Blanco County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Blanco County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Blanco County spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 228 hours, about 9.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.5 minutes.

Blanco County holds about 0.0% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Blanco County would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,825 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)
Blanco County	27.3 min	54.7 min	228 hrs/yr	$7,062	1,389
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 27.3 minutes to get to work in Blanco County. That's 22% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 85% 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 15.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Blanco County

• Car: 78.1%
• Worked at Home: 15.7%
• Walked: 5.1% unusually high
• Other: 0.6%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually common in Blanco County: 3.5 times more than the Texas average (5.1% vs 1.5%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Blanco County: 5.4 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

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

Blanco County stands out for active commuting: 5.4% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.2 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Blanco County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Blanco 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.7%	8.2%	1.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	87.6%	10.2%	1.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	88.3%	8.9%	1.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	88.3%	8.2%	2.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	88.4%	7.9%	1.8%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	87.8%	8.0%	2.5%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	90.4%	5.5%	3.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	88.9%	5.6%	3.8%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	86.5%	9.2%	3.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	87.0%	9.5%	2.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	86.8%	10.5%	1.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	87.2%	11.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	86.9%	11.1%	0.4%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	84.1%	13.2%	0.8%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	79.9%	15.4%	3.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	78.1%	15.7%	5.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	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 90.4%. Overall it fell from 89.7% in 2009 to 78.1% in 2024, down 11.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Blanco County: its share of workers rose from 8.2% in 2009 to 15.7% in 2024, up 7.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Blanco County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Blanco County?

The bars show when commuters in Blanco 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 Blanco County5.1% Texas5.5%	5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Blanco County3.5% Texas4.4%	3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Blanco County2.5% Texas5.1%	2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Blanco County10.5% Texas9.3%	10.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Blanco County12.3% Texas9.3%	12.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Blanco County15.2% Texas15.3%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Blanco County11.8% Texas11.8%	11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Blanco County12.9% Texas11.5%	12.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Blanco County4.8% Texas4.8%	4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Blanco County8.3% Texas6.7%	8.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Blanco County3.4% Texas3.1%	3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Blanco County1.0% Texas1.3%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Blanco County3.3% Texas5.8%	3.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Blanco County5.3% Texas6.2%	5.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Blanco County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 11.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 52.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.3%) 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 Blanco 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 Blanco 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 Blanco 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	Blanco County	Texas	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:38 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Blanco County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:27 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Blanco County now leave 6 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 Blanco County has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Blanco County's commute time compare?

Metric	Blanco County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.3 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	15.7%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	5.1%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Blanco County is 27.3 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 5.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau