Beaumont Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Beaumont, 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 Beaumont: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Beaumont spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.6 minutes.

Beaumont holds about 0.4% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Beaumont would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,878 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)
Beaumont	18.2 min	36.3 min	151 hrs/yr	$4,695	2,149
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.

Beaumont Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.2 minutes to get to work in Beaumont. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Beaumont

Working from home is unusually rare in Beaumont: 3.2 times less than the Texas average (4.5% vs 14.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Beaumont, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Beaumont 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	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	93.4%	1.7%	2.0%	1.0%	1.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2010	93.3%	1.9%	2.2%	0.7%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	93.0%	2.1%	2.2%	0.7%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	93.4%	2.0%	2.1%	0.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	93.9%	1.9%	1.9%	0.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	94.2%	1.8%	1.9%	0.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	95.2%	1.4%	1.6%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	95.7%	1.4%	1.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	96.5%	1.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	96.1%	1.6%	0.9%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	95.7%	2.0%	1.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	95.0%	2.3%	1.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	93.8%	3.0%	1.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	93.1%	3.6%	1.5%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	92.5%	4.1%	1.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	91.5%	4.5%	1.6%	1.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2017 at 96.5%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 91.5% in 2024, down 1.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Beaumont: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 4.5% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Beaumont

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Beaumont?

The bars show when commuters in Beaumont 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		7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Beaumont is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 18.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 47.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.1%) 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 Beaumont, 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 Beaumont 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 Beaumont 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	Beaumont	Texas	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Beaumont were on the road by 7:41 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:39 AM). Texas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Beaumont now leave 4 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 Beaumont has moved 8 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Beaumont in the whole series.

How does Beaumont's commute time compare?

Metric	Beaumont	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.5%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Beaumont is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.3% 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

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Beaumont, Texas.

Is living in Beaumont, Texas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 151 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,695 at a typical national wage. That's 20% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Beaumont, Texas?

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