Coral Springs Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Coral Springs, 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 Springs: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Coral Springs spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 253 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.

Coral Springs holds about 0.6% of Florida's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Coral Springs would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,140 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 Springs	30.4 min	60.8 min	253 hrs/yr	$7,851	4,973
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 Springs Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.4 minutes to get to work in Coral Springs. That's 36% 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 14.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Coral Springs

Commute Mode Trends in Coral Springs, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Coral Springs 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	91.0%	4.9%	1.2%	1.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2010	90.7%	4.8%	1.3%	1.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	90.6%	5.1%	1.0%	1.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	90.6%	5.2%	0.8%	1.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2013	91.7%	4.9%	0.8%	1.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	91.3%	4.9%	0.9%	1.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2015	90.8%	5.0%	0.9%	1.1%	1.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2016	90.8%	4.9%	0.9%	1.1%	1.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2017	90.2%	5.4%	0.8%	1.2%	1.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2018	89.1%	6.0%	1.1%	1.5%	1.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2019	89.6%	5.7%	1.2%	1.6%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	88.6%	7.0%	1.4%	1.1%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2021	86.3%	9.4%	1.7%	0.9%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	83.3%	12.0%	2.1%	1.1%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	82.5%	13.2%	1.9%	0.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2024	80.2%	14.8%	2.2%	0.9%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%

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 91.0% in 2009 to 80.2% in 2024, down 10.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Coral Springs: its share of workers rose from 4.9% in 2009 to 14.8% in 2024, up 9.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Coral Springs

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Coral Springs?

The bars show when commuters in Coral Springs 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		3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Coral Springs is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are less common than in Florida: 10.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Florida: 50.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.7%) 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 Springs, 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 Springs 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 Springs 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 Springs	Florida	United States
2009	7:52 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:54 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:58 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:59 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	8:05 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:04 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:03 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:02 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:58 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:55 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:51 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:52 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:50 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:52 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Coral Springs were on the road by 7:52 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Florida, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Coral Springs now leave 14 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 Springs has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Coral Springs's commute time compare?

Metric	Coral Springs	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.4 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	14.8%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Coral Springs is 30.4 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Coral Springs, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Coral Springs, FL is the largest of the 6 cities compared here, 133,960 residents against a local median of 57,412. The measure that sets Coral Springs, FL apart most is work from home: 14.8%, 19% above the local median of 12.4%.

The cities themselves spread 21.0% on work from home, so Coral Springs, FL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Coral Springs, FL has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Coral Springs, FL	133,960	30.4 min #5/6	14.8% #2/6	7:52 AM #3/6
Parkland, FL	36,099	30.9 min	28.2%	8:20 AM
Margate, FL	58,812	30.1 min	10.3%	7:49 AM
Tamarac, FL	71,922	28.4 min	12.4%	7:52 AM
North Lauderdale, FL	43,820	28.0 min	7.2%	7:33 AM
Coconut Creek, FL	57,412	28.1 min	14.1%	7:59 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Coral Springs, Florida.

Is living in Coral Springs, Florida good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 253 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,851 at a typical national wage. That's 27% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Coral Springs, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Coral Springs, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.