East Lake-Orient Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in East Lake-Orient Park, 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-Orient Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in East Lake-Orient Park spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.

East Lake-Orient Park holds about 0.1% of Florida's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in East Lake-Orient Park would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,380 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-Orient Park	23.0 min	46.1 min	192 hrs/yr	$5,950	4,245
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-Orient Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in East Lake-Orient Park. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 21.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in East Lake-Orient Park

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in East Lake-Orient Park: 5.6 times more than the Florida average (1.0% vs 0.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in East Lake-Orient Park: 3.2 times more than the Florida average (1.1% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually common in East Lake-Orient Park: 3.4 times more than the Florida average (1.6% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in East Lake-Orient Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in East Lake-Orient Park 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle	Walked	Other
2009	91.0%	3.6%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	1.7%	0.9%
2010	90.9%	3.5%	2.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	1.9%	0.7%
2011	91.4%	3.6%	2.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	1.5%	0.4%
2012	90.7%	2.9%	3.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	2.3%	0.6%
2013	90.4%	2.5%	2.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%	2.7%	1.2%
2014	89.9%	2.7%	2.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	2.4%	0.9%
2015	88.7%	3.0%	3.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	2.9%	0.8%
2016	88.2%	3.9%	3.8%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%	1.8%	1.0%
2017	87.3%	5.0%	3.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%	1.2%	0.8%
2018	87.9%	4.7%	3.6%	1.4%	0.3%	0.4%	1.1%	0.6%
2019	88.4%	4.4%	3.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	1.2%	1.0%
2020	86.7%	6.8%	2.3%	1.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.7%	1.2%
2021	82.3%	9.0%	2.8%	1.4%	1.2%	0.3%	1.1%	1.9%
2022	80.9%	12.7%	2.0%	1.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.9%	1.2%
2023	74.9%	17.7%	2.5%	1.3%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	1.2%
2024	71.8%	21.1%	1.7%	1.6%	1.1%	1.0%	0.9%	0.7%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 91.4%. Overall it fell from 91.0% in 2009 to 71.8% in 2024, down 19.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in East Lake-Orient Park: its share of workers rose from 3.6% in 2009 to 21.1% in 2024, up 17.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.9% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Biking overtook walking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 3.9% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 1.7%.

Commute Start Times in East Lake-Orient Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in East Lake-Orient Park?

The bars show when commuters in East Lake-Orient Park 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		2.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		6.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		11.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in East Lake-Orient Park is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are about as common as in Florida: 11.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Florida: 42.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (32.3%) 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-Orient Park, 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-Orient Park 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-Orient Park 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-Orient Park	Florida	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:01 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:54 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in East Lake-Orient Park were on the road by 7:54 AM, 21 minutes later than in 2009 (7:33 AM). The shift is sharper than across Florida, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in East Lake-Orient Park now leave 16 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-Orient Park has moved 24 minutes later.

How does East Lake-Orient Park's commute time compare?

Metric	East Lake-Orient Park	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.0 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	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	21.1%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in East Lake-Orient Park is 23.0 minutes, shorter than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

1.7% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

East Lake-Orient Park, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

East Lake-Orient Park, FL is typical in size for this group, 30,711 residents against a local median of 28,116, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets East Lake-Orient Park, FL apart most is work from home: 21.1%, 17% above the local median of 18.1%.

The cities themselves spread 6.2% on work from home, so East Lake-Orient Park, FL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. East Lake-Orient Park, 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-Orient Park, FL	30,711	23.0 min #1/4	21.1% #2/4	7:54 AM #4/4
Temple Terrace, FL	28,116	23.7 min	23.1%	7:44 AM
Palm River-Clair Mel, FL	26,532	26.8 min	16.9%	7:21 AM
Brandon, FL	119,418	25.5 min	18.1%	7:39 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in East Lake-Orient Park, Florida.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 192 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,950 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Florida commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in East Lake-Orient Park, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in East Lake-Orient Park, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.

How much time do residents in East Lake-Orient Park, Florida save by working from home?

About 21.1% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in East Lake-Orient Park would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,380 at the same national wage assumption used above.