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Commute Time Burden in Baker County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Baker County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 251 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.2 minutes.

Baker County holds about 0.1% of Florida's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Baker County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,117 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)
Baker County 30.2 min 60.3 min 251 hrs/yr $7,792 803
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.

Commute Time Map: Florida Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Florida
  1. Taylor County (13.8 min)
  2. Monroe County (16.1 min)
  3. Franklin County (16.6 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Florida
  1. Washington County (32.8 min)
  2. Osceola County (32.3 min)
  3. Liberty County (32.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Baker County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 30.2 minutes to get to work in Baker County. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 80% of counties in Florida

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Baker County

  • Car: 87.0%
  • Worked at Home: 8.6%
  • Walked: 2.9%
  • Other: 1.5%
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Baker County, versus 0.2% in Florida.

Public transit is essentially absent in Baker County, versus 1.2% in Florida.

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Baker County: 2646992561.2 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Biking is essentially absent in Baker County, versus 0.5% in Florida.

Commute Mode Trends in Baker County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Baker 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.

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 Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 95.0% 2.1% 1.2% 0.9% 0.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2010 95.6% 1.6% 1.5% 0.5% 0.6% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2011 96.3% 1.1% 1.2% 0.3% 0.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2012 96.4% 1.9% 1.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 96.0% 2.7% 0.8% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2014 95.9% 3.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2015 95.6% 3.0% 0.7% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2016 95.1% 3.3% 0.7% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2017 94.0% 3.5% 0.1% 2.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2018 93.7% 3.8% 0.1% 2.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2019 92.5% 4.3% 0.2% 2.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2020 90.3% 4.2% 2.2% 3.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2021 88.9% 6.3% 2.4% 2.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 87.5% 7.1% 3.5% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 86.9% 8.4% 3.4% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 87.0% 8.6% 2.9% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 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 2012 at 96.4% and lowest in 2023 at 86.9%. Overall it fell from 95.0% in 2009 to 87.0% in 2024, down 8.0 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Baker County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 8.6% in 2024, up 6.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Baker County

  • Rush-Hour DodgersThe 2nd-lowest share of rush-hour departures among Florida's 67 counties: only 37.3% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Baker County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM
7.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
15.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
15.4%
7:00-7:29 AM
5.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
8.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM
10.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Baker County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 20.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Florida: 37.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.5%) 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 Baker 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 Baker 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 Baker County 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Baker County Florida United States
2009 7:07 AM 7:41 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:07 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:05 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:05 AM 7:46 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:05 AM 7:47 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:01 AM 7:47 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:01 AM 7:47 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:02 AM 7:46 AM 7:38 AM
2017 6:59 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:05 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:03 AM 7:43 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:03 AM 7:43 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:02 AM 7:43 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:02 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2023 6:57 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2024 6:57 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Baker County were on the road by 6:57 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:07 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Baker County now leave 40 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 Baker County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Baker County's commute time compare?

Metric Baker County Florida US Average
Avg. Commute Time 30.2 min 24.0 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 8.6% 15.7% 15.0%
Walked 2.9% 1.4% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.2% 3.2%

The average commute time in Baker County is 30.2 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Baker County, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Baker County, FL is typical in size for this group, 28,430 residents against a local median of 27,885, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest counties, which makes Baker County, FL an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 8% above the local median at 30.2 min against 27.9 min. Baker County, FL has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Baker County, FL 28,430 30.2 min #4/6 8.6% #3/6 6:57 AM #1/6
Union County, FL 15,701 32.0 min 7.7% 7:06 AM
Columbia County, FL 71,789 20.5 min 8.3% 7:28 AM
Bradford County, FL 27,885 27.9 min 10.6% 7:09 AM
Charlton County, GA 12,818 22.0 min 2.2% 7:04 AM
Clay County, FL 225,443 31.2 min 15.9% 7:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Baker County, Florida.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Baker County, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 251 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,792 at a typical national wage. That's 26% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Baker County, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Baker County, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Baker County, Florida?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.2% in Florida, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Florida?

Among counties in Florida, the shortest average commutes are in Taylor County (13.8 min), Monroe County (16.1 min), Franklin County (16.6 min). The longest are in Washington County (32.8 min), Osceola County (32.3 min), Liberty County (32.1 min).