Port St. Lucie Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Port St. Lucie, 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 Port St. Lucie: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Port St. Lucie spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 239 hours, about 10.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.7 minutes.

Port St. Lucie holds about 1.0% of Florida's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Port St. Lucie would save about 96 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,965 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)
Port St. Lucie	28.7 min	57.4 min	239 hrs/yr	$7,414	4,794
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.

Port St. Lucie Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.7 minutes to get to work in Port St. Lucie. That's 28% 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 12.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Port St. Lucie

Public transit is unusually rare in Port St. Lucie: 5.1 times less than the Florida average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Port St. Lucie: 42.9 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Port St. Lucie, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Port St. Lucie 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	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	94.0%	4.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	93.4%	4.2%	0.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	93.0%	4.7%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	91.7%	5.9%	0.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	91.2%	6.1%	0.5%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	90.7%	6.0%	0.4%	1.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	91.2%	6.1%	0.5%	1.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	91.1%	5.5%	0.5%	1.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	91.6%	4.6%	1.0%	1.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	91.2%	5.1%	0.9%	1.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	90.9%	5.2%	1.3%	1.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	90.7%	5.3%	1.9%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	90.3%	7.1%	1.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	88.5%	9.0%	1.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	87.0%	10.5%	1.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	84.6%	12.7%	1.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 84.6% in 2024, down 9.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Port St. Lucie: its share of workers rose from 4.3% in 2009 to 12.7% in 2024, up 8.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Port St. Lucie

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Port St. Lucie?

The bars show when commuters in Port St. Lucie 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		5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.2%

Port St. Lucie Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Port St. Lucie is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 14.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like Florida's: 49.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.4%) 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 Port St. Lucie, 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 Port St. Lucie 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 Port St. Lucie 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	Port St. Lucie	Florida	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Port St. Lucie were on the road by 7:31 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Port St. Lucie now leave 6 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 Port St. Lucie has moved 11 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Port St. Lucie in the whole series.

How does Port St. Lucie's commute time compare?

Metric	Port St. Lucie	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.7 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	12.7%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Port St. Lucie is 28.7 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Is commuting expensive in Port St. Lucie, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 239 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,414 at a typical national wage. That's 20% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Port St. Lucie, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Port St. Lucie, 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.

Do people use public transit in Port St. Lucie, 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.