Cooper City Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cooper City: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cooper City spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 215 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Cooper City 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 Cooper City would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,672 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)
Cooper City	25.9 min	51.7 min	215 hrs/yr	$6,680	4,593
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.

Cooper City Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.9 minutes to get to work in Cooper City. That's 15% 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 17.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cooper City

• Car: 79.5%
• Worked at Home: 17.6%
• Other: 1.7%
• Taxi: 0.4%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Cooper City: 3.9 times less than the Florida average (0.4% vs 1.4%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Cooper City: 4.1 times less than the Florida average (0.3% vs 1.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Cooper City: 28184.6 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Cooper City: just 0.4%, 5.2 times below the Florida average of 1.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Cooper City, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cooper City 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
• Taxi
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Taxi	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.4%	3.7%	0.4%	0.0%	1.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%
2010	93.2%	4.4%	0.3%	0.0%	1.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	92.8%	5.1%	0.1%	0.0%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	92.3%	5.2%	0.2%	0.0%	1.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	92.0%	5.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	91.3%	6.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2015	91.3%	6.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%
2016	91.4%	6.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	1.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	92.4%	5.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	92.1%	5.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%
2019	92.5%	5.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%
2020	91.1%	6.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	87.9%	10.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	85.5%	12.3%	1.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	83.3%	13.9%	1.7%	0.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	79.5%	17.6%	1.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 79.5% in 2024, down 13.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cooper City: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 17.6% in 2024, up 13.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Cooper City

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cooper City?

The bars show when commuters in Cooper City 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 Cooper City1.9% Florida4.7%	1.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cooper City2.5% Florida3.5%	2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cooper City3.1% Florida4.0%	3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cooper City8.1% Florida9.1%	8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cooper City9.7% Florida8.9%	9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cooper City14.4% Florida15.1%	14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cooper City11.2% Florida10.6%	11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cooper City13.8% Florida13.1%	13.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cooper City8.1% Florida5.8%	8.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cooper City9.4% Florida8.0%	9.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cooper City3.7% Florida3.5%	3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cooper City1.8% Florida1.5%	1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cooper City6.8% Florida6.3%	6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cooper City5.4% Florida5.9%	5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cooper City is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are less common than in Florida: 7.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like Florida's: 49.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.1%) 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 Cooper City, 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 Cooper City 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 Cooper City 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.

• Cooper City
• Florida
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Cooper City	Florida	United States
2009	7:54 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:56 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:59 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:02 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:02 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:04 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:02 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:01 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:59 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:56 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:51 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:56 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:54 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:55 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:59 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:57 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cooper City were on the road by 7:57 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:54 AM). Florida followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes later. Commuters in Cooper City now leave 19 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 Cooper City has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Cooper City's commute time compare?

Metric	Cooper City	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.9 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	17.6%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cooper City is 25.9 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau