Brewster County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Brewster County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brewster County spend about 17 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 69 hours, about 2.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 63% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 14.5 minutes.

Brewster 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 Brewster County would save about 28 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $860 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)
Brewster County	8.3 min	16.6 min	69 hrs/yr	$2,149	107
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 8.3 minutes to get to work in Brewster County. That's 63% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 95% of counties in Texas

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 7.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brewster County

• Car: 82.3%
• Worked at Home: 7.6%
• Walked: 5.1% unusually high
• Motorcycle: 3.2% unusually high
• Other: 1.1%
• Bicycle: 0.6% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Brewster County: 29.8 times more than the Texas average (3.2% vs 0.1%).

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

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

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

Biking is unusually common in Brewster County: 3.1 times more than the Texas average (0.6% vs 0.2%).

Brewster County stands out for active commuting: 5.7% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.4 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Brewster County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brewster 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	Motorcycle	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	85.9%	3.9%	5.5%	0.2%	2.3%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	82.7%	4.6%	7.0%	0.6%	1.8%	3.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	81.1%	6.0%	7.1%	0.6%	2.2%	2.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	84.3%	5.8%	6.1%	0.6%	1.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	85.1%	6.7%	4.7%	0.5%	1.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	86.4%	5.5%	4.6%	0.2%	1.3%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	86.5%	5.7%	3.9%	0.0%	1.8%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	87.2%	5.3%	4.6%	0.0%	1.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	90.7%	4.8%	2.7%	0.0%	0.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	88.9%	7.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.4%	7.4%	2.5%	0.0%	0.3%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.4%	6.5%	3.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.3%	6.7%	2.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.8%	10.7%	3.4%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.0%	7.4%	4.6%	2.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	82.3%	7.6%	5.1%	3.2%	1.1%	0.6%	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 2017 at 90.7% and lowest in 2011 at 81.1%. Overall it fell from 85.9% in 2009 to 82.3% in 2024, down 3.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Brewster County: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 7.6% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 0.6% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 10.7% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 7.6%.

Commute Start Times in Brewster County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brewster County?

The bars show when commuters in Brewster 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 Brewster County1.6% Texas5.5%	1.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Brewster County2.4% Texas4.4%	2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Brewster County2.5% Texas5.1%	2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Brewster County4.8% Texas9.3%	4.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Brewster County7.7% Texas9.3%	7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Brewster County17.7% Texas15.3%	17.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Brewster County23.2% Texas11.8%	23.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Brewster County12.5% Texas11.5%	12.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Brewster County7.7% Texas4.8%	7.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Brewster County8.4% Texas6.7%	8.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Brewster County1.4% Texas3.1%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Brewster County0.8% Texas1.3%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Brewster County4.6% Texas5.8%	4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Brewster County4.7% Texas6.2%	4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Brewster County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 23.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 6.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 61.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 Brewster 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 Brewster 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 Brewster 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	Brewster County	Texas	United States
2009	8:00 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:59 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:57 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:51 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brewster County were on the road by 7:47 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (8:00 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Brewster County now leave 9 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Brewster County has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Brewster County's commute time compare?

Metric	Brewster County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.3 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	7.6%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	5.1%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Brewster County is 8.3 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% 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