Bastrop County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bastrop County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bastrop County spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 273 hours, about 11.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 44% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 9.9 minutes.

Bastrop County holds about 0.4% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bastrop County would save about 109 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,382 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)
Bastrop County	32.7 min	65.4 min	273 hrs/yr	$8,454	1,547
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 32.7 minutes to get to work in Bastrop County. That's 46% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 15.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bastrop County

• Car: 79.2%
• Worked at Home: 15.7%
• Other: 2.4%
• Walked: 2.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Biking is unusually rare in Bastrop County: 4.4 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Bastrop County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bastrop 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
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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.8%	3.2%	2.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	93.6%	3.2%	1.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	92.5%	3.4%	1.5%	1.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	92.6%	3.6%	1.0%	1.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	92.3%	3.9%	1.2%	1.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	92.7%	4.0%	0.9%	1.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	93.3%	3.8%	0.7%	1.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.7%	4.2%	0.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.7%	3.9%	1.0%	1.4%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	92.7%	4.1%	0.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	92.1%	4.4%	0.9%	1.6%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	89.5%	5.9%	1.3%	2.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	88.5%	7.8%	1.1%	1.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	86.8%	10.2%	0.5%	1.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	82.1%	13.6%	1.9%	2.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	79.2%	15.7%	2.4%	2.2%	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 2016 at 93.7%. Overall it fell from 92.8% in 2009 to 79.2% in 2024, down 13.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bastrop County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 15.7% in 2024, up 12.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Bastrop County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bastrop County?

The bars show when commuters in Bastrop 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 Bastrop County7.7% Texas5.5%	7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bastrop County8.5% Texas4.4%	8.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bastrop County6.2% Texas5.1%	6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bastrop County12.4% Texas9.3%	12.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bastrop County11.4% Texas9.3%	11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bastrop County13.6% Texas15.3%	13.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bastrop County9.2% Texas11.8%	9.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bastrop County9.8% Texas11.5%	9.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bastrop County1.9% Texas4.8%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bastrop County4.6% Texas6.7%	4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bastrop County3.0% Texas3.1%	3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bastrop County2.2% Texas1.3%	2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bastrop County4.7% Texas5.8%	4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bastrop County4.6% Texas6.2%	4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bastrop County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 22.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 44.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.1%) 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 Bastrop 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 Bastrop 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 Bastrop 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	Bastrop County	Texas	United States
2009	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:09 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:00 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:01 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:00 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:00 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:02 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:04 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:04 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:08 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bastrop County were on the road by 7:08 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:07 AM). Texas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Bastrop County now leave 30 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 Bastrop County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Bastrop County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bastrop County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.7 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.7%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bastrop County is 32.7 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 2.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau