Coral Gables Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Coral Gables, 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 Coral Gables: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Coral Gables 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 5% less time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Coral Gables 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 Coral Gables would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,344 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)
Coral Gables	22.7 min	45.4 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,860	4,915
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.

Coral Gables Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.7 minutes to get to work in Coral Gables. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 22.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Coral Gables

Walking is unusually common in Coral Gables: 4.4 times more than the Florida average (6.1% vs 1.4%).

Coral Gables stands out for active commuting: 7.0% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.7 times the Florida average of 1.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Coral Gables, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Coral Gables 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	82.4%	6.2%	5.2%	1.3%	4.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	81.2%	5.4%	6.6%	1.6%	4.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	81.5%	5.9%	6.3%	1.5%	3.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	81.6%	6.3%	6.2%	1.3%	3.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	81.1%	8.0%	4.9%	1.5%	3.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	81.5%	7.5%	4.9%	1.6%	3.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	82.2%	7.5%	4.6%	1.1%	3.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	81.4%	7.6%	4.8%	1.0%	4.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	81.3%	7.8%	4.1%	1.1%	4.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	83.2%	6.5%	4.5%	0.7%	4.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%
2019	81.1%	8.3%	4.4%	0.9%	3.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.4%
2020	77.7%	12.0%	4.5%	1.1%	2.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.4%
2021	72.9%	17.8%	4.5%	0.9%	2.1%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2022	70.2%	18.9%	6.0%	1.7%	1.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2023	65.9%	22.8%	5.9%	1.8%	1.4%	1.4%	0.5%	0.2%
2024	66.5%	22.9%	6.1%	1.8%	1.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2018 at 83.2% and lowest in 2023 at 65.9%. Overall it fell from 82.4% in 2009 to 66.5% in 2024, down 15.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Coral Gables: its share of workers rose from 6.2% in 2009 to 22.9% in 2024, up 16.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 4.4% to 1.4% of workers (down 3.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Coral Gables

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Coral Gables?

The bars show when commuters in Coral Gables 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		1.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		0.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		0.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		4.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		18.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		17.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		17.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Coral Gables is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across Florida. Early starts are less common than in Florida: 3.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Florida: 40.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (34.4%) 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 Coral Gables, 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 Coral Gables 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 Coral Gables 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	Coral Gables	Florida	United States
2009	8:25 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:27 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:27 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:25 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:25 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:26 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:24 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:25 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:25 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:27 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:31 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:31 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:32 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:32 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Coral Gables were on the road by 8:32 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (8:25 AM). The shift is sharper than across Florida, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Coral Gables now leave 54 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 Coral Gables has moved 8 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Coral Gables in the whole series.

How does Coral Gables's commute time compare?

Metric	Coral Gables	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.7 min	24.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	09:00 AM – 09:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	22.9%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	6.1%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Coral Gables is 22.7 minutes, shorter than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

1.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.2% in Florida. 6.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Coral Gables, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Coral Gables, FL compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Coral Gables, FL	49,643	22.7 min #1/2	22.9% #1/2	8:32 AM #2/2
Coral Terrace, FL	24,987	22.8 min	16.9%	7:42 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Coral Gables, Florida.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Coral Gables, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 189 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,860 at a typical national wage. That's 5% less than the typical Florida commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Coral Gables, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Coral Gables, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is Coral Gables, Florida a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 22.9% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Coral Gables would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,344 at the same national wage assumption used above.