Plantation Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Plantation, 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 Plantation: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Plantation spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 211 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.

Plantation holds about 0.4% of Florida's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Plantation would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,620 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)
Plantation	25.4 min	50.7 min	211 hrs/yr	$6,550	5,611
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.

Plantation Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.4 minutes to get to work in Plantation. That's 13% longer 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 17.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Plantation

Commute Mode Trends in Plantation, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Plantation 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	91.5%	5.3%	0.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	91.2%	5.3%	0.8%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	91.4%	5.5%	0.6%	1.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	90.4%	6.2%	0.5%	2.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	90.7%	5.8%	0.8%	1.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	91.5%	5.4%	0.6%	1.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	91.4%	5.8%	0.4%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	90.8%	6.0%	0.6%	1.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	90.6%	6.0%	0.9%	1.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	90.4%	6.5%	0.7%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	89.3%	7.2%	0.7%	1.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2020	87.9%	8.6%	1.1%	1.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2021	84.9%	11.9%	1.1%	1.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	81.9%	14.8%	1.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2023	80.2%	15.9%	1.4%	0.9%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	78.3%	17.6%	1.5%	1.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 91.5% in 2009 to 78.3% in 2024, down 13.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Plantation: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 17.6% in 2024, up 12.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 1.0% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Plantation

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Plantation?

The bars show when commuters in Plantation 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		4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		10.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Plantation is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across Florida. Early starts are less common than in Florida: 8.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like Florida's: 48.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.4%) 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 Plantation, 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 Plantation 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 Plantation 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	Plantation	Florida	United States
2009	8:00 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:02 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:03 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:00 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:01 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:58 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:56 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:56 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:55 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:54 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:54 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:55 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:55 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:57 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:01 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Plantation were on the road by 8:05 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (8:00 AM). The shift is sharper than across Florida, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Plantation now leave 27 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 Plantation has moved 11 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Plantation in the whole series.

How does Plantation's commute time compare?

Metric	Plantation	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.4 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	17.6%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	1.2%	3.2%

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

1.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Plantation, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Plantation, FL is typical in size for this group, 96,427 residents against a local median of 86,417, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Plantation, FL apart most is work from home: 17.6%, 54% above the local median of 11.4%.

The cities themselves spread 11.2% on work from home, so Plantation, FL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Plantation, FL has the highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Plantation, FL	96,427	25.4 min #2/5	17.6% #1/5	8:05 AM #5/5
Sunrise, FL	98,854	26.9 min	13.4%	7:59 AM
Lauderhill, FL	73,979	28.9 min	9.4%	7:49 AM
Davie, FL	105,718	23.8 min	15.9%	7:54 AM
Lauderdale Lakes, FL	35,781	25.4 min	4.7%	7:54 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Plantation, Florida.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 211 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,550 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Plantation, Florida?

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