Bee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bee County spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 115 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 9.0 minutes.

Bee 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 Bee County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,421 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)
Bee County	13.8 min	27.5 min	115 hrs/yr	$3,554	422
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 13.8 minutes to get to work in Bee County. That's 39% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 72% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bee County

• Car: 90.7%
• Worked at Home: 5.3%
• Walked: 3.4%
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Bee County: 95.7 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Bee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bee 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
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	88.5%	4.1%	2.4%	2.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	1.7%
2010	90.0%	5.2%	2.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%
2011	91.3%	3.3%	3.3%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.7%
2012	91.7%	3.2%	2.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.9%	0.3%
2013	92.1%	2.8%	2.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.8%
2014	92.7%	2.6%	2.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.6%
2015	94.1%	1.9%	2.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2016	93.2%	2.7%	2.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.8%
2017	92.9%	2.6%	2.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.7%
2018	93.7%	2.6%	2.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	94.0%	2.2%	1.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2020	93.1%	4.0%	1.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	93.8%	3.7%	1.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.0%	4.6%	1.5%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.0%	5.9%	1.3%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.7%	5.3%	3.4%	0.6%	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 peaked in 2015 at 94.1%. Overall it rose from 88.5% in 2009 to 90.7% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bee County: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 5.3% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Bee County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bee County?

The bars show when commuters in Bee 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 Bee County6.3% Texas5.5%	6.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bee County3.8% Texas4.4%	3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bee County9.5% Texas5.1%	9.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bee County9.2% Texas9.3%	9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bee County4.8% Texas9.3%	4.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bee County12.6% Texas15.3%	12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bee County14.9% Texas11.8%	14.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bee County14.1% Texas11.5%	14.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bee County3.3% Texas4.8%	3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bee County10.7% Texas6.7%	10.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bee County1.0% Texas3.1%	1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bee County0.5% Texas1.3%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bee County4.8% Texas5.8%	4.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bee County4.4% Texas6.2%	4.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bee County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 19.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 46.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.5%) 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 Bee 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 Bee 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 Bee 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	Bee County	Texas	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bee County were on the road by 7:38 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Bee County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Bee County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Bee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bee County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.8 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.3%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	3.4%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bee County is 13.8 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau