Hialeah Gardens Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Hialeah Gardens, 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 Hialeah Gardens: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hialeah Gardens spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 258 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 7.0 minutes.

Hialeah Gardens 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 Hialeah Gardens would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,200 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)
Hialeah Gardens	31.0 min	61.9 min	258 hrs/yr	$8,001	4,512
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.

Hialeah Gardens Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.0 minutes to get to work in Hialeah Gardens. That's 38% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 10.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hialeah Gardens

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Hialeah Gardens: 30.0 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hialeah Gardens, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hialeah Gardens 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	Walked	Taxi	Other	Motorcycle
2009	95.3%	1.7%	1.3%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2010	94.8%	1.7%	2.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	93.9%	2.5%	2.6%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	93.0%	3.4%	2.6%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	92.7%	3.5%	3.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	90.3%	5.3%	3.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	88.1%	8.3%	2.4%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	86.0%	10.7%	2.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	84.8%	12.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	82.5%	13.6%	1.3%	0.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2019	81.9%	14.8%	0.9%	0.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2020	82.2%	14.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	83.3%	13.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%
2022	84.9%	11.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2023	86.4%	11.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2024	87.0%	10.3%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2019 at 81.9%. Overall it fell from 95.3% in 2009 to 87.0% in 2024, down 8.3 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hialeah Gardens: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 10.3% in 2024, up 8.6 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 14.8% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 10.3%.

Commute Start Times in Hialeah Gardens

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hialeah Gardens?

The bars show when commuters in Hialeah Gardens 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		7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		6.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.3%

Hialeah Gardens Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Hialeah Gardens is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 19.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like Florida's: 49.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.3%) 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 Hialeah Gardens, 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 Hialeah Gardens 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 Hialeah Gardens 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	Hialeah Gardens	Florida	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:55 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:02 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:03 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:04 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:59 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:51 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:45 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:45 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hialeah Gardens were on the road by 7:15 AM, 24 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Hialeah Gardens 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 Hialeah Gardens has moved 18 minutes earlier.

How does Hialeah Gardens's commute time compare?

Metric	Hialeah Gardens	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.0 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.3%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hialeah Gardens is 31.0 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.7% 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

Hialeah Gardens, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Hialeah Gardens, FL is the smallest of the 4 cities compared here, 23,649 residents against a local median of 52,206. Where Hialeah Gardens, FL breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 16% below the local median of 12.2% at 10.3%.

The cities themselves spread 3.2% on work from home, so Hialeah Gardens, FL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Hialeah Gardens, FL has the 3rd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Hialeah Gardens, FL	23,649	31.0 min #2/4	10.3% #3/4	7:14 AM #1/4
Miami Lakes, FL	28,041	31.1 min	12.2%	7:47 AM
Hialeah, FL	225,005	28.3 min	13.3%	7:24 AM
Country Club, FL	52,206	31.9 min	10.1%	7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hialeah Gardens, Florida.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Hialeah Gardens, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 258 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,001 at a typical national wage. That's 29% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Hialeah Gardens, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Hialeah Gardens, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.