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Commuting in Florence, Kentucky: 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 Florence: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Florence spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Florence holds about 0.6% of Kentucky's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Florence would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,918 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)
Florence 18.6 min 37.1 min 155 hrs/yr $4,795 3,245
Kentucky 20.8 min 41.6 min 173 hrs/yr $5,369 832
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.

Florence Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.6 minutes to get to work in Florence. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Florence

  • Car: 86.5%
  • Worked at Home: 11.0%
  • Other: 1.3%
  • Public Transportation: 0.9%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Taxi: 0.1%
  • Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Florence, versus 0.1% in Kentucky.

Walking is unusually rare in Florence: 206.9 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 2.0%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Florence: just 0.2%, 12.9 times below the Kentucky average of 2.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Florence, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Florence 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 Bicycle Taxi Motorcycle Walked
2009 94.0% 1.6% 0.8% 2.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 1.3%
2010 93.6% 2.0% 0.7% 2.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 1.3%
2011 92.9% 2.4% 0.8% 2.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 1.3%
2012 92.7% 2.3% 1.0% 2.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 1.3%
2013 93.1% 2.7% 1.1% 1.7% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.7%
2014 93.6% 2.8% 0.8% 1.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.3% 0.7%
2015 93.2% 2.4% 0.7% 1.9% 0.5% 0.0% 0.1% 1.2%
2016 94.4% 2.0% 0.5% 1.4% 0.6% 0.0% 0.1% 1.0%
2017 94.7% 2.0% 0.8% 1.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.9%
2018 93.5% 2.9% 1.2% 1.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.9%
2019 92.7% 3.6% 1.1% 1.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.9%
2020 91.5% 5.9% 1.0% 0.7% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.4%
2021 88.8% 7.8% 1.7% 0.9% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3%
2022 88.2% 9.4% 1.1% 0.5% 0.1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2%
2023 87.8% 9.9% 1.2% 0.6% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
2024 86.5% 11.0% 1.3% 0.9% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2017 at 94.7%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 86.5% in 2024, down 7.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Florence: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 11.0% in 2024, up 9.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Florence

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Florence?

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

12:00-4:59 AM
5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
6.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
12.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
9.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.5%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
9.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
13.8%

Florence Kentucky Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Florence is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are about as common as in Kentucky: 14.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 42.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.7%) 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 Florence, 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 Florence 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 Florence next to Kentucky 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 Florence Kentucky United States
2009 7:43 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:46 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:43 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:43 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:46 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:44 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:51 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:51 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:48 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:51 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:49 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:38 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:30 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:33 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:33 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:37 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Florence were on the road by 7:37 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:43 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Florence now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Florence has moved 12 minutes earlier.

How does Florence's commute time compare?

Metric Florence Kentucky US Average
Avg. Commute Time 18.6 min 20.8 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 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 11.0% 10.2% 15.0%
Walked < 0.1% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.9% 0.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Florence is 18.6 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 0.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Florence, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Florence, KY compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Florence, KY 27,988 18.6 min #2/2 11.0% #2/2 7:37 AM #1/2
Erlanger, KY 23,548 18.4 min 16.3% 7:47 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Florence, Kentucky.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Florence, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 155 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,795 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Florence, Kentucky?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Florence, Kentucky. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.