Carson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Carson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Carson County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Carson 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 Carson County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,094 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)
Carson County	20.3 min	40.5 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,236	425
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

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On average, it takes 20.3 minutes to get to work in Carson County. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Carson County

• Car: 89.1%
• Worked at Home: 8.2%
• Walked: 2.4%
• Other: 0.3%
• 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 Carson County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Carson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Carson 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.2%	2.1%	2.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.4%
2010	92.1%	3.3%	2.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.3%
2011	91.8%	4.6%	1.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%
2012	92.6%	3.7%	2.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.2%
2013	94.3%	3.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2014	94.0%	4.0%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.0%	3.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.2%	3.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.4%	3.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.2%	4.9%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.9%	5.6%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.5%	6.1%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.6%	6.7%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.7%	8.2%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.5%	7.6%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.1%	8.2%	2.4%	0.3%	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 was highest in 2017 at 96.4% and lowest in 2022 at 88.7%. Overall it fell from 93.2% in 2009 to 89.1% in 2024, down 4.1 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Carson County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2024, up 6.1 percentage points.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Carson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Carson County?

The bars show when commuters in Carson 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 Carson County5.0% Texas5.5%	5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Carson County4.4% Texas4.4%	4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Carson County6.2% Texas5.1%	6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Carson County14.3% Texas9.3%	14.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Carson County7.1% Texas9.3%	7.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Carson County17.6% Texas15.3%	17.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Carson County12.0% Texas11.8%	12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Carson County9.1% Texas11.5%	9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Carson County2.1% Texas4.8%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Carson County3.0% Texas6.7%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Carson County6.2% Texas3.1%	6.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Carson County0.2% Texas1.3%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Carson County3.2% Texas5.8%	3.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Carson County9.5% Texas6.2%	9.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Carson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 15.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 45.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.1%) 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 Carson 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 Carson 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 Carson 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.

• Carson County
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Carson County	Texas	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Carson County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:15 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Carson County now leave 16 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 Carson County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Carson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Carson County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.3 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.2%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Carson County is 20.3 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 2.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau