Apollo Beach Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Apollo Beach: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Apollo Beach spend about 67 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 278 hours, about 11.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 39% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 9.4 minutes.

Apollo Beach holds about 0.2% of Florida's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Apollo Beach would save about 111 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,452 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)
Apollo Beach	33.4 min	66.8 min	278 hrs/yr	$8,630	3,692
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.

Apollo Beach Commute Map

On average, it takes 33.4 minutes to get to work in Apollo Beach. That's 49% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 27.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Apollo Beach

• Car: 69.2%
• Worked at Home: 27.5%
• Other: 1.9%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Apollo Beach, versus 0.2% in Florida.

Public transit is unusually rare in Apollo Beach: 20182.7 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 1.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Apollo Beach: 4.9 times less than the Florida average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Apollo Beach: 3.6 times less than the Florida average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Apollo Beach, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Apollo Beach 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
• Taxi
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	92.1%	3.9%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	1.6%	0.2%
2010	93.0%	3.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.3%
2011	93.3%	4.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%	0.3%
2012	93.3%	4.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	1.0%	0.3%
2013	93.5%	4.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	1.0%	0.4%
2014	92.2%	5.3%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.7%	0.4%
2015	90.5%	6.8%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%
2016	89.1%	8.0%	0.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%
2017	88.0%	9.4%	0.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	87.8%	9.9%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	88.2%	10.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	86.0%	12.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	80.7%	17.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	76.7%	21.4%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	73.7%	24.1%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	69.2%	27.5%	1.9%	1.2%	0.1%	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 peaked in 2013 at 93.5%. Overall it fell from 92.1% in 2009 to 69.2% in 2024, down 22.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Apollo Beach: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 27.5% in 2024, up 23.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2014 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Apollo Beach

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Apollo Beach?

The bars show when commuters in Apollo Beach 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 Apollo Beach3.9% Florida4.7%	3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Apollo Beach4.9% Florida3.5%	4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Apollo Beach4.5% Florida4.0%	4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Apollo Beach14.5% Florida9.1%	14.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Apollo Beach12.4% Florida8.9%	12.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Apollo Beach13.1% Florida15.1%	13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Apollo Beach7.1% Florida10.6%	7.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Apollo Beach15.2% Florida13.1%	15.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Apollo Beach3.4% Florida5.8%	3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Apollo Beach6.5% Florida8.0%	6.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Apollo Beach4.5% Florida3.5%	4.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Apollo Beach0.7% Florida1.5%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Apollo Beach4.2% Florida6.3%	4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Apollo Beach5.0% Florida5.9%	5.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Apollo Beach is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 13.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like Florida's: 47.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.9%) 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 Apollo Beach, 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 Apollo Beach 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 Apollo Beach 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.

• Apollo Beach
• Florida
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Apollo Beach	Florida	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:47 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Apollo Beach were on the road by 7:22 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Apollo Beach now leave 16 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Apollo Beach's commute time compare?

Metric	Apollo Beach	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.4 min	24.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	27.5%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Apollo Beach is 33.4 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau