Commuting in Bexar County, 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 Bexar County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Bexar County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.
Bexar County holds about 6.9% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 6.9% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Bexar County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,376 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)
Bexar County
23.0 min
46.0 min
192 hrs/yr
$5,940
2,832
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.
On average, it takes
23.0
minutes to get to work in
Bexar County.
That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Slower than 75% of counties in Texas
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.6% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Bexar County
Car:
80.1%
Worked at Home:
14.6%
Walked:
1.8%
Public Transportation:
1.6%
Other:
1.2%
Taxi:
0.3%
Bicycle:
0.2%
Motorcycle:
0.2%
Commute Mode Trends in Bexar County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Bexar 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.
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
Public Transportation
Other
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
90.0%
3.1%
2.2%
2.9%
1.3%
0.1%
0.2%
0.1%
2010
90.3%
3.1%
2.2%
2.8%
1.3%
0.1%
0.2%
0.1%
2011
90.1%
3.5%
2.1%
2.7%
1.2%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
2012
90.1%
3.7%
2.0%
2.8%
1.0%
0.1%
0.3%
0.2%
2013
90.1%
3.7%
2.0%
2.8%
0.9%
0.0%
0.3%
0.2%
2014
90.2%
3.8%
1.9%
2.7%
0.9%
0.0%
0.2%
0.2%
2015
90.2%
4.0%
1.8%
2.8%
0.7%
0.0%
0.2%
0.2%
2016
90.1%
4.0%
1.8%
2.8%
0.8%
0.0%
0.2%
0.2%
2017
90.1%
4.2%
1.7%
2.6%
0.9%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
2018
90.1%
4.2%
1.8%
2.4%
1.0%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
2019
90.0%
4.3%
1.8%
2.4%
1.1%
0.1%
0.1%
0.2%
2020
88.0%
6.3%
1.9%
2.2%
1.2%
0.2%
0.1%
0.2%
2021
86.1%
8.8%
1.7%
1.7%
1.2%
0.2%
0.1%
0.2%
2022
84.0%
10.7%
1.9%
1.7%
1.2%
0.2%
0.1%
0.2%
2023
82.1%
12.8%
1.7%
1.6%
1.2%
0.2%
0.1%
0.2%
2024
80.1%
14.6%
1.8%
1.6%
1.2%
0.3%
0.2%
0.2%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 90.3%. Overall it fell from 90.0% in 2009 to 80.1% in 2024, down 9.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Bexar County: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 14.6% in 2024, up 11.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 1.6% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).
Commute Start Times in Bexar County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bexar County?
The bars show when commuters in Bexar 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 AMBexar County5.3%Texas5.5%
5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMBexar County3.9%Texas4.4%
3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMBexar County5.2%Texas5.1%
5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMBexar County9.4%Texas9.3%
9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMBexar County9.9%Texas9.3%
9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMBexar County14.8%Texas15.3%
14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMBexar County10.7%Texas11.8%
10.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMBexar County10.9%Texas11.5%
10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMBexar County4.6%Texas4.8%
4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMBexar County7.0%Texas6.7%
7.0%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMBexar County3.3%Texas3.1%
3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMBexar County1.7%Texas1.3%
1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMBexar County6.3%Texas5.8%
6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMBexar County7.0%Texas6.2%
7.0%
Bexar CountyTexasSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Bexar County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 14.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 46.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.4%) 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 Bexar 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 Bexar 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 Bexar 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.
Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.Show typical departure times by year
Year
Bexar 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
7:30 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:29 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:30 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:30 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:29 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:29 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:29 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:33 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:32 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:34 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:35 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:35 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Bexar County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:30 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Bexar County now leave 3 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 Bexar County has moved 5 minutes later.
How does Bexar County's commute time compare?
Metric
Bexar County
Texas
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
23.0 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
08:00 AM – 08:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
14.6%
14.4%
15.0%
Walked
1.8%
1.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
1.6%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Bexar County is about the same as in Texas.
1.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.
Bexar County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Bexar County, TX is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 2,066,173 residents against a local median of 52,781. Bexar County, TX sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.
The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 13% below the local median at 23.0 min against 26.5 min. Bexar County, TX has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Bexar County, Texas.
Is commuting expensive in Bexar County, Texas?
Commuters here spend an estimated 192 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,940 at a typical national wage. That's 1% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Bexar County, Texas?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Bexar County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Which counties in Texas have the fastest and slowest commutes?
Among counties in Texas, the shortest average commutes are in Loving County (3.3 min), King County (5.8 min), Terrell County (6.5 min). The longest are in Bandera County (38.6 min), San Jacinto County (35.9 min), Liberty County (33.6 min).