Armstrong County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Armstrong County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Armstrong County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 194 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Armstrong 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 Armstrong County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,407 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)
Armstrong County	23.3 min	46.6 min	194 hrs/yr	$6,018	167
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 23.3 minutes to get to work in Armstrong County. That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 76% of counties in Texas

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 10.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Armstrong County

• Car: 88.9%
• Worked at Home: 10.8%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

Walking is essentially absent in Armstrong County, versus 1.5% in Texas.

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

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

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

Walking or biking to work is essentially absent in Armstrong County, versus 1.7% in Texas.

Commute Mode Trends in Armstrong County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Armstrong 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
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
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• Bicycle
• Walked
• Other

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Walked	Other
2009	94.4%	2.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%
2010	93.4%	4.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
2011	91.0%	6.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.4%
2012	90.2%	7.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.5%
2013	87.9%	8.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.5%	0.4%
2014	88.9%	9.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%
2015	89.2%	7.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%	0.6%
2016	91.4%	5.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.2%
2017	86.2%	11.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.3%	0.2%
2018	85.9%	9.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.6%	0.3%
2019	86.4%	8.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.7%	0.8%
2020	85.0%	9.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.5%	0.6%
2021	84.3%	10.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.8%	0.8%
2022	86.1%	10.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.9%	0.6%
2023	91.3%	7.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2024	88.9%	10.8%	0.2%	0.0%	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 bottomed out in 2021 at 84.3%. Overall it fell from 94.4% in 2009 to 88.9% in 2024, down 5.5 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Armstrong County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 10.8% in 2024, up 8.3 percentage points.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 4.7% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Armstrong County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Armstrong County?

The bars show when commuters in Armstrong 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 Armstrong County2.7% Texas5.5%	2.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Armstrong County5.8% Texas4.4%	5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Armstrong County7.0% Texas5.1%	7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Armstrong County15.5% Texas9.3%	15.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Armstrong County8.3% Texas9.3%	8.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Armstrong County21.0% Texas15.3%	21.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Armstrong County20.0% Texas11.8%	20.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Armstrong County6.8% Texas11.5%	6.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Armstrong County1.4% Texas4.8%	1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Armstrong County1.2% Texas6.7%	1.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Armstrong County0.3% Texas3.1%	0.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Armstrong County2.4% Texas1.3%	2.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Armstrong County5.4% Texas5.8%	5.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Armstrong County2.3% Texas6.2%	2.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Armstrong County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 15.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 56.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.5%) 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 Armstrong 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 Armstrong 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 Armstrong 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.

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• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Armstrong County	Texas	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Armstrong County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:30 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Armstrong County now leave 23 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Armstrong County in the whole series.

How does Armstrong County's commute time compare?

Metric	Armstrong County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.3 min	22.8 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	10.8%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Armstrong County is about the same as in Texas.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau