Oak Ridge Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Oak Ridge, 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 Oak Ridge: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oak Ridge spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 215 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Oak Ridge 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 Oak Ridge would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,665 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)
Oak Ridge	25.8 min	51.6 min	215 hrs/yr	$6,663	5,955
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.

Oak Ridge Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.8 minutes to get to work in Oak Ridge. That's 15% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 4.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oak Ridge

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Oak Ridge, versus 0.2% in Florida.

Walking is unusually common in Oak Ridge: 3.6 times more than the Florida average (4.9% vs 1.4%).

Public transit is unusually common in Oak Ridge: 3.6 times more than the Florida average (4.4% vs 1.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Oak Ridge: 12.6 times more than the Florida average (4.5% vs 0.4%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Oak Ridge: 3.4 times less than the Florida average (4.6% vs 15.7%).

Oak Ridge stands out for active commuting: 6.2% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.3 times the Florida average of 1.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Oak Ridge, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oak Ridge 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	Walked	Worked at Home	Taxi	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Other	Motorcycle
2009	83.8%	1.8%	1.3%	0.3%	8.6%	0.4%	3.7%	0.0%
2010	83.9%	1.8%	0.8%	0.0%	8.8%	0.3%	4.4%	0.1%
2011	84.5%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	9.3%	0.1%	4.2%	0.0%
2012	83.2%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	9.4%	0.4%	4.9%	0.0%
2013	86.6%	1.1%	0.7%	0.2%	8.6%	0.6%	2.2%	0.0%
2014	87.1%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	9.1%	0.7%	1.4%	0.0%
2015	87.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	9.6%	0.7%	1.2%	0.1%
2016	87.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	9.6%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%
2017	86.7%	1.1%	0.6%	0.3%	9.3%	0.8%	0.9%	0.3%
2018	86.1%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	10.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.6%
2019	84.6%	1.4%	1.3%	0.2%	10.3%	0.7%	1.0%	0.6%
2020	82.0%	0.7%	2.1%	0.4%	10.8%	1.7%	1.4%	0.8%
2021	83.7%	2.0%	3.2%	0.3%	8.6%	0.5%	0.9%	0.9%
2022	84.9%	2.2%	5.3%	1.0%	5.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.4%
2023	82.8%	3.6%	4.7%	0.7%	6.4%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2024	79.3%	4.9%	4.6%	4.5%	4.4%	1.3%	1.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 87.3%. Overall it fell from 83.8% in 2009 to 79.3% in 2024, down 4.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Taking a taxi gained the most ground in Oak Ridge: its share of workers rose from 0.3% in 2009 to 4.5% in 2024, up 4.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 8.6% to 4.4% of workers (down 4.2 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Oak Ridge

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oak Ridge?

The bars show when commuters in Oak Ridge 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		10.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		0.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		18.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		4.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.9%

Oak Ridge Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Oak Ridge is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 18.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 15.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Florida: 36.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.9%) 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 Oak Ridge, 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 Oak Ridge 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 Oak Ridge 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	Oak Ridge	Florida	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:53 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:50 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:02 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:05 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:59 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:05 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:09 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:05 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:02 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oak Ridge were on the road by 7:30 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Oak Ridge now leave 8 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 Oak Ridge has moved 35 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Oak Ridge in the whole series.

How does Oak Ridge's commute time compare?

Metric	Oak Ridge	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.8 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.6%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	4.9%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.4%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oak Ridge is 25.8 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

4.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.2% in Florida. 4.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Oak Ridge, Florida.

Is commuting expensive in Oak Ridge, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 215 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,663 at a typical national wage. That's 8% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Oak Ridge, Florida?

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

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Oak Ridge, Florida?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 4.4% of commuters use it versus 1.2% in Florida, making it a realistic option for many workers.