Sunrise Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Sunrise, 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 Sunrise: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sunrise spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 224 hours, about 9.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Sunrise 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 Sunrise would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,776 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)
Sunrise	26.9 min	53.7 min	224 hrs/yr	$6,941	4,770
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.

Sunrise Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.9 minutes to get to work in Sunrise. That's 20% 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 13.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sunrise

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Sunrise: 228.5 times less than the Florida average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Sunrise, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sunrise 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	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.9%	3.5%	0.4%	1.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2010	92.4%	3.8%	0.5%	2.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%
2011	92.5%	3.5%	0.6%	2.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	92.4%	3.7%	0.8%	2.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	91.2%	4.1%	0.9%	2.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	91.0%	4.2%	0.9%	3.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	90.6%	4.4%	0.9%	3.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	90.0%	4.6%	1.0%	3.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	89.5%	4.7%	1.1%	3.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	90.1%	4.6%	0.9%	3.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	90.1%	4.9%	1.1%	2.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	88.2%	7.4%	1.1%	1.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	86.5%	8.9%	1.5%	1.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	85.8%	10.3%	1.3%	1.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	83.9%	12.0%	1.5%	1.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2024	82.5%	13.4%	1.5%	1.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 82.5% in 2024, down 10.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sunrise: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 13.4% in 2024, up 9.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 1.0% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Sunrise

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sunrise?

The bars show when commuters in Sunrise 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		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sunrise 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: 10.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like Florida's: 48.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.4%) 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 Sunrise, 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 Sunrise 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 Sunrise 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	Sunrise	Florida	United States
2009	7:54 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:50 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:51 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:51 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:54 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:55 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:57 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:57 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:56 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:58 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:00 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:04 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:04 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:04 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:59 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sunrise were on the road by 7:59 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:54 AM). The shift is sharper than across Florida, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Sunrise now leave 21 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Sunrise's commute time compare?

Metric	Sunrise	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.9 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	13.4%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sunrise is 26.9 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

Sunrise, FL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Sunrise, FL is the 2nd largest of the 6 cities compared here, 98,854 residents against a local median of 73,979. Sunrise, FL sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these cities turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 8% above the local median at 13.4% against 12.4%. Sunrise, FL has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Sunrise, FL	98,854	26.9 min #3/6	13.4% #3/6	7:59 AM #5/6
Plantation, FL	96,427	25.4 min	17.6%	8:05 AM
Tamarac, FL	71,922	28.4 min	12.4%	7:52 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
North Lauderdale, FL	43,820	28.0 min	7.2%	7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Sunrise, Florida.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Sunrise, Florida?

Commuters here spend an estimated 224 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,941 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Florida commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Sunrise, Florida?

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