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Commuting in East Lake, 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 East Lake: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in East Lake spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 215 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

East Lake 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 East Lake would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,661 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)
East Lake 25.7 min 51.5 min 215 hrs/yr $6,652 5,437
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.

East Lake Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.7 minutes to get to work in East Lake. That's 15% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 25.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in East Lake

  • Car: 71.9%
  • Worked at Home: 25.2%
  • Taxi: 1.2% unusually high
  • Other: 1.0%
  • Walked: 0.4% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in East Lake: 3.5 times less than the Florida average (0.4% vs 1.4%).

Public transit is unusually rare in East Lake: 27.5 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 1.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in East Lake: 3.5 times more than the Florida average (1.2% vs 0.4%).

Biking is essentially absent in East Lake, versus 0.5% in Florida.

Few people walk or bike to work in East Lake: just 0.4%, 4.8 times below the Florida average of 1.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in East Lake, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in East Lake 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 Taxi Other Walked Motorcycle Public Transportation Bicycle
2009 90.1% 8.3% 0.0% 0.6% 0.6% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
2010 88.5% 10.1% 0.0% 0.8% 0.4% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2011 89.2% 9.3% 0.0% 0.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2012 88.9% 9.5% 0.0% 0.9% 0.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
2013 88.1% 9.9% 0.0% 0.9% 0.6% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2%
2014 87.4% 9.3% 0.0% 1.8% 0.9% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2%
2015 88.3% 8.2% 0.0% 1.9% 1.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2%
2016 86.8% 9.8% 0.0% 1.9% 1.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2%
2017 85.7% 10.9% 0.0% 2.2% 0.8% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2%
2018 86.7% 10.4% 0.0% 2.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2019 84.6% 13.4% 0.0% 1.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2020 83.5% 14.5% 0.7% 0.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2021 80.6% 16.7% 1.0% 1.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 79.2% 18.1% 1.0% 1.1% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 75.6% 21.6% 1.3% 0.8% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2024 71.9% 25.2% 1.2% 1.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.1% in 2009 to 71.9% in 2024, down 18.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in East Lake: its share of workers rose from 8.3% in 2009 to 25.2% in 2024, up 16.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in East Lake

What Time Do People Leave for Work in East Lake?

The bars show when commuters in East Lake 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
2.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.6%
5:30-5:59 AM
2.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
18.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
5.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
8.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in East Lake is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 18.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across Florida. Early starts are less common than in Florida: 6.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Florida: 55.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.0%) 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 East Lake, 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 East Lake 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 East Lake 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 East Lake Florida United States
2009 7:55 AM 7:41 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:57 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:59 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:54 AM 7:46 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:51 AM 7:47 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:51 AM 7:47 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:46 AM 7:47 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:43 AM 7:46 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:48 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:48 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:52 AM 7:43 AM 7:37 AM
2020 8:02 AM 7:43 AM 7:37 AM
2021 8:01 AM 7:43 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:54 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:58 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:55 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in East Lake were on the road by 7:55 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Florida, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in East Lake now leave 17 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 East Lake has moved 3 minutes later.

How does East Lake's commute time compare?

Metric East Lake Florida US Average
Avg. Commute Time 25.7 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 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 25.2% 15.7% 15.0%
Walked 0.4% 1.4% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.2% 3.2%

The average commute time in East Lake is 25.7 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.0% 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

East Lake, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

East Lake, FL is the 2nd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 31,654 residents against a local median of 26,445. East Lake, FL sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these cities turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 13% above the local median at 25.2% against 22.4%. East Lake, FL has the 2nd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
East Lake, FL 31,654 25.7 min #2/4 25.2% #2/4 7:55 AM #4/4
Palm Harbor, FL 57,735 23.4 min 22.4% 7:55 AM
Holiday, FL 22,615 28.9 min 14.0% 7:36 AM
Keystone, FL 26,445 30.7 min 32.1% 7:53 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in East Lake, Florida.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 215 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,652 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in East Lake, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in East Lake, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in East Lake, Florida?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.2% in Florida, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How much money can remote workers save in East Lake, Florida?

About 25.2% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in East Lake would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,661 at the same national wage assumption used above.