Texas County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Texas County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Texas County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Texas County holds about 0.4% of Missouri's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Texas County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,083 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)
Texas County	20.2 min	40.3 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,206	757
Missouri	21.0 min	41.9 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,415	923
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: Missouri Counties

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On average, it takes 20.2 minutes to get to work in Texas County. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Texas County

• Car: 90.4%
• Worked at Home: 6.5%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 1.3%
• Taxi: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Texas County, versus 0.1% in Missouri.

Public transit is unusually rare in Texas County: 15.0 times less than the Missouri average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Biking is essentially absent in Texas County, versus 0.2% in Missouri.

Commute Mode Trends in Texas County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Texas 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Taxi
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.4%	5.6%	2.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	90.8%	4.9%	3.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	92.5%	3.6%	2.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	93.4%	3.4%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	94.8%	3.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	95.0%	2.4%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2015	94.8%	2.4%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	95.0%	2.5%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	92.7%	3.9%	2.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	91.2%	4.1%	3.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	91.4%	4.2%	3.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.1%	4.5%	2.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.1%	4.5%	3.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.7%	4.6%	2.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.0%	5.0%	1.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.4%	6.5%	1.5%	1.3%	0.4%	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 2014 at 95.0%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 90.4% in 2009 and 90.4% in 2024. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Texas County: its share of workers rose from 5.6% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.5% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Texas County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Texas County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Texas County7.1% Missouri5.2%	7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Texas County7.5% Missouri3.9%	7.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Texas County7.5% Missouri5.3%	7.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Texas County9.6% Missouri9.0%	9.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Texas County13.4% Missouri10.4%	13.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Texas County13.6% Missouri15.0%	13.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Texas County13.4% Missouri13.6%	13.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Texas County5.6% Missouri10.1%	5.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Texas County4.1% Missouri4.5%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Texas County3.7% Missouri5.2%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Texas County0.9% Missouri2.6%	0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Texas County0.4% Missouri1.2%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Texas County7.0% Missouri7.0%	7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Texas County6.5% Missouri6.9%	6.5%

Texas County Missouri Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Texas County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 22.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Missouri: 45.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.4%) 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 Texas 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 Texas 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 Texas County next to Missouri 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.

• Texas County
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Texas County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:09 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Texas County were on the road by 7:11 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:17 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Texas County now leave 27 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Texas County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Texas County's commute time compare?

Metric	Texas County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.2 min	21.0 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.5%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Texas County is 20.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau