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Commuting in Channelview, 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 Channelview: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Channelview spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 253 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 33% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.6 minutes.

Channelview holds about 0.1% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Channelview would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,137 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)
Channelview 30.4 min 60.7 min 253 hrs/yr $7,842 2,610
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.

Channelview Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.4 minutes to get to work in Channelview. That's 35% longer 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 7.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Channelview

  • Car: 90.0%
  • Worked at Home: 7.1%
  • Other: 2.2%
  • Public Transportation: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: 0.1%
  • Taxi: < 0.1%
  • Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Channelview: 124.7 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 1.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Channelview: 22.0 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Channelview: just 0.0%, 79.1 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Channelview, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Channelview 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 Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle Walked
2009 95.0% 0.5% 2.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 1.2%
2010 96.4% 0.9% 1.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 1.0%
2011 96.8% 1.2% 1.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3%
2012 95.8% 1.6% 2.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2013 95.7% 1.4% 1.9% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2014 95.2% 1.5% 2.2% 0.6% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2015 94.8% 1.5% 2.4% 0.6% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2016 95.7% 1.4% 1.7% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2017 95.9% 1.6% 1.3% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2018 96.1% 1.7% 1.3% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.4%
2019 96.1% 1.5% 1.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.9%
2020 94.6% 3.1% 1.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.8%
2021 93.2% 5.2% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.7%
2022 92.7% 5.2% 1.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.6%
2023 91.2% 5.7% 1.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.9%
2024 90.0% 7.1% 2.2% 0.4% 0.1% 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 2011 at 96.8%. Overall it fell from 95.0% in 2009 to 90.0% in 2024, down 5.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Channelview: its share of workers rose from 0.5% in 2009 to 7.1% in 2024, up 6.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Channelview

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Channelview?

The bars show when commuters in Channelview 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
7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
8.4%
5:30-5:59 AM
7.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
18.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
6.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Channelview is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 23.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 41.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.5%) 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 Channelview, 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 Channelview 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 Channelview 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 Channelview Texas United States
2009 7:08 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:06 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2011 6:58 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2012 6:57 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:01 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:01 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 6:53 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:00 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:02 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:01 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:00 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:01 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:04 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:06 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:06 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:05 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Channelview were on the road by 7:05 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:08 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Channelview now leave 33 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 Channelview has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Channelview's commute time compare?

Metric Channelview Texas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 30.4 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 7.1% 14.4% 15.0%
Walked < 0.1% 1.5% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.4% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Channelview is 30.4 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Channelview, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Channelview, TX compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Channelview, TX 37,409 30.4 min #3/3 7.1% #2/3 7:05 AM #2/3
Cloverleaf, TX 22,886 26.4 min 4.5% 7:01 AM
Deer Park, TX 33,524 21.3 min 9.0% 7:10 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Channelview, Texas.

Is commuting expensive in Channelview, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 253 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,842 at a typical national wage. That's 33% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Channelview, Texas?

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