Collin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Collin County, 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 Collin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Collin County spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 218 hours, about 9.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.3 minutes.

Collin County holds about 3.9% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 4.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Collin County would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,699 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)
Collin County	26.1 min	52.2 min	218 hrs/yr	$6,749	3,106
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.

Commute Time Map: Texas Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Texas

Loving County (3.2 min)
King County (5.8 min)
Terrell County (6.5 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Texas

Bandera County (38.6 min)
San Jacinto County (35.9 min)
Liberty County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Collin County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 26.1 minutes to get to work in Collin County. That's 17% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 83% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 27.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Collin County

Commute Mode Trends in Collin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Collin 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.

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	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	89.4%	6.5%	1.5%	0.8%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	89.2%	6.8%	1.5%	0.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	88.9%	7.1%	1.6%	0.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	88.8%	7.5%	1.4%	0.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	88.6%	7.9%	1.3%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	88.8%	7.7%	1.2%	0.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	88.8%	7.8%	1.1%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	88.6%	8.1%	0.9%	0.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	88.3%	8.5%	1.0%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	88.1%	8.6%	1.0%	0.8%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	87.5%	9.2%	0.9%	0.9%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	83.5%	12.9%	1.2%	1.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	78.8%	17.7%	1.3%	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	74.9%	21.6%	1.2%	1.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	71.8%	24.9%	1.2%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	69.2%	27.5%	1.3%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 89.4% in 2009 to 69.2% in 2024, down 20.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Collin County: its share of workers rose from 6.5% in 2009 to 27.5% in 2024, up 21.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 18.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Collin County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Collin County?

The bars show when commuters in Collin 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		3.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		14.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Collin County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 8.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 52.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.9%) 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 Collin 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 Collin 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 Collin 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Collin County	Texas	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:44 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:49 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:50 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Collin County were on the road by 7:50 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:42 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Collin County now leave 12 minutes 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 Collin County has moved 6 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Collin County in the whole series.

How does Collin County's commute time compare?

Metric	Collin County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.1 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	27.5%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Collin County is 26.1 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Collin County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Collin County, TX is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 1,163,170 residents against a local median of 143,336. The measure that sets Collin County, TX apart most is work from home: 27.5%, 75% above the local median of 15.7%.

The counties themselves spread 13.3% on work from home, so Collin County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Collin County, TX has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Collin County, TX	1,163,170	26.1 min #5/6	27.5% #1/6	7:50 AM #6/6
Rockwall County, TX	123,617	32.3 min	18.6%	7:28 AM
Grayson County, TX	143,336	20.2 min	12.6%	7:28 AM
Dallas County, TX	2,620,115	23.9 min	15.7%	7:41 AM
Hunt County, TX	108,970	22.9 min	10.1%	7:21 AM
Denton County, TX	979,063	26.1 min	23.5%	7:42 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Collin County, Texas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Collin County, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 218 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,749 at a typical national wage. That's 15% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Collin County, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Collin County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is Collin County, Texas a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 27.5% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Collin County would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,699 at the same national wage assumption used above.

How do commute times compare across counties in Texas?

Among counties in Texas, the shortest average commutes are in Loving County (3.3 min), King County (5.8 min), Terrell County (6.5 min). The longest are in Bandera County (38.6 min), San Jacinto County (35.9 min), Liberty County (33.6 min).