Gadsden County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Gadsden County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gadsden County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 259 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 7.1 minutes.

Gadsden County holds about 0.2% of Florida's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Gadsden County would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,209 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)
Gadsden County	31.1 min	62.1 min	259 hrs/yr	$8,022	1,482
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.

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On average, it takes 31.1 minutes to get to work in Gadsden County. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 88% of counties in Florida

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 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gadsden County

• Car: 89.1%
• Worked at Home: 9.0%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Other: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Gadsden County, versus 0.2% in Florida.

Public transit is unusually rare in Gadsden County: 3.5 times less than the Florida average (0.3% vs 1.2%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Gadsden County, versus 0.4% in Florida.

Biking is essentially absent in Gadsden County, versus 0.5% in Florida.

Commute Mode Trends in Gadsden County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gadsden County 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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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.9%	1.9%	1.3%	0.1%	4.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	91.9%	2.2%	1.5%	0.1%	4.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	93.5%	2.0%	1.3%	0.7%	2.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	94.0%	1.3%	1.7%	0.7%	1.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	94.3%	1.3%	1.4%	0.6%	2.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	94.1%	1.6%	1.6%	0.5%	1.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	94.3%	1.6%	0.9%	0.5%	2.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.9%	1.6%	1.1%	0.2%	2.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	2.3%	0.9%	0.1%	2.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	93.2%	2.9%	1.1%	0.3%	2.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	94.0%	2.5%	1.2%	0.3%	1.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	92.1%	5.1%	1.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	91.1%	6.7%	1.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.0%	7.8%	1.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.6%	8.2%	1.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.1%	9.0%	1.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 94.9%. Overall it fell from 91.9% in 2009 to 89.1% in 2024, down 2.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Gadsden County: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 7.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Gadsden County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gadsden County?

The bars show when commuters in Gadsden County 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 Gadsden County4.7% Florida4.7%	4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Gadsden County1.2% Florida3.5%	1.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Gadsden County5.3% Florida4.0%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Gadsden County13.8% Florida9.1%	13.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Gadsden County13.0% Florida8.9%	13.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Gadsden County18.0% Florida15.1%	18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Gadsden County13.5% Florida10.6%	13.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Gadsden County9.0% Florida13.1%	9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Gadsden County3.0% Florida5.8%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Gadsden County6.0% Florida8.0%	6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Gadsden County2.0% Florida3.5%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Gadsden County1.0% Florida1.5%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Gadsden County5.8% Florida6.3%	5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Gadsden County3.8% Florida5.9%	3.8%

Gadsden County Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Gadsden County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are less common than in Florida: 11.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Florida: 53.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.7%) 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 Gadsden County, 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 Gadsden County 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 Gadsden County 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Gadsden County	Florida	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gadsden County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:14 AM). The shift is sharper than across Florida, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Gadsden County now leave 18 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 Gadsden County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Gadsden County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gadsden County	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.1 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	9.0%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gadsden County is 31.1 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau