Seminole County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Seminole County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Seminole County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 154 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Seminole County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,914 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)
Seminole County	18.5 min	37.0 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,784	429
Georgia	23.6 min	47.3 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,109	1,447
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.

Commute Time Map: Georgia Counties

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On average, it takes 18.5 minutes to get to work in Seminole County. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 80% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by other means. About 1.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Seminole County

• Car: 92.8%
• Other: 3.1%
• Walked: 2.4%
• Worked at Home: 1.7% 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 Seminole County, versus 0.1% in Georgia.

Public transit is essentially absent in Seminole County, versus 1.1% in Georgia.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Seminole County, versus 0.4% in Georgia.

Working from home is unusually rare in Seminole County: 9.3 times less than the Georgia average (1.7% vs 15.9%).

Biking is essentially absent in Seminole County, versus 0.2% in Georgia.

Commute Mode Trends in Seminole County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Seminole 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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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Other	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.3%	2.5%	3.8%	1.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.6%
2010	89.1%	2.7%	3.0%	3.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2011	93.6%	1.1%	1.7%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	94.0%	1.0%	1.1%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	91.6%	2.4%	1.2%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2014	90.4%	1.7%	1.7%	5.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2015	93.0%	1.1%	1.6%	3.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	92.3%	1.5%	2.2%	3.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	93.0%	1.5%	1.9%	2.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	94.7%	0.4%	1.3%	1.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2019	95.9%	0.3%	0.8%	1.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2020	94.6%	1.9%	1.2%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2021	93.7%	2.1%	1.5%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2022	93.7%	2.1%	2.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2023	95.3%	1.7%	1.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	92.8%	3.1%	2.4%	1.7%	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 2019 at 95.9% and lowest in 2010 at 89.1%. Overall it rose from 90.3% in 2009 to 92.8% in 2024, up 2.5 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.8% to 2.4% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 5.4% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 1.7%.

Commute Start Times in Seminole County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Seminole County?

The bars show when commuters in Seminole 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 Georgia for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Seminole County2.4% Georgia5.2%	2.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Seminole County2.0% Georgia3.9%	2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Seminole County5.7% Georgia4.6%	5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Seminole County11.2% Georgia9.4%	11.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Seminole County12.2% Georgia9.6%	12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Seminole County7.4% Georgia14.9%	7.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Seminole County14.9% Georgia11.5%	14.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Seminole County22.8% Georgia11.6%	22.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Seminole County2.9% Georgia5.1%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Seminole County8.5% Georgia6.7%	8.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Seminole County0.2% Georgia3.1%	0.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Seminole County0.2% Georgia1.4%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Seminole County4.3% Georgia6.4%	4.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Seminole County5.3% Georgia6.7%	5.3%

Seminole County Georgia Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Seminole County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 22.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 10.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 57.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.6%) 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 Seminole 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 Seminole 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 Seminole County next to Georgia 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Seminole County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:48 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Seminole County were on the road by 7:48 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:40 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Seminole County now leave 11 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Seminole County has moved 12 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Seminole County in the whole series.

How does Seminole County's commute time compare?

Metric	Seminole County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.5 min	23.6 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	1.7%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Seminole County is 18.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 2.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau