Burnet County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Burnet 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 Burnet County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Burnet County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 196 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Burnet County holds about 0.2% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Burnet County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,429 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)
Burnet County	23.5 min	47.0 min	196 hrs/yr	$6,073	1,384
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

Loving County (3.2 min)
King County (5.8 min)
Terrell County (6.5 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Texas

Bandera County (38.6 min)
San Jacinto County (35.9 min)
Liberty County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Burnet County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.5 minutes to get to work in Burnet County. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 77% 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 13.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Burnet County

Public transit is unusually rare in Burnet County: 4.5 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Burnet County: 5.1 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Burnet County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Burnet 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	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	89.9%	7.8%	1.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	89.3%	8.7%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	87.9%	9.9%	1.3%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	87.7%	10.5%	0.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	88.5%	9.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.3%	7.7%	0.6%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.5%	6.3%	0.7%	2.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	89.8%	6.8%	0.7%	1.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	89.0%	6.6%	0.9%	2.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%
2018	88.7%	7.0%	0.9%	2.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	88.2%	8.2%	1.1%	1.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2020	88.2%	9.5%	1.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.4%	10.5%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.0%	11.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	85.6%	12.1%	1.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	83.6%	13.4%	1.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 90.5%. Overall it fell from 89.9% in 2009 to 83.6% in 2024, down 6.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Burnet County: its share of workers rose from 7.8% in 2009 to 13.4% in 2024, up 5.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.7% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 0.6%.

Commute Start Times in Burnet County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Burnet County?

The bars show when commuters in Burnet 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		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Burnet County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 44.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.5%) 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 Burnet 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 Burnet 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 Burnet 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	Burnet County	Texas	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Burnet County were on the road by 7:28 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Texas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Burnet County now leave 10 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 Burnet County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Burnet County's commute time compare?

Metric	Burnet County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.5 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	13.4%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Burnet County is 23.5 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Burnet County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Burnet County, TX is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 52,652 residents against a local median of 22,709. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest counties, which makes Burnet County, TX an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 15% below the local median at 13.4% against 15.7%. Burnet County, TX has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Burnet County, TX	52,652	23.5 min #3/6	13.4% #5/6	7:28 AM #2/6
Lampasas County, TX	22,709	25.3 min	9.0%	7:23 AM
Llano County, TX	22,424	22.5 min	15.0%	7:35 AM
Blanco County, TX	12,446	27.3 min	15.7%	7:32 AM
Williamson County, TX	671,548	25.7 min	25.4%	7:43 AM
Travis County, TX	1,315,315	22.7 min	30.3%	7:58 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Burnet County, Texas.

Is commuting expensive in Burnet County, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 196 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,073 at a typical national wage. That's 3% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Burnet 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.

Do people use public transit in Burnet County, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).