Carrollwood Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Carrollwood, 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 Carrollwood: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Carrollwood spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 199 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.1 minutes.

Carrollwood 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 Carrollwood would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,462 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)
Carrollwood	23.8 min	47.6 min	199 hrs/yr	$6,154	6,413
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.

Carrollwood Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.8 minutes to get to work in Carrollwood. That's 6% 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 22.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Carrollwood

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Carrollwood: 11169.5 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Carrollwood: 4.5 times less than the Florida average (0.3% vs 1.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Carrollwood, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Carrollwood 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.8%	5.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	90.1%	6.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	90.1%	6.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	90.5%	6.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	90.7%	6.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	90.2%	6.7%	0.4%	0.6%	0.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	89.8%	6.3%	0.6%	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	88.6%	7.6%	0.6%	1.0%	0.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	89.0%	7.8%	0.8%	0.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	88.4%	8.7%	0.5%	0.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	89.6%	8.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	86.3%	12.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	84.1%	13.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	79.9%	17.1%	0.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	76.9%	19.6%	1.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	73.7%	22.6%	1.1%	1.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.8% in 2009 to 73.7% in 2024, down 17.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Carrollwood: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 22.6% in 2024, up 16.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Carrollwood

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Carrollwood?

The bars show when commuters in Carrollwood 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		2.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Carrollwood is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are less common than in Florida: 8.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Florida: 54.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.8%) 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 Carrollwood, 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 Carrollwood 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 Carrollwood 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	Carrollwood	Florida	United States
2009	7:51 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:51 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:54 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:58 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:57 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:01 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:03 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:58 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:53 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:47 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:47 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Carrollwood were on the road by 7:44 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:51 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Carrollwood now leave 6 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 Carrollwood has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Carrollwood's commute time compare?

Metric	Carrollwood	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.8 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	22.6%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Carrollwood is about the same as in Florida.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Carrollwood, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Carrollwood, FL is the 2nd largest of the 6 cities compared here, 37,566 residents against a local median of 31,109. The measure that sets Carrollwood, FL apart most is work from home: 22.6%, 21% above the local median of 18.6%.

The cities themselves spread 17.9% on work from home, so Carrollwood, FL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Carrollwood, FL has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Carrollwood, FL	37,566	23.8 min #2/6	22.6% #2/6	7:44 AM #5/6
Egypt Lake-Leto, FL	35,150	22.9 min	11.4%	7:26 AM
Lake Magdalene, FL	31,109	27.2 min	18.6%	7:48 AM
Northdale, FL	24,991	30.9 min	29.3%	7:35 AM
Citrus Park, FL	27,910	27.6 min	22.6%	7:34 AM
Town 'n' Country, FL	84,768	25.5 min	15.6%	7:42 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Carrollwood, Florida.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 199 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,154 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical Florida commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Carrollwood, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Carrollwood, 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.

Do people use public transit in Carrollwood, Florida?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 1.2% in Florida, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How much time do residents in Carrollwood, Florida save by working from home?

About 22.6% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Carrollwood would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,462 at the same national wage assumption used above.