Lake Worth Beach Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lake Worth Beach, 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 Lake Worth Beach: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lake Worth Beach spend about 50 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 210 hours, about 8.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Lake Worth Beach 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 Lake Worth Beach would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,599 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)
Lake Worth Beach	25.2 min	50.3 min	210 hrs/yr	$6,499	4,455
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.

Lake Worth Beach Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.2 minutes to get to work in Lake Worth Beach. That's 12% 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 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lake Worth Beach

Public transit is unusually common in Lake Worth Beach: 3.4 times more than the Florida average (4.1% vs 1.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lake Worth Beach, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lake Worth Beach 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	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.0%	1.1%	5.4%	1.5%	4.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	88.4%	1.1%	4.6%	1.4%	3.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	89.3%	1.0%	4.7%	0.8%	3.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	89.8%	1.1%	4.2%	0.6%	3.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	90.4%	1.5%	4.0%	0.1%	2.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	88.8%	2.0%	3.7%	1.8%	1.7%	1.4%	0.3%	0.2%
2015	87.4%	2.9%	4.6%	1.6%	1.1%	1.6%	0.3%	0.3%
2016	84.9%	4.5%	5.5%	1.7%	1.0%	1.8%	0.1%	0.4%
2017	85.2%	4.4%	5.3%	1.9%	1.2%	1.4%	0.4%	0.2%
2018	85.4%	4.8%	4.8%	2.1%	1.3%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%
2019	87.1%	4.5%	4.3%	1.0%	1.5%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%
2020	85.3%	5.3%	4.7%	1.4%	1.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.4%
2021	84.9%	5.7%	3.7%	2.1%	2.1%	0.5%	0.7%	0.3%
2022	83.6%	6.7%	3.7%	1.8%	2.1%	0.6%	0.6%	0.8%
2023	81.4%	7.2%	4.0%	3.1%	2.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.7%
2024	80.6%	8.7%	4.1%	3.3%	1.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 90.4%. Overall it fell from 87.0% in 2009 to 80.6% in 2024, down 6.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lake Worth Beach: its share of workers rose from 1.1% in 2009 to 8.7% in 2024, up 7.6 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.4% to 1.5% of workers (down 2.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Biking peaked at 1.8% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.

Commute Start Times in Lake Worth Beach

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lake Worth Beach?

The bars show when commuters in Lake Worth Beach 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		3.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.0%

Lake Worth Beach Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Lake Worth Beach is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are about as common as in Florida: 12.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Florida: 50.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.6%) 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 Lake Worth Beach, 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 Lake Worth Beach 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 Lake Worth Beach 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	Lake Worth Beach	Florida	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lake Worth Beach were on the road by 7:25 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Florida followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes later. Commuters in Lake Worth Beach now leave 13 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 Lake Worth Beach has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Lake Worth Beach's commute time compare?

Metric	Lake Worth Beach	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.2 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	8.7%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.1%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lake Worth Beach is 25.2 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

4.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.2% in Florida. 1.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lake Worth Beach, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Lake Worth Beach, FL compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lake Worth Beach, FL	43,319	25.2 min #2/2	8.7% #1/2	7:25 AM #2/2
Palm Springs, FL	30,360	23.9 min	5.2%	7:20 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lake Worth Beach, Florida.

Is commuting expensive in Lake Worth Beach, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 210 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,499 at a typical national wage. That's 5% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Lake Worth Beach, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Lake Worth Beach, 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.

How common is public transit use in Lake Worth Beach, Florida?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 4.1% of commuters use it versus 1.2% in Florida, making it a realistic option for many workers.