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Burleson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Burleson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Burleson County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 251 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.3 minutes.

Burleson County holds about 0.1% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Burleson County would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,112 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)
Burleson County 30.1 min 60.2 min 251 hrs/yr $7,781 1,506
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.

Commute Time Map: Texas Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Texas
  1. Loving County (3.2 min)
  2. King County (5.8 min)
  3. Terrell County (6.5 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Texas
  1. Bandera County (38.6 min)
  2. San Jacinto County (35.9 min)
  3. Liberty County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Burleson County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 30.1 minutes to get to work in Burleson County. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 91% 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 14.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Burleson County

  • Car: 84.4%
  • Worked at Home: 14.0%
  • Other: 0.7%
  • Walked: 0.7%
  • Motorcycle: 0.2%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Burleson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Burleson 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 Other Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 92.3% 5.4% 1.3% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 94.5% 4.0% 0.6% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 95.0% 3.0% 0.7% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 95.2% 2.7% 0.7% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 96.2% 2.4% 0.6% 0.5% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 95.7% 2.8% 1.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 95.9% 2.6% 0.8% 0.3% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 96.0% 2.4% 1.0% 0.1% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 95.1% 2.6% 1.1% 0.5% 0.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 94.5% 3.5% 1.0% 0.6% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 91.8% 5.5% 0.8% 1.5% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 89.8% 7.8% 0.7% 1.3% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 85.8% 11.5% 0.5% 1.6% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 86.0% 11.9% 0.1% 1.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 82.9% 14.3% 0.1% 2.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 84.4% 14.0% 0.7% 0.7% 0.2% 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 2013 at 96.2% and lowest in 2023 at 82.9%. Overall it fell from 92.3% in 2009 to 84.4% in 2024, down 7.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Burleson County: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 14.0% in 2024, up 8.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Burleson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Burleson County?

The bars show when commuters in Burleson 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
6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
12.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
16.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
17.1%
7:30-7:59 AM
16.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
1.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.0%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Burleson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 16.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 58.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 10 commuters (10.3%) 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 Burleson 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 Burleson 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 Burleson 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 Burleson County Texas United States
2009 7:13 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:11 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:13 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:13 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:14 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:14 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:10 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:08 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:09 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:01 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:03 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:06 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:08 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:07 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:10 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:08 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Burleson County were on the road by 7:08 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:13 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Burleson County now leave 29 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 Burleson County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Burleson County's commute time compare?

Metric Burleson County Texas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 30.1 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 14.0% 14.4% 15.0%
Walked 0.7% 1.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Burleson County is 30.1 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Burleson County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Burleson County, TX is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 18,857 residents against a local median of 25,558. The measure that sets Burleson County, TX apart most is work from home: 14.0%, 43% above the local median of 9.8%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 30.1 min against a local median of 22.0 min, 37% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 37% above the local median it puts Burleson County, TX at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 6.9% on work from home, so Burleson County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Burleson County, TX has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Burleson County, TX 18,857 30.1 min #6/6 14.0% #1/6 7:08 AM #1/6
Washington County, TX 36,647 16.6 min 8.3% 7:34 AM
Brazos County, TX 242,290 16.5 min 10.7% 7:50 AM
Lee County, TX 17,971 23.7 min 12.6% 7:11 AM
Milam County, TX 25,558 25.4 min 9.8% 7:15 AM
Robertson County, TX 17,166 22.0 min 5.8% 7:16 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Burleson County, Texas.

Is commuting expensive in Burleson County, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 251 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,781 at a typical national wage. That's 32% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Burleson County, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Burleson County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Burleson County, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).