Carrollton Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Carrollton, 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 Carrollton: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Carrollton spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way.

Carrollton holds about 0.5% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Carrollton would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,366 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)
Carrollton	22.9 min	45.8 min	191 hrs/yr	$5,916	3,823
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.

Carrollton Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.9 minutes to get to work in Carrollton. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 21.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Carrollton

Commute Mode Trends in Carrollton, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Carrollton 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	91.8%	4.1%	1.0%	1.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	92.1%	4.6%	0.8%	1.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2011	92.0%	4.6%	0.6%	1.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2012	91.2%	5.3%	0.6%	1.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2013	91.6%	5.3%	0.4%	0.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2014	91.3%	5.2%	0.4%	1.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2015	91.6%	5.1%	0.4%	1.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	91.3%	5.2%	0.4%	1.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	91.1%	5.3%	0.4%	1.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	90.4%	5.6%	0.6%	1.2%	1.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	90.8%	5.7%	0.5%	1.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	85.9%	10.7%	0.7%	0.8%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	82.0%	14.7%	0.9%	0.8%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	79.0%	17.6%	1.0%	0.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	77.3%	19.4%	1.1%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	75.1%	21.6%	1.2%	1.0%	0.8%	0.2%	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 2010 at 92.1%. Overall it fell from 91.8% in 2009 to 75.1% in 2024, down 16.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Carrollton: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 21.6% in 2024, up 17.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 15.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 1.0% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Carrollton

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Carrollton?

The bars show when commuters in Carrollton 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		2.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Carrollton is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 9.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 52.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.1%) 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 Carrollton, 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 Carrollton 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 Carrollton 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	Carrollton	Texas	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:44 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:48 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:50 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:50 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:50 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Carrollton were on the road by 7:50 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:40 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Carrollton now leave 12 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 Carrollton has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Carrollton's commute time compare?

Metric	Carrollton	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.9 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	21.6%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.9%	3.2%

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

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Carrollton, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Carrollton, TX is the largest of the 5 cities compared here, 139,254 residents against a local median of 34,338. Carrollton, TX sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these cities turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 3% above the local median at 22.9 min against 22.3 min. Carrollton, TX has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Carrollton, TX	139,254	22.9 min #5/5	21.6% #3/5	7:49 AM #2/5
Farmers Branch, TX	29,458	21.0 min	18.0%	7:57 AM
Addison, TX	20,794	22.0 min	24.0%	8:03 AM
Coppell, TX	39,219	22.6 min	31.1%	7:56 AM
Lewisville, TX	128,135	22.5 min	19.1%	7:46 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Carrollton, Texas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 191 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,916 at a typical national wage.

When is rush hour worst in Carrollton, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Carrollton, 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.

How much money can remote workers save in Carrollton, Texas?

About 21.6% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Carrollton would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,366 at the same national wage assumption used above.