Union County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Union County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Union County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 267 hours, about 11.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% more time on the road than the Florida average of 24.0 minutes each way, a difference of 8.1 minutes.

Union County holds about 0.1% of Florida's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Union County would save about 107 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,310 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)
Union County	32.0 min	64.1 min	267 hrs/yr	$8,276	646
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 32.0 minutes to get to work in Union County. That's 43% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Florida

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Union County

• Car: 91.6%
• Worked at Home: 7.7%
• Other: 0.5%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Union County, versus 0.2% in Florida.

Walking is unusually rare in Union County: 5.3 times less than the Florida average (0.3% vs 1.4%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Union County, versus 1.2% in Florida.

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

Biking is essentially absent in Union County, versus 0.5% in Florida.

Few people walk or bike to work in Union County: just 0.3%, 7.1 times below the Florida average of 1.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Union County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Union 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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• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.2%	5.8%	3.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.6%	6.2%	2.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.0%	4.4%	2.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.3%	3.8%	0.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.0%	3.3%	1.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.5%	2.3%	0.0%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	93.7%	3.3%	0.0%	2.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	92.3%	2.8%	1.6%	2.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	89.6%	4.2%	1.5%	3.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	89.9%	3.7%	1.6%	2.9%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	89.7%	4.6%	1.9%	2.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.3%	5.8%	1.6%	0.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.7%	6.7%	0.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.7%	6.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.4%	6.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.6%	7.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	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 95.5% and lowest in 2017 at 89.6%. Overall it rose from 90.2% in 2009 to 91.6% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Union County: its share of workers rose from 5.8% in 2009 to 7.7% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 1.7% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Union County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Union County?

The bars show when commuters in Union 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 Union County8.4% Florida4.7%	8.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Union County5.5% Florida3.5%	5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Union County7.9% Florida4.0%	7.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Union County9.1% Florida9.1%	9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Union County14.5% Florida8.9%	14.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Union County24.2% Florida15.1%	24.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Union County8.5% Florida10.6%	8.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Union County5.4% Florida13.1%	5.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Union County3.1% Florida5.8%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Union County0.8% Florida8.0%	0.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Union County1.3% Florida3.5%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Union County0.0% Florida1.5%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Union County6.9% Florida6.3%	6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Union County4.5% Florida5.9%	4.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Union County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 24.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Florida. Early starts are more common than in Florida: 21.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Florida: 52.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.7% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.5%) 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 Union 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 Union 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 Union 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.

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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Union County	Florida	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:47 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:07 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:09 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:04 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:03 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:05 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:08 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:06 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Union County were on the road by 7:06 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). That goes against the trend across Florida, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Union County now leave 32 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Union County's commute time compare?

Metric	Union County	Florida	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.0 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.7%	15.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Union County is 32.0 minutes, longer than the 24.0 minutes in Florida.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Florida. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Florida.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau