Bandera County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bandera County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bandera County spend about 77 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 321 hours, about 13.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 69% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 15.8 minutes.

Bandera County 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 Bandera County would save about 129 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,985 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)
Bandera County	38.6 min	77.1 min	321 hrs/yr	$9,963	535
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.

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On average, it takes 38.6 minutes to get to work in Bandera County. That's 72% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county in Texas

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bandera County

• Car: 87.3%
• Worked at Home: 9.5%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Other: 1.2%
• Taxi: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Bandera County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bandera 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	87.0%	6.9%	4.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2010	88.2%	6.9%	3.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2011	90.2%	5.5%	3.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	91.4%	4.6%	2.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.8%	5.0%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.4%	5.2%	2.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.6%	5.5%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	91.4%	6.4%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	90.0%	7.6%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	89.9%	7.4%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	92.0%	6.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	91.0%	7.2%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	89.5%	7.8%	1.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	90.2%	6.8%	1.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	88.8%	7.6%	1.7%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.3%	9.5%	1.6%	1.2%	0.4%	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 peaked in 2019 at 92.0%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 87.0% in 2009 and 87.3% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bandera County: its share of workers rose from 6.9% in 2009 to 9.5% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.0% to 1.6% of workers (down 2.4 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Bandera County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bandera County?

The bars show when commuters in Bandera 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 Bandera County7.9% Texas5.5%	7.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bandera County8.2% Texas4.4%	8.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bandera County4.1% Texas5.1%	4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bandera County8.0% Texas9.3%	8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bandera County12.0% Texas9.3%	12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bandera County13.2% Texas15.3%	13.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bandera County10.3% Texas11.8%	10.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bandera County13.8% Texas11.5%	13.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bandera County2.4% Texas4.8%	2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bandera County8.0% Texas6.7%	8.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bandera County3.5% Texas3.1%	3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bandera County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bandera County5.8% Texas5.8%	5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bandera County2.6% Texas6.2%	2.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bandera County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 13.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 20.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 49.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.9%) 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 Bandera 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 Bandera 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 Bandera 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bandera County	Texas	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bandera County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Bandera County now leave 16 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Bandera County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bandera County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	38.6 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	9.5%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bandera County is 38.6 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau