Putnam County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Putnam County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Putnam County spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 225 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.1 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Putnam County would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,792 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)
Putnam County	27.0 min	54.0 min	225 hrs/yr	$6,981	976
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.

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On average, it takes 27.0 minutes to get to work in Putnam County. That's 21% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in Florida

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Putnam County

• Car: 87.1%
• Worked at Home: 9.8%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Other: 1.0%
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Putnam County: 4.0 times less than the Florida average (0.3% vs 1.2%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Putnam County, versus 0.4% in Florida.

Commute Mode Trends in Putnam County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Putnam County 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Taxi

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	94.2%	2.9%	1.2%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	94.7%	2.7%	1.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	93.4%	3.3%	1.2%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	93.7%	3.0%	1.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%
2013	92.3%	3.9%	1.3%	0.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	92.0%	4.0%	1.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%
2015	92.1%	4.3%	1.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%
2016	91.8%	3.8%	1.5%	0.8%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%
2017	91.2%	4.4%	1.8%	0.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	92.2%	3.7%	1.5%	0.6%	0.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%
2019	92.1%	4.6%	1.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	90.5%	6.2%	1.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	90.2%	7.1%	1.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	89.1%	7.9%	1.3%	0.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	87.4%	9.6%	1.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	87.1%	9.8%	1.4%	1.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 94.7%. Overall it fell from 94.2% in 2009 to 87.1% in 2024, down 7.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Putnam County: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 9.8% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Putnam County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Putnam County?

The bars show when commuters in Putnam County 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	12:00-4:59 AM Putnam County8.9% Florida4.7%	8.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Putnam County5.3% Florida3.5%	5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Putnam County5.4% Florida4.0%	5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Putnam County12.3% Florida9.1%	12.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Putnam County10.1% Florida8.9%	10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Putnam County16.8% Florida15.1%	16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Putnam County10.5% Florida10.6%	10.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Putnam County9.6% Florida13.1%	9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Putnam County2.7% Florida5.8%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Putnam County5.1% Florida8.0%	5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Putnam County2.0% Florida3.5%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Putnam County1.6% Florida1.5%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Putnam County4.2% Florida6.3%	4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Putnam County5.5% Florida5.9%	5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Putnam County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 19.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like Florida's: 47.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.3%) 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 Putnam County, 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 Putnam County 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 Putnam County 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.

• Putnam County
• Florida
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Putnam County	Florida	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:07 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:10 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Putnam County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:10 AM). The shift is sharper than across Florida, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Putnam County now leave 24 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Putnam County's commute time compare?

Metric	Putnam County	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.0 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.8%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Putnam County is 27.0 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau