Cedar Hill Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Cedar Hill, 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 Cedar Hill: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cedar Hill spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 255 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.8 minutes.

Cedar Hill 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 Cedar Hill would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,160 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)
Cedar Hill	30.6 min	61.2 min	255 hrs/yr	$7,900	2,704
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.

Cedar Hill Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.6 minutes to get to work in Cedar Hill. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cedar Hill

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Cedar Hill: 6.1 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Cedar Hill: 75.1 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Cedar Hill, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cedar Hill 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.8%	3.1%	1.5%	0.4%	1.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	92.9%	3.4%	1.1%	0.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	93.1%	3.4%	1.4%	0.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	92.8%	3.6%	1.2%	1.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	94.0%	2.8%	0.8%	1.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	94.0%	2.9%	0.6%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	94.7%	2.3%	0.7%	1.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2016	93.9%	3.0%	0.8%	1.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	93.6%	3.7%	0.9%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	93.3%	4.0%	1.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.1%	4.4%	0.8%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.8%	7.8%	0.7%	0.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.4%	10.6%	0.7%	0.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.2%	13.4%	0.8%	0.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	82.6%	15.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	81.2%	16.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	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 92.8% in 2009 to 81.2% in 2024, down 11.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cedar Hill: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 16.9% in 2024, up 13.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.9% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Cedar Hill

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cedar Hill?

The bars show when commuters in Cedar Hill 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		5.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		5.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cedar Hill is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 19.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 41.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.3%) 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 Cedar Hill, 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 Cedar Hill 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 Cedar Hill 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	Cedar Hill	Texas	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cedar Hill were on the road by 7:22 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Texas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Cedar Hill 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 Cedar Hill has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Cedar Hill's commute time compare?

Metric	Cedar Hill	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.6 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.9%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cedar Hill is 30.6 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Cedar Hill, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Cedar Hill, TX is the 2nd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 48,306 residents against a local median of 39,879. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Cedar Hill, TX an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 7% above the local median at 16.9% against 15.7%. Cedar Hill, TX has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Cedar Hill, TX	48,306	30.6 min #3/4	16.9% #1/4	7:22 AM #2/4
Duncanville, TX	39,879	25.4 min	11.9%	7:36 AM
DeSoto, TX	59,125	30.3 min	16.9%	7:27 AM
Midlothian, TX	34,352	31.7 min	15.7%	7:16 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cedar Hill, Texas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 255 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,900 at a typical national wage. That's 34% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Cedar Hill, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Cedar Hill, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.