Brandon Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Brandon, Florida: 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 Brandon: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brandon spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 213 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Brandon holds about 0.5% of Florida's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Brandon would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,640 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)
Brandon	25.5 min	51.1 min	213 hrs/yr	$6,600	5,453
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.

Brandon Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.5 minutes to get to work in Brandon. That's 14% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 18.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brandon

Public transit is unusually rare in Brandon: 6.5 times less than the Florida average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Brandon, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brandon 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	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	93.5%	3.5%	0.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%
2010	93.0%	4.4%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2011	92.7%	4.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%
2012	92.1%	4.8%	1.1%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2013	92.1%	5.2%	1.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2014	92.2%	5.2%	0.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2015	91.3%	5.8%	0.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
2016	90.7%	6.1%	0.7%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%
2017	90.8%	6.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%
2018	90.1%	6.9%	0.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%
2019	89.5%	7.9%	0.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
2020	89.0%	8.5%	0.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2021	85.5%	12.2%	0.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	83.3%	13.9%	0.7%	1.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2023	80.3%	16.4%	1.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	78.3%	18.1%	1.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.5% in 2009 to 78.3% in 2024, down 15.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Brandon: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 18.1% in 2024, up 14.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Brandon

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brandon?

The bars show when commuters in Brandon 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		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Brandon is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 13.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like Florida's: 48.0% 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 Brandon, 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 Brandon 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 Brandon 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	Brandon	Florida	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:46 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brandon were on the road by 7:39 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:35 AM). Florida followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes later. Commuters in Brandon now leave 1 minute 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 Brandon has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Brandon's commute time compare?

Metric	Brandon	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.5 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	18.1%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Brandon is 25.5 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Brandon, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Brandon, FL compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Brandon, FL	119,418	25.5 min #1/3	18.1% #3/3	7:39 AM #2/3
Bloomingdale, FL	23,822	30.4 min	22.1%	7:42 AM
Valrico, FL	37,088	30.9 min	23.4%	7:21 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Brandon, Florida.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Brandon, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 213 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,600 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Brandon, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Brandon, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Brandon, Florida?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 1.2% in Florida, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.