Fort Pierce Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Fort Pierce, 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 Fort Pierce: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fort Pierce spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 181 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% less time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Fort Pierce 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 Fort Pierce would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,246 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)
Fort Pierce	21.7 min	43.5 min	181 hrs/yr	$5,615	2,531
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.

Fort Pierce Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.7 minutes to get to work in Fort Pierce. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fort Pierce

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Fort Pierce: 7.9 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Fort Pierce, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fort Pierce 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	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	95.0%	1.4%	0.8%	0.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.6%
2010	95.7%	1.4%	1.2%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2011	94.9%	1.1%	1.3%	0.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.7%	0.1%
2012	95.0%	1.2%	1.4%	0.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	93.9%	1.3%	1.8%	1.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.2%
2014	92.2%	2.1%	1.7%	1.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.9%	0.3%
2015	90.8%	2.1%	2.2%	1.8%	1.0%	0.1%	1.7%	0.2%
2016	90.2%	2.6%	2.4%	2.2%	1.2%	0.0%	1.3%	0.2%
2017	90.5%	2.4%	2.4%	2.0%	1.2%	0.0%	1.4%	0.2%
2018	89.9%	2.9%	2.3%	2.0%	0.9%	0.1%	1.7%	0.1%
2019	90.6%	2.5%	2.8%	1.3%	1.4%	0.1%	1.4%	0.1%
2020	89.7%	3.1%	3.3%	1.3%	1.5%	0.1%	0.9%	0.2%
2021	90.4%	3.4%	2.7%	0.8%	1.4%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%
2022	88.4%	5.6%	2.6%	1.1%	0.9%	0.3%	1.1%	0.1%
2023	86.4%	7.8%	2.4%	1.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%
2024	85.8%	8.6%	2.1%	1.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 95.7%. Overall it fell from 95.0% in 2009 to 85.8% in 2024, down 9.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fort Pierce: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 8.6% in 2024, up 7.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.6% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Biking peaked at 1.7% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Fort Pierce

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fort Pierce?

The bars show when commuters in Fort Pierce 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		6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.8%

Fort Pierce Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Fort Pierce is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 16.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Florida: 42.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.4%) 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 Fort Pierce, 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 Fort Pierce 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 Fort Pierce 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	Fort Pierce	Florida	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 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	7:29 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fort Pierce were on the road by 7:28 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Fort Pierce now leave 10 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 Fort Pierce has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Fort Pierce's commute time compare?

Metric	Fort Pierce	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.7 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.6%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fort Pierce is 21.7 minutes, shorter than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 2.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Fort Pierce, Florida.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Fort Pierce, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 181 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,615 at a typical national wage. That's 9% less than the typical Florida commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Fort Pierce, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Fort Pierce, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.