4% 2.0% 1.1% 0.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 91.5%. Overall it fell from 89.5% in 2009 to 71.9% in 2024, down 17.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Florence: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 24.4% in 2024, up 20.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.7% to 2.0% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Florence

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Florence?

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

12:00-4:59 AM
14.1%
5:00-5:29 AM
7.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
8.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
12.2%
6:30-6:59 AM
6.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
10.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
10.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
4.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
0.8%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
11.4%

Florence Arizona Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Florence is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.5% across Arizona. Early starts are more common than in Arizona: 30.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 20.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arizona: 32.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 42.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.6%) 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 Florence, 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 Florence 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 Florence next to Arizona 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 Florence Arizona United States
2009 7:08 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:07 AM 7:25 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:11 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:03 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:05 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2014 6:51 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2015 6:51 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2016 6:51 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2017 6:58 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2018 6:45 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2019 6:53 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2020 6:51 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2021 6:45 AM 7:25 AM 7:37 AM
2022 6:54 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:07 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:01 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Florence were on the road by 7:01 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:08 AM). That goes against the trend across Arizona, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Florence now leave 37 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 Florence has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Florence's commute time compare?

Metric Florence Arizona US Average
Avg. Commute Time 30.5 min 22.4 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 24.4% 18.4% 15.0%
Walked 2.0% 1.7% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.0% 3.2%

The average commute time in Florence is 30.5 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Arizona.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Arizona. 2.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.7% in Arizona.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Florence, AZ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Florence, AZ compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Florence, AZ 22,129 30.5 min #1/2 24.4% #1/2 7:01 AM #1/2
San Tan Valley, AZ 102,207 36.8 min 19.8% 7:04 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Florence, Arizona.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Florence, Arizona?

Commuters here spend an estimated 254 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,875 at a typical national wage. That's 36% more than the typical Arizona commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Florence, Arizona?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Florence, Arizona. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Florence, Arizona?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.0% in Arizona, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How much time do residents in Florence, Arizona save by working from home?

About 24.4% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Florence would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,150 at the same national wage assumption used above.