Lafayette County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lafayette County, 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 Lafayette County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lafayette 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 258 hours, about 10.7 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.

Lafayette County holds about 0.0% of Florida's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lafayette County would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,195 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)
Lafayette County	30.9 min	61.8 min	258 hrs/yr	$7,987	544
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.

Commute Time Map: Florida Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Florida

Taylor County (13.8 min)
Monroe County (16.1 min)
Franklin County (16.6 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Florida

Washington County (32.8 min)
Osceola County (32.3 min)
Liberty County (32.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Lafayette County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 30.9 minutes to get to work in Lafayette County. That's 38% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 86% of counties in Florida

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by other means. About 4.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lafayette County

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Lafayette County: 10.9 times less than the Florida average (0.1% vs 1.2%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Lafayette County: 3.9 times less than the Florida average (4.1% vs 15.7%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Lafayette County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lafayette 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.

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	Other	Worked at Home	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.8%	1.2%	4.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2010	90.8%	0.7%	5.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.9%
2011	90.0%	0.3%	5.1%	1.8%	0.0%	1.5%	0.7%	0.6%
2012	88.8%	0.7%	6.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.6%
2013	89.6%	0.4%	5.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.8%	0.9%	1.4%
2014	89.8%	0.4%	5.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.9%	1.0%	0.8%
2015	93.4%	0.4%	3.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.6%
2016	94.0%	0.4%	3.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.8%
2017	95.7%	0.0%	1.3%	1.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.9%
2018	97.1%	0.0%	1.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	98.0%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	95.4%	2.0%	0.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.8%	2.2%	1.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.4%	2.6%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.7%	2.5%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.4%	5.1%	4.1%	1.2%	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. Its share was highest in 2019 at 98.0% and lowest in 2012 at 88.8%. Overall it fell from 92.8% in 2009 to 89.4% in 2024, down 3.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Lafayette County: its share of workers rose from 0.5% in 2009 to 1.2% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Walking overtook biking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 6.5% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 4.1%.

Commute Start Times in Lafayette County

Rush-Hour DodgersThe lowest share of rush-hour departures among Florida's 67 counties: only 33.8% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.
Earlier AlarmsThe biggest shift to earlier mornings among Florida's 67 counties: the typical start is 35 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lafayette County?

The bars show when commuters in Lafayette 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		12.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		16.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		3.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		4.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		0.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lafayette County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 24.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Florida: 33.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.8%) 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 Lafayette 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 Lafayette 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 Lafayette 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lafayette County	Florida	United States
2009	7:54 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lafayette County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 34 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:54 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Lafayette 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 Lafayette County has moved 15 minutes later.

How does Lafayette County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lafayette County	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.9 min	24.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.1%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lafayette County is 30.9 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lafayette County, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Lafayette County, FL is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 8,161 residents against a local median of 19,040. Lafayette County, FL's one-way commute, at 30.9 min, runs 44% above the 21.5 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 4.1% against a local median of 6.4%, 37% below it. The counties themselves spread 16.6 min on one-way commute, so Lafayette County, FL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Lafayette County, FL has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lafayette County, FL	8,161	30.9 min #6/6	4.1% #6/6	7:19 AM #3/6
Suwannee County, FL	45,342	23.2 min	8.3%	7:23 AM
Dixie County, FL	17,058	21.5 min	5.7%	7:29 AM
Taylor County, FL	21,503	13.8 min	8.0%	7:24 AM
Gilchrist County, FL	19,040	30.4 min	6.4%	7:15 AM
Madison County, FL	18,089	21.5 min	4.7%	7:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lafayette County, Florida.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Lafayette County, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 258 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,987 at a typical national wage. That's 29% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Lafayette County, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Lafayette County, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Lafayette County, Florida?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 1.2% in Florida, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Florida have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Florida, the shortest average commutes are in Taylor County (13.8 min), Monroe County (16.1 min), Franklin County (16.6 min). The longest are in Washington County (32.8 min), Osceola County (32.3 min), Liberty County (32.1 min).