Castro County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Castro County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Castro County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 96 hours, about 4.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 49% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 11.3 minutes.

Castro 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 Castro County would save about 38 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,193 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)
Castro County	11.5 min	23.1 min	96 hrs/yr	$2,982	169
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 11.5 minutes to get to work in Castro County. That's 49% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 86% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Castro County

• Car: 95.4%
• Worked at Home: 3.2% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.7%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Castro County: 4.5 times less than the Texas average (3.2% vs 14.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Castro County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Castro 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
• Public Transportation
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• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	87.7%	9.2%	0.8%	1.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	91.1%	6.1%	1.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	92.1%	4.9%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%
2012	90.6%	5.1%	1.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.9%
2013	91.2%	3.9%	1.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	1.2%
2014	91.8%	4.0%	0.9%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	1.3%
2015	92.2%	3.8%	0.6%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	1.1%
2016	92.4%	4.1%	0.3%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2017	92.9%	4.0%	0.0%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2018	92.6%	3.2%	0.9%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.4%	4.8%	1.2%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.0%	3.4%	1.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.2%	2.8%	1.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.4%	2.1%	1.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.9%	3.9%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	95.4%	3.2%	0.7%	0.7%	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. Overall its share rose from 87.7% in 2009 to 95.4% in 2024, up 7.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 9.2% to 3.2% of workers (down 6.0 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 3.4% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.

Commute Start Times in Castro County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Castro County?

The bars show when commuters in Castro 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 Castro County3.8% Texas5.5%	3.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Castro County12.2% Texas4.4%	12.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Castro County4.8% Texas5.1%	4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Castro County6.0% Texas9.3%	6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Castro County7.2% Texas9.3%	7.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Castro County10.2% Texas15.3%	10.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Castro County20.7% Texas11.8%	20.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Castro County13.4% Texas11.5%	13.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Castro County3.7% Texas4.8%	3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Castro County5.1% Texas6.7%	5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Castro County1.2% Texas3.1%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Castro County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Castro County2.7% Texas5.8%	2.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Castro County9.0% Texas6.2%	9.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Castro County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 20.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 51.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.0%) 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 Castro 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 Castro 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 Castro 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.

• Castro County
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Castro County	Texas	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Castro County were on the road by 7:39 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Texas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Castro County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Castro County has moved 22 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Castro County in the whole series.

How does Castro County's commute time compare?

Metric	Castro County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.5 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.2%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Castro County is 11.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.7% 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