Palm City Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Palm City, 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 Palm City: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Palm City spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 221 hours, about 9.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Palm City 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 Palm City would save about 88 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,735 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)
Palm City	26.5 min	52.9 min	221 hrs/yr	$6,836	4,546
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.

Palm City Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.5 minutes to get to work in Palm City. That's 18% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Palm City

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Palm City: 5887.8 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Palm City: 5.4 times less than the Florida average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Palm City: 3.5 times less than the Florida average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Palm City: 22754.7 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Palm City: just 0.6%, 3.1 times below the Florida average of 1.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Palm City, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Palm City 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.1%	6.9%	0.9%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.7%
2010	91.4%	5.3%	1.3%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2011	93.0%	5.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2012	93.3%	5.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	92.6%	6.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	90.7%	7.8%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	90.4%	8.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	89.9%	8.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	88.8%	9.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	88.0%	10.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	89.8%	9.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2020	83.8%	15.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	81.9%	16.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	79.7%	18.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	78.3%	20.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	73.4%	24.7%	1.0%	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. Its share peaked in 2012 at 93.3%. Overall it fell from 90.1% in 2009 to 73.4% in 2024, down 16.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Palm City: its share of workers rose from 6.9% in 2009 to 24.7% in 2024, up 17.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 15.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Palm City

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Palm City?

The bars show when commuters in Palm City 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		2.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.7%

Palm City Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Palm City is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are about as common as in Florida: 12.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Florida: 54.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.2%) 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 Palm City, 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 Palm City 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 Palm City 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	Palm City	Florida	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:45 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:52 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:52 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:49 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:51 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:54 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Palm City were on the road by 7:36 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:40 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Palm City now leave 2 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 Palm City has moved 18 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Palm City in the whole series.

How does Palm City's commute time compare?

Metric	Palm City	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.5 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	24.7%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Palm City is 26.5 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Palm City, Florida.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Palm City, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 221 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,836 at a typical national wage. That's 10% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Palm City, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Palm City, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Palm City, Florida?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 1.2% in Florida, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Is Palm City, Florida a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 24.7% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Palm City would save about 88 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,735 at the same national wage assumption used above.