Key Indicators – Highlands
Source: Health Data, Highlands, Florida, countyhealthrankings.org, 2025
Source: flhealthcharts.gov, 2023, 2024
Updated 09/06/25 2216
Maps – Transportation & Infrastructure
Average Commute Time
For Highlands County residents the average commute time to work is 21.9 minutes. The average commute time to work for all Florida residents was 28.0 minutes.
Highlands County has a lower average commute time than every surrounding county.
Source: Mean Travel Time to Work (In Minutes) (Census ACS), flhealthcharts.gov, 2023
Access to High Speed Internet
84.7% of Highlands County households have access to high speed internet via cellular data plan, satellite internet service, cable internet service, fiber optics, or DSL.
The median rate of high speed internet access for counties in the state of Florida is 89.3%.
69% of Florida counties have a higher percentage of households with high speed internet access than Highlands County.
Source: Households With Access to Broadband Internet (Census ACS), flhealthcharts.gov, 2023
Infrastructure Statistics – Highlands
Access to Technology
Do Highlands County residents have access to computers at home?
Residents with home computers are often better able to track essential information such as health records, educational needs, and local news. In general, they are better able to obtain, use, and transmit information, than their computerless counterparts.
93.3% of Highlands County households have a smartphone or other computing device at home.
13.4% of Highlands County households have no computing device other than a smartphone, and 86.6% of Highlands County households have home access to at least one computing device other than a smartphone.
Statewide, 91.1% of households have access to at least one computing device other than a smartphone.
Source: Households With One or More Types of Computing Devices (Census ACS), flhealthcharts.gov, 2023
Access to Internet
Do Highlands County residents have access to the internet at home?
Residents with internet access are often far more computer literate than their counterparts and have far greater access to information about their own health, their own finances, and the community around them.
In Highlands County, 84.9% of households have access to the internet at home, as compared to 90.4% of households statewide.
Source: Households With Access to Broadband Internet (Census ACS), flhealthcharts.gov, 2023
13.8% of Highlands households can only access the internet at home via a cellphone.
Source: Households With Access to Broadband Internet (Census ACS), flhealthcharts.gov, 2023
Access to High Speed Internet
Do Hardee County residents have access to high speed internet?
64.9% of Highlands households have access to high speed internet via satellite, DSL, fiber optics, or other means. Across the state of Florida, 76.3% of households have access to high speed internet.
Source: Households With Access to Broadband Internet (Census ACS), flhealthcharts.gov, 2023
Traffic Volume
How crowded are Highlands County roadways?
Average traffic volume per day on major roadways in the county.
Traffic Volume in Highlands County is far below the statewide average, but similar to the traffic volume in Citrus County, one of the few nearby counties with a population size close to that of Highlands County.
Source: Health Data, Highlands, Florida, countyhealthrankings.org, 2025
Traffic Safety
How safe are Hardee County roadways?
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