Palm Coast Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Palm Coast, 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 Coast: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Palm Coast spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 177 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.7 minutes.

Palm Coast holds about 0.4% of Florida's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Palm Coast would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,195 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 Coast	21.2 min	42.5 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,486	2,557
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 Coast Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.2 minutes to get to work in Palm Coast. That's 5% 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 17.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Palm Coast

Commute Mode Trends in Palm Coast, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Palm Coast 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.6%	5.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.9%
2010	93.1%	4.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%
2011	92.9%	5.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%
2012	92.3%	5.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.9%
2013	92.0%	5.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%
2014	91.8%	5.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	90.0%	7.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	91.1%	6.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	91.6%	6.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	92.2%	6.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	91.7%	6.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2020	90.5%	7.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2021	87.3%	10.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	84.6%	13.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	82.3%	15.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	79.6%	17.2%	1.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 93.1%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 79.6% in 2024, down 13.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Palm Coast: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 17.2% in 2024, up 12.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Palm Coast

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Palm Coast?

The bars show when commuters in Palm Coast 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		4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		19.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Palm Coast is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 19.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% 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: 50.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.2%) 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 Coast, 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 Coast 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 Coast 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 Coast	Florida	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:53 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:57 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:04 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:11 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:12 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:09 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:10 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:10 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:09 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:07 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:04 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:55 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Palm Coast were on the road by 7:55 AM, 18 minutes later than in 2009 (7:37 AM). The shift is sharper than across Florida, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Palm Coast now leave 17 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 Palm Coast has moved 16 minutes earlier.

How does Palm Coast's commute time compare?

Metric	Palm Coast	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.2 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	17.2%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Palm Coast is 21.2 minutes, shorter than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Palm Coast, Florida.

Is commuting expensive in Palm Coast, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 177 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,486 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical Florida commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Palm Coast, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Palm Coast, 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.