Alafaya Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Alafaya: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Alafaya spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 257 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.9 minutes.

Alafaya holds about 0.4% of Florida's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Alafaya would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,189 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)
Alafaya	30.9 min	61.7 min	257 hrs/yr	$7,973	6,702
Florida	24.0 min	47.9 min	200 hrs/yr	$6,189	3,068
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.

Alafaya Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.9 minutes to get to work in Alafaya. That's 38% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 21.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Alafaya

• Car: 76.5%
• Worked at Home: 21.7%
• Other: 0.8%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Alafaya: 6.4 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Walking is unusually rare in Alafaya: 3.5 times less than the Florida average (0.4% vs 1.4%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Alafaya: 5.4 times less than the Florida average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Alafaya: 6.1 times less than the Florida average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Alafaya: just 0.5%, 4.0 times below the Florida average of 1.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Alafaya, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Alafaya 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.0%	5.6%	1.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2010	92.7%	5.2%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2011	92.6%	5.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2012	91.9%	5.6%	1.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%
2013	91.5%	5.9%	1.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	90.5%	6.3%	1.4%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%
2015	90.3%	6.4%	1.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%
2016	89.2%	7.3%	1.5%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.3%
2017	89.1%	7.7%	1.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2018	89.2%	7.8%	1.0%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2019	90.9%	6.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	88.1%	10.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	85.9%	12.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	82.3%	15.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	79.1%	19.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	76.5%	21.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 92.7%. Overall it fell from 92.0% in 2009 to 76.5% in 2024, down 15.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Alafaya: its share of workers rose from 5.6% in 2009 to 21.7% in 2024, up 16.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Alafaya

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Alafaya?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Alafaya3.7% Florida4.7%	3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Alafaya1.8% Florida3.5%	1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Alafaya2.1% Florida4.0%	2.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Alafaya9.1% Florida9.1%	9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Alafaya8.4% Florida8.9%	8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Alafaya15.4% Florida15.1%	15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Alafaya13.3% Florida10.6%	13.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Alafaya13.2% Florida13.1%	13.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Alafaya7.0% Florida5.8%	7.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Alafaya9.1% Florida8.0%	9.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Alafaya3.8% Florida3.5%	3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Alafaya1.7% Florida1.5%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Alafaya7.9% Florida6.3%	7.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Alafaya3.6% Florida5.9%	3.6%

Alafaya Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Alafaya is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are less common than in Florida: 7.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Florida: 50.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.0%) 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 Alafaya, 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 Alafaya 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 Alafaya next to Florida 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.

• Alafaya
• Florida
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Alafaya	Florida	United States
2009	7:48 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:51 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:52 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:54 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:56 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:55 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:52 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:52 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:46 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:46 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:50 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:51 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:52 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:52 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Alafaya were on the road by 7:52 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:48 AM). Florida followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes later. Commuters in Alafaya now leave 14 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Alafaya has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Alafaya's commute time compare?

Metric	Alafaya	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.9 min	24.0 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	21.7%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Alafaya is 30.9 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau