Addison Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Addison, Texas: 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 Addison: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Addison spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 184 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Addison holds about 0.1% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Addison would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,275 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)
Addison	22.0 min	44.0 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,689	4,121
Texas	22.8 min	45.6 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,888	1,441
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.

Addison Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.0 minutes to get to work in Addison. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Addison

Biking is unusually rare in Addison: 3.9 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Addison, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Addison 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	90.5%	5.1%	2.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	89.8%	5.2%	3.2%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	91.6%	4.9%	2.2%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	90.8%	5.5%	2.1%	0.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	89.1%	6.1%	2.0%	0.7%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	88.9%	5.8%	2.1%	0.6%	2.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	88.5%	5.7%	2.2%	0.9%	2.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	88.6%	5.3%	2.5%	0.8%	2.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	88.2%	5.9%	2.6%	0.6%	2.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	89.6%	5.5%	2.1%	0.5%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	88.2%	6.1%	2.2%	0.7%	2.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2020	83.0%	11.7%	2.2%	0.5%	2.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	79.3%	14.6%	2.3%	1.1%	2.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	78.3%	15.8%	1.9%	1.3%	2.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	74.7%	20.3%	1.2%	1.5%	2.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	72.3%	24.0%	1.2%	1.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 91.6%. Overall it fell from 90.5% in 2009 to 72.3% in 2024, down 18.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Addison: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 24.0% in 2024, up 18.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 2.6% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.9%.

Commute Start Times in Addison

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Addison?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		3.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		11.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Addison is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 8.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 44.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (29.2%) 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 Addison, 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 Addison 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 Addison next to Texas 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	Addison	Texas	United States
2009	7:57 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:56 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:02 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:05 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:02 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:03 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:02 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:57 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:57 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:01 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:59 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:00 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:03 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:03 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:02 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:03 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Addison were on the road by 8:03 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:57 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Addison now leave 25 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Addison has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Addison's commute time compare?

Metric	Addison	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.0 min	22.8 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	24.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Addison is 22.0 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Texas. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Addison, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Addison, TX is the smallest of the 5 cities compared here, 20,794 residents against a local median of 84,356. Addison, TX sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these cities turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 9% above the local median at 24.0% against 22.1%. Addison, TX has the 2nd highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Addison, TX	20,794	22.0 min #3/5	24.0% #2/5	8:03 AM #3/5
Farmers Branch, TX	29,458	21.0 min	18.0%	7:57 AM
Carrollton, TX	139,254	22.9 min	21.6%	7:49 AM
University Park, TX	25,094	16.1 min	22.7%	8:22 AM
Plano, TX	290,173	22.9 min	27.6%	8:03 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Addison, Texas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Addison, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 184 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,689 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Addison, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Addison, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much money can remote workers save in Addison, Texas?

About 24.0% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Addison would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,275 at the same national wage assumption used above.