Archer County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Archer County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Archer County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.9 minutes.

Archer County holds about 0.0% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Archer County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,950 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)
Archer County	18.9 min	37.7 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,876	720
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.

Commute Time Map: Texas Counties

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On average, it takes 18.9 minutes to get to work in Archer County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Archer County

• Car: 91.8%
• Worked at Home: 6.4%
• Walked: 1.7%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

Public transit is essentially absent in Archer County, versus 0.9% in Texas.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Archer County, versus 0.2% in Texas.

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

Commute Mode Trends in Archer County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Archer 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Other
2009	92.4%	4.4%	2.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	93.8%	4.1%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2011	94.8%	3.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	94.7%	4.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2013	94.7%	4.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2014	94.7%	3.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	93.8%	4.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2016	93.0%	4.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2017	92.9%	4.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2018	91.1%	5.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
2019	90.6%	6.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
2020	91.5%	5.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2021	91.4%	6.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2022	91.9%	6.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	91.8%	6.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	91.8%	6.4%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2011 at 94.8% and lowest in 2019 at 90.6%. Overall it fell from 92.4% in 2009 to 91.8% in 2024, down 0.6 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Archer County: its share of workers rose from 4.4% in 2009 to 6.4% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Archer County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Archer County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Archer County5.3% Texas5.5%	5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Archer County2.1% Texas4.4%	2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Archer County5.9% Texas5.1%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Archer County7.5% Texas9.3%	7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Archer County14.2% Texas9.3%	14.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Archer County13.4% Texas15.3%	13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Archer County15.3% Texas11.8%	15.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Archer County13.5% Texas11.5%	13.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Archer County5.3% Texas4.8%	5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Archer County4.9% Texas6.7%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Archer County2.1% Texas3.1%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Archer County0.5% Texas1.3%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Archer County6.0% Texas5.8%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Archer County4.0% Texas6.2%	4.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Archer County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 13.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 56.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.5%) 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 Archer 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 Archer 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 Archer County 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.

• Archer County
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Archer County	Texas	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Archer County were on the road by 7:33 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Texas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Archer County now leave 5 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 Archer County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Archer County's commute time compare?

Metric	Archer County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.9 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.4%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Archer County is 18.9 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau