Callahan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Callahan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Callahan County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way.

Callahan 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 Callahan County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,344 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)
Callahan County	22.7 min	45.4 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,860	452
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 22.7 minutes to get to work in Callahan County. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 74% 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 9.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Callahan County

• Car: 88.0%
• Worked at Home: 9.1%
• Other: 2.3%
• Walked: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Callahan County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

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

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Callahan County: just 0.5%, 3.2 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Callahan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Callahan 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.0%	3.4%	1.7%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.4%
2010	91.4%	3.8%	2.1%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2011	91.7%	3.7%	1.0%	2.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	93.9%	3.1%	0.2%	2.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	94.0%	3.1%	0.1%	2.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	93.4%	3.4%	0.2%	2.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.7%	2.4%	0.2%	2.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.4%	4.1%	0.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.5%	5.4%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.8%	5.0%	1.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.8%	5.3%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	91.5%	6.5%	1.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	90.0%	6.5%	2.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	88.2%	8.3%	2.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	88.4%	8.4%	2.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	88.0%	9.1%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	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 peaked in 2015 at 94.7%. Overall it fell from 92.0% in 2009 to 88.0% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Callahan County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 9.1% in 2024, up 5.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.5% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Callahan County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Callahan County?

The bars show when commuters in Callahan 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 Callahan County5.2% Texas5.5%	5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Callahan County7.6% Texas4.4%	7.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Callahan County2.7% Texas5.1%	2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Callahan County8.7% Texas9.3%	8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Callahan County9.3% Texas9.3%	9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Callahan County15.9% Texas15.3%	15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Callahan County18.8% Texas11.8%	18.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Callahan County9.9% Texas11.5%	9.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Callahan County4.0% Texas4.8%	4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Callahan County5.9% Texas6.7%	5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Callahan County2.1% Texas3.1%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Callahan County0.9% Texas1.3%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Callahan County5.8% Texas5.8%	5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Callahan County3.2% Texas6.2%	3.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Callahan County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 15.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 53.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.9%) 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 Callahan 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 Callahan 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 Callahan 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.

• Callahan County
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Callahan County	Texas	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Callahan County were on the road by 7:31 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:25 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Callahan County now leave 7 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 Callahan County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Callahan County's commute time compare?

Metric	Callahan County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.7 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	9.1%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Callahan County is about the same as in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau