Briscoe County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Briscoe County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Briscoe County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 142 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.7 minutes.

Briscoe 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 Briscoe County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,764 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)
Briscoe County	17.1 min	34.1 min	142 hrs/yr	$4,410	81
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 17.1 minutes to get to work in Briscoe County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Briscoe County

• Car: 86.6%
• Worked at Home: 4.6% unusually low
• Other: 3.5%
• Motorcycle: 2.8% unusually high
• Walked: 2.6%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Briscoe County: 25.5 times more than the Texas average (2.8% vs 0.1%).

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Briscoe County: 3.1 times less than the Texas average (4.6% vs 14.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Briscoe County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Briscoe 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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• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Motorcycle	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	83.3%	13.7%	0.0%	0.0%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.0%	8.9%	0.0%	0.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	90.1%	8.8%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.1%	6.9%	0.1%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	83.9%	11.4%	0.1%	0.0%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	89.5%	6.0%	0.4%	0.0%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	85.2%	7.5%	0.4%	0.0%	6.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2016	86.3%	8.0%	0.7%	0.0%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2017	85.0%	11.0%	0.3%	0.0%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2018	84.2%	12.4%	0.4%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.6%
2019	80.2%	14.8%	0.3%	0.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.6%
2020	86.4%	9.6%	3.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	83.3%	13.0%	3.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	79.8%	12.1%	4.2%	1.6%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.1%	5.4%	4.1%	2.2%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.6%	4.6%	3.5%	2.8%	2.6%	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 2012 at 91.1% and lowest in 2022 at 79.8%. Overall it rose from 83.3% in 2009 to 86.6% in 2024, up 3.3 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Riding a motorcycle gained the most ground in Briscoe County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 2.8% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 13.7% to 4.6% of workers (down 9.1 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 6.2% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 2.6%.

Commute Start Times in Briscoe County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Briscoe County?

The bars show when commuters in Briscoe 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 Briscoe County1.3% Texas5.5%	1.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Briscoe County3.1% Texas4.4%	3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Briscoe County5.2% Texas5.1%	5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Briscoe County5.2% Texas9.3%	5.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Briscoe County11.9% Texas9.3%	11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Briscoe County10.2% Texas15.3%	10.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Briscoe County25.8% Texas11.8%	25.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Briscoe County22.5% Texas11.5%	22.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Briscoe County2.9% Texas4.8%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Briscoe County1.5% Texas6.7%	1.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Briscoe County0.8% Texas3.1%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Briscoe County0.2% Texas1.3%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Briscoe County5.0% Texas5.8%	5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Briscoe County4.2% Texas6.2%	4.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Briscoe County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 25.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 9.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 70.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (11.8%) 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 Briscoe 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 Briscoe 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 Briscoe 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	Briscoe County	Texas	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:44 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:48 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:51 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:45 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Briscoe County were on the road by 7:45 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:38 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Briscoe County now leave 7 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Briscoe County's commute time compare?

Metric	Briscoe County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.1 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.6%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	2.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Briscoe County is 17.1 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 2.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau