Lauderdale Lakes Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lauderdale Lakes: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lauderdale Lakes spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 212 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.

Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale Lakes would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,623 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)
Lauderdale Lakes	25.4 min	50.8 min	212 hrs/yr	$6,557	5,935
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.

Lauderdale Lakes Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.4 minutes to get to work in Lauderdale Lakes. That's 13% 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 public transit. About 4.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lauderdale Lakes

• Car: 84.1%
• Public Transportation: 6.8% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 4.7% unusually low
• Taxi: 1.6% unusually high
• Other: 1.5%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Lauderdale Lakes: 254810067.3 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually common in Lauderdale Lakes: 5.6 times more than the Florida average (6.8% vs 1.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Lauderdale Lakes: 4.6 times more than the Florida average (1.6% vs 0.4%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Lauderdale Lakes: 3.3 times less than the Florida average (4.7% vs 15.7%).

Biking is unusually rare in Lauderdale Lakes: 19160629.6 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lauderdale Lakes, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lauderdale 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Taxi	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.3%	5.9%	1.9%	0.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	90.0%	6.4%	2.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	90.5%	5.4%	2.8%	0.0%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	87.7%	7.0%	3.3%	0.0%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	85.3%	9.3%	2.9%	0.0%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	84.9%	10.4%	2.0%	0.0%	1.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	85.9%	9.4%	1.8%	0.0%	1.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	87.3%	8.7%	1.3%	0.0%	1.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	88.5%	8.1%	0.9%	0.2%	1.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	88.5%	7.5%	0.9%	0.1%	1.1%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.7%	6.4%	1.3%	0.2%	1.2%	2.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	87.9%	6.7%	1.5%	0.2%	1.7%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.2%	6.1%	2.5%	0.5%	1.5%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	85.7%	6.1%	3.4%	0.8%	1.5%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.0%	7.1%	3.5%	0.9%	1.4%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.1%	6.8%	4.7%	1.6%	1.5%	1.2%	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 2011 at 90.5%. Overall it fell from 90.3% in 2009 to 84.1% in 2024, down 6.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lauderdale Lakes: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 4.7% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi overtook biking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 10.4% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 6.8%.

Commute Start Times in Lauderdale Lakes

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lauderdale Lakes?

The bars show when commuters in Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale Lakes7.5% Florida4.7%	7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lauderdale Lakes1.8% Florida3.5%	1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lauderdale Lakes2.6% Florida4.0%	2.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lauderdale Lakes8.3% Florida9.1%	8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lauderdale Lakes7.3% Florida8.9%	7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lauderdale Lakes15.2% Florida15.1%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lauderdale Lakes9.1% Florida10.6%	9.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lauderdale Lakes11.2% Florida13.1%	11.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lauderdale Lakes6.1% Florida5.8%	6.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lauderdale Lakes9.3% Florida8.0%	9.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lauderdale Lakes2.9% Florida3.5%	2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lauderdale Lakes1.2% Florida1.5%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lauderdale Lakes10.5% Florida6.3%	10.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lauderdale Lakes7.0% Florida5.9%	7.0%

Lauderdale Lakes Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Lauderdale Lakes is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are about as common as in Florida: 11.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Florida: 42.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (31.0%) 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 Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale 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.

• Lauderdale Lakes
• Florida
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lauderdale Lakes	Florida	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:48 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:54 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:53 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:59 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:49 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:54 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:50 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:03 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:59 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:01 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:02 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:00 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:54 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lauderdale Lakes were on the road by 7:54 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:43 AM). The shift is sharper than across Florida, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Lauderdale Lakes now leave 16 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Lauderdale Lakes has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Lauderdale Lakes's commute time compare?

Metric	Lauderdale Lakes	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.4 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	4.7%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	6.8%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lauderdale Lakes is 25.4 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

6.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.2% in Florida. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau