Land O' Lakes Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Land O' Lakes: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Land O' Lakes spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 260 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 7.3 minutes.

Land O' Lakes 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 Land O' Lakes would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,227 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)
Land O' Lakes	31.2 min	62.5 min	260 hrs/yr	$8,067	6,332
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.

Land O' Lakes Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.2 minutes to get to work in Land O' Lakes. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 21.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Land O' Lakes

• Car: 76.8%
• Worked at Home: 21.5%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Other: 0.6%
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Land O' Lakes: 4.1 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Land O' Lakes: 12.8 times less than the Florida average (0.1% vs 1.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Land O' Lakes: 283222.8 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Land O' Lakes: 3.1 times less than the Florida average (0.2% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Land O' Lakes, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Land O' Lakes 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.8%	5.7%	0.8%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	90.2%	7.1%	0.6%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	90.6%	6.9%	0.4%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	90.4%	7.2%	0.5%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	91.6%	6.5%	0.3%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	90.7%	7.4%	0.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	91.7%	7.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	91.7%	7.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.7%	7.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.2%	8.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.4%	9.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	88.1%	10.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	84.9%	13.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	82.0%	16.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	79.4%	19.2%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	76.8%	21.5%	0.8%	0.6%	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. Overall its share fell from 91.8% in 2009 to 76.8% in 2024, down 15.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Land O' Lakes: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 21.5% in 2024, up 15.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Land O' Lakes

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Land O' Lakes?

The bars show when commuters in Land O' Lakes 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 Land O' Lakes4.4% Florida4.7%	4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Land O' Lakes5.8% Florida3.5%	5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Land O' Lakes5.3% Florida4.0%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Land O' Lakes9.7% Florida9.1%	9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Land O' Lakes11.9% Florida8.9%	11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Land O' Lakes13.5% Florida15.1%	13.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Land O' Lakes9.2% Florida10.6%	9.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Land O' Lakes11.3% Florida13.1%	11.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Land O' Lakes5.5% Florida5.8%	5.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Land O' Lakes7.5% Florida8.0%	7.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Land O' Lakes2.3% Florida3.5%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Land O' Lakes1.0% Florida1.5%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Land O' Lakes5.1% Florida6.3%	5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Land O' Lakes7.4% Florida5.9%	7.4%

Land O' Lakes Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Land O' Lakes is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 15.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like Florida's: 45.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.3%) 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 Land O' Lakes, 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 Land O' Lakes 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 Land O' Lakes 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.

• Land O' Lakes
• Florida
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Land O' Lakes	Florida	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Land O' Lakes were on the road by 7:29 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:24 AM). The shift is sharper than across Florida, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Land O' Lakes now leave 9 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Land O' Lakes's commute time compare?

Metric	Land O' Lakes	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.2 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	21.5%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Land O' Lakes is 31.2 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau