Fish Hawk Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Fish Hawk: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fish Hawk spend about 76 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 315 hours, about 13.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 58% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 13.9 minutes.

Fish Hawk 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 Fish Hawk would save about 126 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,909 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)
Fish Hawk	37.8 min	75.7 min	315 hrs/yr	$9,772	3,301
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.

Fish Hawk Commute Map

On average, it takes 37.8 minutes to get to work in Fish Hawk. That's 69% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 25.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fish Hawk

• Car: 72.3%
• Worked at Home: 25.4%
• Other: 1.5%
• Walked: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Fish Hawk: 4.1 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Fish Hawk: 7.5 times less than the Florida average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Fish Hawk: 45707.0 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Fish Hawk: 4.5 times less than the Florida average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Fish Hawk: just 0.6%, 3.1 times below the Florida average of 1.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Fish Hawk, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fish Hawk 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
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	88.8%	8.4%	0.6%	1.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	87.5%	9.6%	0.5%	1.2%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	87.4%	7.8%	0.3%	2.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%
2012	86.9%	8.4%	0.3%	2.3%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%
2013	87.7%	7.4%	0.5%	1.7%	1.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	86.9%	8.4%	0.5%	1.0%	2.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	86.6%	8.1%	1.2%	1.0%	2.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	86.8%	9.5%	1.1%	0.7%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	85.3%	9.9%	1.1%	1.4%	2.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	86.0%	10.9%	1.0%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	86.6%	9.7%	1.3%	1.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.2%	11.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	81.2%	16.9%	0.5%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	77.6%	20.3%	1.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	73.0%	25.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	72.3%	25.4%	1.5%	0.5%	0.2%	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 88.8% in 2009 to 72.3% in 2024, down 16.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fish Hawk: its share of workers rose from 8.4% in 2009 to 25.4% in 2024, up 17.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 15.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 2.3% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 0.5%.

Commute Start Times in Fish Hawk

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fish Hawk?

The bars show when commuters in Fish Hawk 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 Fish Hawk2.0% Florida4.7%	2.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Fish Hawk3.4% Florida3.5%	3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Fish Hawk7.3% Florida4.0%	7.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Fish Hawk10.8% Florida9.1%	10.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Fish Hawk13.6% Florida8.9%	13.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Fish Hawk18.9% Florida15.1%	18.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Fish Hawk6.7% Florida10.6%	6.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Fish Hawk10.8% Florida13.1%	10.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Fish Hawk6.2% Florida5.8%	6.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Fish Hawk4.5% Florida8.0%	4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Fish Hawk3.4% Florida3.5%	3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Fish Hawk1.8% Florida1.5%	1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Fish Hawk7.9% Florida6.3%	7.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Fish Hawk2.9% Florida5.9%	2.9%

Fish Hawk Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Fish Hawk is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are about as common as in Florida: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Florida: 49.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.5%) 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 Fish Hawk, 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 Fish Hawk 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 Fish Hawk 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.

• Fish Hawk
• Florida
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Fish Hawk	Florida	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fish Hawk were on the road by 7:21 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Florida, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Fish Hawk now leave 17 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Fish Hawk has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Fish Hawk's commute time compare?

Metric	Fish Hawk	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	37.8 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	25.4%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fish Hawk is 37.8 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau