Sun City Center Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Sun City Center, 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 Sun City Center: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sun City Center spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.7 minutes.

Sun City Center holds about 0.1% of Florida's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sun City Center would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,171 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)
Sun City Center	30.7 min	61.4 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,927	3,775
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.

Sun City Center Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.7 minutes to get to work in Sun City Center. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 24.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sun City Center

Biking is essentially absent in Sun City Center, versus 0.5% in Florida.

Commute Mode Trends in Sun City Center, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sun City Center 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	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	85.3%	6.4%	5.8%	0.1%	1.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	84.8%	6.7%	7.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	82.1%	9.6%	6.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	81.6%	9.4%	7.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	85.5%	7.2%	5.1%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2014	85.8%	5.9%	5.6%	0.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2015	85.6%	7.1%	4.1%	0.7%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2016	84.6%	7.0%	4.8%	0.5%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	85.0%	8.0%	4.1%	0.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	83.9%	9.3%	3.3%	1.2%	2.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	83.2%	12.0%	2.3%	0.8%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	80.7%	15.1%	1.8%	0.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	76.4%	20.1%	1.4%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	75.4%	20.9%	1.6%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	70.5%	26.4%	1.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	70.7%	24.7%	2.1%	1.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2014 at 85.8% and lowest in 2023 at 70.5%. Overall it fell from 85.3% in 2009 to 70.7% in 2024, down 14.6 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sun City Center: its share of workers rose from 6.4% in 2009 to 24.7% in 2024, up 18.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.9% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 26.4% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 24.7%.

Commute Start Times in Sun City Center

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sun City Center?

The bars show when commuters in Sun City Center 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		6.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.1%

Sun City Center Florida Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Sun City Center is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 16.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Florida: 40.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.0%) 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 Sun City Center, 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 Sun City Center 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 Sun City Center 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	Sun City Center	Florida	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:44 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:42 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sun City Center were on the road by 7:26 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Sun City Center now leave 12 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 Sun City Center has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Sun City Center's commute time compare?

Metric	Sun City Center	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.7 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	24.7%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.1%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sun City Center is 30.7 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

1.1% 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

Sun City Center, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Sun City Center, FL compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Sun City Center, FL	26,829	30.7 min #1/3	24.7% #2/3	7:26 AM #3/3
Apollo Beach, FL	36,713	33.4 min	27.5%	7:22 AM
Ruskin, FL	26,836	35.8 min	18.5%	7:23 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Sun City Center, Florida.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Sun City Center, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 256 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,927 at a typical national wage. That's 28% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Sun City Center, Florida?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Sun City Center, Florida. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much money can remote workers save in Sun City Center, Florida?

About 24.7% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Sun City Center would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,171 at the same national wage assumption used above.