Bryan Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bryan, 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 Bryan: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bryan spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.

Bryan holds about 0.3% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bryan would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,695 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)
Bryan	16.4 min	32.8 min	137 hrs/yr	$4,238	2,409
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.

Bryan Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.4 minutes to get to work in Bryan. That's 27% 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 7.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bryan

Commute Mode Trends in Bryan, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bryan 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	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	91.6%	2.0%	1.7%	2.1%	1.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	90.4%	2.2%	2.1%	2.2%	1.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	90.3%	2.2%	2.7%	1.8%	1.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	89.4%	2.7%	3.3%	1.4%	1.5%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	89.3%	2.6%	3.1%	1.2%	1.9%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	88.8%	2.7%	3.4%	0.8%	2.1%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	89.7%	2.5%	2.8%	0.9%	2.0%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	90.2%	2.6%	2.4%	0.7%	2.2%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	90.7%	2.5%	2.2%	0.8%	2.0%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	91.7%	2.1%	2.2%	0.6%	1.6%	1.6%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	92.7%	2.3%	1.5%	0.6%	1.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	92.7%	2.6%	1.7%	0.9%	0.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	91.5%	4.3%	1.4%	1.2%	0.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	91.4%	4.7%	1.4%	1.0%	0.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	90.4%	5.7%	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%
2024	88.7%	7.3%	1.1%	1.1%	1.0%	0.6%	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 92.7%. Overall it fell from 91.6% in 2009 to 88.7% in 2024, down 2.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bryan: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 7.3% in 2024, up 5.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 1.1% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Biking peaked at 2.0% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 0.6%.

Commute Start Times in Bryan

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bryan?

The bars show when commuters in Bryan 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		4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		17.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bryan is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 10.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 55.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.9%) 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 Bryan, 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 Bryan 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 Bryan 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	Bryan	Texas	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 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	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:42 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bryan were on the road by 7:41 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Texas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Bryan now leave 3 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 Bryan has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Bryan's commute time compare?

Metric	Bryan	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.4 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	7.3%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bryan is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

1.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bryan, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Bryan, TX compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Bryan, TX	80,738	16.4 min #2/2	7.3% #2/2	7:41 AM #1/2
College Station, TX	114,056	15.9 min	11.8%	8:02 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bryan, Texas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Bryan, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 137 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,238 at a typical national wage. That's 28% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Bryan, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Bryan, 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.