Celina Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Celina: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Celina spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 261 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 37% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 8.5 minutes.

Celina holds about 0.1% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Celina would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,234 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)
Celina	31.3 min	62.6 min	261 hrs/yr	$8,085	1,637
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.

Celina Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.3 minutes to get to work in Celina. That's 40% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 31.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Celina

• Car: 65.0% unusually low
• Worked at Home: 31.7%
• Other: 2.9%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Celina: 1952.2 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 20% less common in Celina than the Texas average (65.0% vs 81.5%).

Walking is unusually rare in Celina: 26.5 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 1.5%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Celina: 485625.9 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Celina: 889244373012106.6 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Celina: just 0.4%, 4.4 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Celina, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Celina 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
• Other
• Bicycle
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Bicycle	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.4%	8.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	87.4%	8.8%	1.6%	0.0%	0.3%	1.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	89.5%	7.1%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	90.9%	6.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	89.8%	8.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	89.5%	8.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.1%	8.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	88.7%	10.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	85.0%	13.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	89.5%	10.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	86.2%	13.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	78.5%	19.3%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	76.8%	21.2%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	73.6%	24.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	66.8%	30.7%	2.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	65.0%	31.7%	2.9%	0.3%	0.1%	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 91.1%. Overall it fell from 89.4% in 2009 to 65.0% in 2024, down 24.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Celina: its share of workers rose from 8.3% in 2009 to 31.7% in 2024, up 23.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 18.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Celina

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Celina?

The bars show when commuters in Celina 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 Celina1.5% Texas5.5%	1.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Celina1.5% Texas4.4%	1.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Celina4.2% Texas5.1%	4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Celina8.5% Texas9.3%	8.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Celina7.8% Texas9.3%	7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Celina19.7% Texas15.3%	19.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Celina23.0% Texas11.8%	23.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Celina10.4% Texas11.5%	10.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Celina4.3% Texas4.8%	4.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Celina7.4% Texas6.7%	7.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Celina1.5% Texas3.1%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Celina2.1% Texas1.3%	2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Celina4.5% Texas5.8%	4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Celina3.7% Texas6.2%	3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Celina is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 23.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 7.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 60.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.2%) 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 Celina, 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 Celina 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 Celina 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.

• Celina
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Celina	Texas	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 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 Celina were on the road by 7:39 AM, 15 minutes later than in 2009 (7:24 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Celina now leave 1 minute 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 Celina has moved 21 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Celina in the whole series.

How does Celina's commute time compare?

Metric	Celina	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.3 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	31.7%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Celina is 31.3 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau