Gilchrist County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Gilchrist County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gilchrist County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 253 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.

Gilchrist County 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 Gilchrist County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,138 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)
Gilchrist County	30.4 min	60.7 min	253 hrs/yr	$7,845	598
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 30.4 minutes to get to work in Gilchrist County. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 83% of counties in Florida

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gilchrist County

• Car: 91.6%
• Worked at Home: 6.4%
• Other: 1.1%
• Walked: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Gilchrist County: 6.8 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Gilchrist County: 5.3 times less than the Florida average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Gilchrist County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gilchrist 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.3%	4.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.1%	3.8%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.3%	4.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.5%	3.2%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.7%	3.8%	0.8%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.2%	3.5%	0.9%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	93.6%	3.5%	1.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	92.6%	3.9%	0.7%	1.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2017	92.4%	4.4%	0.9%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2018	92.9%	5.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2019	93.1%	5.0%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	94.3%	3.9%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	93.7%	3.9%	1.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.6%	4.0%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.0%	3.9%	0.8%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.6%	6.4%	1.1%	0.6%	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 2012 at 95.5%. Overall it fell from 95.3% in 2009 to 91.6% in 2024, down 3.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Gilchrist County: its share of workers rose from 4.0% in 2009 to 6.4% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 1.7% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.6%.

Commute Start Times in Gilchrist County

• 🚦 Rush-Hour RegularsThe 3rd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Florida's 67 counties: 58.9% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gilchrist County?

The bars show when commuters in Gilchrist 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 Gilchrist County5.7% Florida4.7%	5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Gilchrist County2.5% Florida3.5%	2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Gilchrist County7.9% Florida4.0%	7.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Gilchrist County11.2% Florida9.1%	11.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Gilchrist County11.1% Florida8.9%	11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Gilchrist County23.0% Florida15.1%	23.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Gilchrist County10.9% Florida10.6%	10.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Gilchrist County13.9% Florida13.1%	13.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Gilchrist County2.8% Florida5.8%	2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Gilchrist County3.2% Florida8.0%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Gilchrist County0.4% Florida3.5%	0.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Gilchrist County1.1% Florida1.5%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Gilchrist County2.2% Florida6.3%	2.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Gilchrist County4.2% Florida5.9%	4.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gilchrist County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 16.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Florida: 58.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.2%) 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 Gilchrist 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 Gilchrist 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 Gilchrist 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	Gilchrist County	Florida	United States
2009	7:04 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gilchrist County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:04 AM). The shift is sharper than across Florida, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Gilchrist County now leave 23 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 Gilchrist County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Gilchrist County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gilchrist County	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.4 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.4%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gilchrist County is 30.4 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau