Childress County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Childress County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Childress County spend about 21 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 86 hours, about 3.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 55% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 12.4 minutes.

Childress 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 Childress County would save about 35 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,070 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)
Childress County	10.4 min	20.7 min	86 hrs/yr	$2,674	178
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 10.4 minutes to get to work in Childress County. That's 54% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 90% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 1.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Childress County

• Car: 97.3%
• Worked at Home: 1.1% unusually low
• Walked: 1.1%
• Other: 0.5%
• 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 Childress County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Childress County: 13.0 times less than the Texas average (1.1% vs 14.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Childress County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Childress 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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• Walked
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• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.1%	3.8%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	1.1%
2010	88.8%	2.3%	4.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	2.2%
2011	92.2%	0.7%	4.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	93.0%	0.7%	5.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	94.9%	0.8%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	94.6%	1.5%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	98.1%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	98.1%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.3%	0.9%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.3%	3.9%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	92.9%	3.7%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2020	91.5%	4.7%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2021	92.1%	4.4%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2022	92.4%	5.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2023	97.4%	0.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	97.3%	1.1%	1.1%	0.5%	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 2015 at 98.1% and lowest in 2010 at 88.8%. Overall it rose from 92.1% in 2009 to 97.3% in 2024, up 5.2 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.8% to 1.1% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 5.7% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 1.1%.

Commute Start Times in Childress County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Childress County?

The bars show when commuters in Childress 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 Childress County3.3% Texas5.5%	3.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Childress County3.3% Texas4.4%	3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Childress County1.8% Texas5.1%	1.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Childress County6.8% Texas9.3%	6.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Childress County21.9% Texas9.3%	21.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Childress County19.9% Texas15.3%	19.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Childress County10.8% Texas11.8%	10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Childress County8.1% Texas11.5%	8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Childress County0.8% Texas4.8%	0.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Childress County7.1% Texas6.7%	7.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Childress County2.2% Texas3.1%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Childress County1.2% Texas1.3%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Childress County4.9% Texas5.8%	4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Childress County7.9% Texas6.2%	7.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Childress County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 21.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 8.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 60.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.3%) 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 Childress 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 Childress 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 Childress 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.

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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Childress County	Texas	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:43 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:58 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:54 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Childress County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 22 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Childress County now leave 18 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 Childress County has moved 34 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Childress County in the whole series.

How does Childress County's commute time compare?

Metric	Childress County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.4 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	1.1%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Childress County is 10.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau