Oakland Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Oakland Park, 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 Oakland Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oakland Park spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 184 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% less time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Oakland Park 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 Oakland Park would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,280 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)
Oakland Park	22.1 min	44.1 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,701	5,600
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.

Oakland Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.1 minutes to get to work in Oakland Park. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oakland Park

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Oakland Park: 3.6 times more than the Florida average (1.3% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Oakland Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oakland Park 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	Walked	Taxi	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	87.3%	2.8%	4.4%	2.9%	0.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.7%
2010	87.7%	3.5%	4.5%	2.2%	0.2%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%
2011	87.0%	3.4%	5.4%	2.0%	0.2%	1.3%	0.7%	0.1%
2012	85.6%	3.6%	6.8%	1.7%	0.0%	1.3%	0.7%	0.2%
2013	85.2%	3.8%	7.2%	1.5%	0.2%	1.1%	0.9%	0.1%
2014	85.3%	3.5%	6.6%	2.0%	0.1%	1.0%	1.2%	0.4%
2015	84.9%	3.6%	6.6%	1.8%	0.2%	0.6%	1.9%	0.4%
2016	83.9%	3.8%	6.3%	2.5%	0.3%	0.7%	1.8%	0.7%
2017	84.8%	4.3%	5.1%	2.3%	0.6%	0.8%	1.7%	0.6%
2018	84.4%	4.3%	4.3%	2.4%	0.6%	1.0%	2.1%	0.7%
2019	84.0%	4.3%	5.2%	1.8%	0.7%	1.5%	1.9%	0.4%
2020	83.3%	6.9%	4.7%	1.6%	0.8%	1.4%	1.0%	0.3%
2021	82.2%	8.7%	3.8%	1.6%	0.9%	1.4%	1.0%	0.3%
2022	80.7%	9.8%	4.0%	1.9%	0.7%	1.2%	1.1%	0.6%
2023	79.5%	11.2%	4.2%	1.3%	1.1%	1.5%	0.7%	0.5%
2024	80.3%	11.8%	2.8%	1.7%	1.3%	1.1%	0.7%	0.5%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2010 at 87.7% and lowest in 2023 at 79.5%. Overall it fell from 87.3% in 2009 to 80.3% in 2024, down 7.0 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Oakland Park: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 11.8% in 2024, up 9.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 4.4% to 2.8% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Biking peaked at 2.1% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.

Commute Start Times in Oakland Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oakland Park?

The bars show when commuters in Oakland Park 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		3.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.2%

Oakland Park Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Oakland Park is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 13.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across Florida. Early starts are less common than in Florida: 9.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like Florida's: 45.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.5%) 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 Oakland Park, 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 Oakland Park 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 Oakland Park 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	Oakland Park	Florida	United States
2009	7:51 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:55 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:57 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:01 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:01 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:07 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:10 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:09 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:07 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:06 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:02 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:59 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:00 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:55 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:00 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oakland Park were on the road by 8:00 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:51 AM). The shift is sharper than across Florida, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Oakland Park now leave 22 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 Oakland Park has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Oakland Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Oakland Park	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.1 min	24.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	11.8%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.8%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oakland Park is 22.1 minutes, shorter than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

2.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.2% in Florida. 1.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Oakland Park, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Oakland Park, FL compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Oakland Park, FL	45,203	22.1 min #1/3	11.8% #2/3	8:00 AM #2/3
Fort Lauderdale, FL	179,641	22.6 min	18.4%	8:01 AM
Lauderdale Lakes, FL	35,781	25.4 min	4.7%	7:54 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Oakland Park, Florida.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Oakland Park, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 184 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,701 at a typical national wage. That's 8% less than the typical Florida commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Oakland Park, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Oakland Park, 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.