Commuting in Brazos 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 Brazos County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Brazos County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 138 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.3 minutes.
Brazos County holds about 0.8% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Brazos County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,709 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)
Brazos County
16.5 min
33.1 min
138 hrs/yr
$4,272
1,846
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
16.5
minutes to get to work in
Brazos County.
That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.7% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Brazos County
Car:
82.6%
Worked at Home:
10.7%
Walked:
2.5%
Public Transportation:
1.7%
Bicycle:
1.3%unusually high
Other:
0.9%
Motorcycle:
0.2%
Taxi:
< 0.1%
Biking is unusually common in Brazos County: 6.2 times more than the Texas average (1.3% vs 0.2%).
Commute Mode Trends in Brazos County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Brazos 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
Bicycle
Other
Motorcycle
Taxi
2009
89.6%
2.8%
2.3%
2.2%
1.6%
1.0%
0.5%
0.0%
2010
88.8%
2.8%
2.3%
2.8%
1.7%
1.1%
0.5%
0.0%
2011
88.8%
2.8%
3.1%
2.5%
1.5%
0.9%
0.4%
0.0%
2012
88.4%
2.7%
3.4%
2.7%
1.7%
0.8%
0.4%
0.0%
2013
88.1%
2.9%
3.5%
2.9%
1.5%
0.7%
0.3%
0.0%
2014
88.1%
2.9%
3.4%
2.9%
1.7%
0.7%
0.3%
0.0%
2015
88.8%
2.9%
3.1%
2.7%
1.6%
0.7%
0.2%
0.0%
2016
89.1%
3.1%
2.5%
2.7%
1.7%
0.7%
0.2%
0.0%
2017
89.5%
3.3%
2.1%
2.4%
1.6%
0.7%
0.2%
0.0%
2018
90.4%
3.0%
1.8%
2.1%
1.8%
0.6%
0.3%
0.0%
2019
90.7%
3.4%
1.6%
1.9%
1.4%
0.7%
0.2%
0.1%
2020
88.5%
5.4%
2.0%
1.5%
1.5%
0.8%
0.2%
0.0%
2021
87.5%
7.1%
1.9%
1.2%
1.3%
0.9%
0.2%
0.0%
2022
85.4%
8.6%
2.4%
1.3%
1.2%
0.9%
0.2%
0.0%
2023
84.1%
9.6%
2.4%
1.5%
1.2%
0.8%
0.3%
0.0%
2024
82.6%
10.7%
2.5%
1.7%
1.3%
0.9%
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 2019 at 90.7%. Overall it fell from 89.6% in 2009 to 82.6% in 2024, down 7.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Brazos County: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 10.7% in 2024, up 7.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 1.7% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).
Walking peaked at 3.5% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 2.5%.
Commute Start Times in Brazos County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brazos County?
The bars show when commuters in Brazos 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 AMBrazos County3.5%Texas5.5%
3.5%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMBrazos County2.6%Texas4.4%
2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMBrazos County3.1%Texas5.1%
3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMBrazos County5.2%Texas9.3%
5.2%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMBrazos County9.2%Texas9.3%
9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMBrazos County13.8%Texas15.3%
13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMBrazos County18.5%Texas11.8%
18.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMBrazos County11.8%Texas11.5%
11.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMBrazos County5.3%Texas4.8%
5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMBrazos County7.3%Texas6.7%
7.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMBrazos County3.9%Texas3.1%
3.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMBrazos County1.9%Texas1.3%
1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMBrazos County7.1%Texas5.8%
7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMBrazos County6.8%Texas6.2%
6.8%
Brazos CountyTexasSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Brazos County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 9.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 53.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.0%) 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 Brazos 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 Brazos 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 Brazos 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
Brazos County
Texas
United States
2009
7:49 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:49 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:50 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:50 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:51 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:53 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:52 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:51 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:52 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:51 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:51 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:51 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:51 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:53 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:53 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:51 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Brazos County were on the road by 7:51 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:49 AM). Texas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Brazos County now leave 13 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).
How does Brazos County's commute time compare?
Metric
Brazos County
Texas
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
16.5 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
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
10.7%
14.4%
15.0%
Walked
2.5%
1.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
1.7%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Brazos County is 16.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.
1.7% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Texas. 2.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.
Brazos County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Brazos County, TX is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 242,290 residents against a local median of 18,857. Brazos County, TX's work from home, at 10.7%, runs 29% above the 8.3% typical of the counties around it.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 16.5 min against a local median of 22.0 min, 25% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 25% below the local median it puts Brazos County, TX at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 8.2% on work from home, so Brazos County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Brazos County, TX has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Brazos County, Texas.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Brazos County, Texas?
Commuters here spend an estimated 138 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,272 at a typical national wage. That's 27% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Brazos County, Texas?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Brazos County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.
How do commute times compare across counties in Texas?
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).