Citrus County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Citrus County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Citrus County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Citrus County holds about 0.7% of Florida's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Citrus County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,339 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)
Citrus County	22.6 min	45.3 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,847	1,815
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.

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On average, it takes 22.6 minutes to get to work in Citrus County. That's 1% 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 13.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Citrus County

• Car: 82.8%
• Worked at Home: 13.6%
• Other: 1.5%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Bicycle: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Citrus County: 4.2 times less than the Florida average (0.3% vs 1.2%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Citrus County, versus 0.4% in Florida.

Commute Mode Trends in Citrus County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Citrus 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	91.2%	4.5%	1.7%	1.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	91.1%	4.8%	1.5%	1.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	91.4%	4.7%	1.2%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%
2012	91.4%	4.9%	1.0%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%
2013	91.7%	5.3%	0.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%
2014	91.4%	5.3%	0.9%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%
2015	90.5%	5.6%	1.5%	1.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2016	89.7%	6.1%	1.7%	1.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%
2017	89.8%	5.8%	2.0%	1.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%
2018	90.8%	5.6%	1.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	90.5%	5.8%	1.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%
2020	89.0%	7.7%	1.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2021	87.7%	9.3%	1.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	86.1%	11.0%	1.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	84.8%	12.1%	1.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	82.8%	13.6%	1.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.3%	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 2013 at 91.7%. Overall it fell from 91.2% in 2009 to 82.8% in 2024, down 8.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Citrus County: its share of workers rose from 4.5% in 2009 to 13.6% in 2024, up 9.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Citrus County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Citrus County?

The bars show when commuters in Citrus 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	12:00-4:59 AM Citrus County6.0% Florida4.7%	6.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Citrus County4.9% Florida3.5%	4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Citrus County5.3% Florida4.0%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Citrus County7.7% Florida9.1%	7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Citrus County10.8% Florida8.9%	10.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Citrus County14.3% Florida15.1%	14.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Citrus County11.5% Florida10.6%	11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Citrus County9.4% Florida13.1%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Citrus County5.2% Florida5.8%	5.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Citrus County7.1% Florida8.0%	7.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Citrus County2.6% Florida3.5%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Citrus County2.0% Florida1.5%	2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Citrus County5.7% Florida6.3%	5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Citrus County7.4% Florida5.9%	7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Citrus County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like Florida's: 46.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.8%) 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 Citrus 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 Citrus 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 Citrus 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.

• Citrus County
• Florida
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Citrus County	Florida	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Citrus County were on the road by 7:33 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Citrus County now leave 5 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Citrus County's commute time compare?

Metric	Citrus County	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.6 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	13.6%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Citrus County is 22.6 minutes, shorter than the 24.0 minutes 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