Pompano Beach Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pompano Beach, 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 Pompano Beach: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pompano Beach spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 193 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Pompano Beach holds about 0.5% of Florida's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pompano Beach would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,397 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)
Pompano Beach	23.2 min	46.4 min	193 hrs/yr	$5,993	5,603
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.

Pompano Beach Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.2 minutes to get to work in Pompano Beach. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pompano Beach

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Pompano Beach: 4.4 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Pompano Beach: 3.4 times more than the Florida average (1.2% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Pompano Beach, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pompano Beach 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	Other	Taxi	Walked	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	86.5%	4.8%	4.4%	1.7%	0.0%	1.4%	0.8%	0.4%
2010	85.5%	5.8%	4.3%	1.6%	0.0%	1.4%	1.0%	0.4%
2011	85.3%	4.8%	5.0%	1.4%	0.0%	1.5%	1.3%	0.6%
2012	85.7%	4.2%	5.3%	1.6%	0.1%	1.2%	1.2%	0.7%
2013	87.6%	3.6%	4.4%	1.3%	0.0%	1.3%	1.3%	0.5%
2014	87.0%	3.6%	5.0%	0.9%	0.0%	1.6%	1.5%	0.4%
2015	86.0%	3.7%	5.2%	1.5%	0.1%	1.9%	1.3%	0.4%
2016	85.7%	4.1%	4.6%	1.8%	0.0%	2.3%	1.0%	0.4%
2017	85.2%	4.5%	4.0%	2.6%	0.2%	2.3%	0.9%	0.3%
2018	84.9%	4.1%	4.0%	3.1%	0.3%	2.5%	0.6%	0.5%
2019	83.6%	4.5%	3.4%	4.1%	0.3%	2.9%	0.7%	0.4%
2020	83.0%	6.2%	2.9%	4.1%	0.4%	2.2%	0.7%	0.4%
2021	83.3%	7.7%	2.0%	3.9%	0.5%	1.5%	0.7%	0.4%
2022	81.9%	9.4%	1.9%	3.2%	0.6%	1.9%	0.9%	0.2%
2023	80.7%	11.2%	2.2%	2.8%	0.6%	1.5%	0.8%	0.1%
2024	81.6%	11.4%	2.1%	1.9%	1.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2013 at 87.6% and lowest in 2023 at 80.7%. Overall it fell from 86.5% in 2009 to 81.6% in 2024, down 4.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pompano Beach: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 11.4% in 2024, up 6.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 4.4% to 2.1% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook biking to become the 5th most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 2.9% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 1.0%.

Commute Start Times in Pompano Beach

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pompano Beach?

The bars show when commuters in Pompano Beach 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		4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pompano Beach is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 14.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Florida: 42.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.1%) 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 Pompano Beach, 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 Pompano Beach 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 Pompano Beach 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	Pompano Beach	Florida	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:52 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:49 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:50 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:53 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:48 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pompano Beach were on the road by 7:42 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Florida, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Pompano Beach now leave 4 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 Pompano Beach has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Pompano Beach's commute time compare?

Metric	Pompano Beach	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.2 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.4%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.1%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pompano Beach is 23.2 minutes, shorter than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

2.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.2% in Florida. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pompano Beach, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Pompano Beach, FL compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pompano Beach, FL	108,674	23.2 min #1/3	11.4% #3/3	7:42 AM #1/3
Deerfield Beach, FL	82,666	25.7 min	12.4%	8:02 AM
Coconut Creek, FL	57,412	28.1 min	14.1%	7:59 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Is living in Pompano Beach, Florida good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 193 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,993 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical Florida commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Pompano Beach, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pompano Beach, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.