Texarkana Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Texarkana, Arkansas: 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 Texarkana: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Texarkana spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 125 hours, about 5.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

Texarkana holds about 0.9% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Texarkana would save about 50 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,550 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)
Texarkana	15.0 min	30.0 min	125 hrs/yr	$3,876	1,149
Arkansas	18.6 min	37.2 min	155 hrs/yr	$4,807	912
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.

Texarkana Commute Map

On average, it takes 15.0 minutes to get to work in Texarkana. That's 33% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Texarkana

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Texarkana: 3.7 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Texarkana, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.

Commute Mode Trends in Texarkana, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Texarkana 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.1%	1.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	1.0%
2010	95.2%	1.1%	0.8%	1.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.8%
2011	94.9%	1.4%	1.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.8%
2012	95.0%	1.3%	1.1%	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2013	95.8%	0.9%	1.2%	1.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.5%	0.9%	1.3%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	95.6%	1.3%	0.7%	1.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	94.8%	1.4%	0.8%	2.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	94.3%	2.0%	1.0%	1.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	93.6%	3.0%	0.6%	1.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	94.1%	3.1%	0.4%	1.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	94.0%	3.0%	0.6%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	93.7%	3.2%	0.9%	1.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	93.4%	3.0%	1.2%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	93.4%	3.6%	1.0%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	93.1%	3.6%	1.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	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 2013 at 95.8%. Overall it fell from 94.1% in 2009 to 93.1% in 2024, down 1.0 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Texarkana: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 3.6% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 2.2% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 1.1%.

Commute Start Times in Texarkana

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Texarkana?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.9%

Texarkana Arkansas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Texarkana is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across Arkansas. Early starts are about as common as in Arkansas: 14.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 48.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.3%) 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 Texarkana, 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 Texarkana 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 Texarkana next to Arkansas 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	Texarkana	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:47 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:43 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:45 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:45 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:46 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:40 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Texarkana were on the road by 7:40 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). Arkansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Texarkana now leave 2 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Texarkana's commute time compare?

Metric	Texarkana	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.0 min	18.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.6%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Texarkana is 15.0 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Arkansas. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Texarkana, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Texarkana, AR compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Texarkana, AR	27,296	15.0 min #2/2	3.6% #2/2	7:40 AM #2/2
Texarkana, TX	36,070	12.7 min	7.2%	7:38 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Texarkana, Arkansas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Texarkana, Arkansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 125 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,876 at a typical national wage. That's 19% less than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Texarkana, Arkansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Texarkana, Arkansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.