Borden County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Borden County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Borden County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 96 hours, about 4.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 49% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 11.2 minutes.

Borden 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 Borden County would save about 38 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,193 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)
Borden County	11.5 min	23.1 min	96 hrs/yr	$2,983	245
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 11.5 minutes to get to work in Borden County. That's 48% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 85% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Borden County

• Car: 87.9%
• Worked at Home: 9.7%
• Walked: 2.1%
• Other: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Borden County, versus 0.9% in Texas.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Borden County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Borden 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	80.4%	13.7%	4.8%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	79.0%	15.8%	4.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	83.9%	13.0%	2.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	83.2%	15.4%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	83.6%	15.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	88.1%	10.1%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	88.9%	9.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	84.7%	6.0%	9.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	85.4%	3.6%	11.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	85.1%	4.0%	10.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	80.9%	4.3%	12.6%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	67.9%	8.9%	18.8%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	83.5%	12.6%	0.0%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.4%	6.7%	3.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.6%	4.5%	2.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.9%	9.7%	2.1%	0.3%	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 was highest in 2023 at 92.6% and lowest in 2020 at 67.9%. Overall it rose from 80.4% in 2009 to 87.9% in 2024, up 7.5 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 13.7% to 9.7% of workers (down 4.0 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 18.8% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 2.1%.

Commute Start Times in Borden County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Borden County?

The bars show when commuters in Borden 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 Borden County0.4% Texas5.5%	0.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Borden County1.1% Texas4.4%	1.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Borden County0.0% Texas5.1%	0.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Borden County8.0% Texas9.3%	8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Borden County8.8% Texas9.3%	8.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Borden County33.0% Texas15.3%	33.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Borden County17.2% Texas11.8%	17.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Borden County12.6% Texas11.5%	12.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Borden County5.7% Texas4.8%	5.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Borden County0.8% Texas6.7%	0.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Borden County0.0% Texas3.1%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Borden County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Borden County12.3% Texas5.8%	12.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Borden County0.0% Texas6.2%	0.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Borden County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 33.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 1.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 71.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.0%) 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 Borden 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 Borden 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 Borden 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	Borden County	Texas	United States
2009	7:09 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Borden County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 20 minutes later than in 2009 (7:09 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Borden County now leave 9 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 Borden County has moved 13 minutes earlier.

How does Borden County's commute time compare?

Metric	Borden County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.5 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.7%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Borden County is 11.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 2.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau