Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · FL · GEOID 12350002024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Jacksonville, Florida
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 24.1 min one way; 15.5% worked from home, 70.9% drove alone, and 3.8% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip24.1 min±0.4 min MOE
Worked from home15.5%±0.6 pp MOE
Drove alone70.9%±0.7 pp MOE
60+ minute trip3.8%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Jacksonville city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -0.5 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +6.7 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Jacksonville city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 70.9%; 1.0% used public transit and 15.5% worked from home.
Each share uses 480,531 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Jacksonville city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 34th percentile among covered 500k+ places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 66% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 61% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 82% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 82% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Jacksonville city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 480,531 workers age 16+, including 405,872 workers with reported travel time and 74,659 home workers.
Population estimate977,670± 41 MOE
Workers age 16+480,531± 3,754 MOE
Workers with travel time405,872± 3,703 MOE
Estimated home workers74,659± 2,754 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All Florida reports →Comparable Florida commute records for Jacksonville city
No other Florida place in the 500k+ population band met the same publication rule in this dataset.