Crosby County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Crosby County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Crosby County spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 230 hours, about 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.8 minutes.

Crosby 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 Crosby County would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,849 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)
Crosby County	27.6 min	55.1 min	230 hrs/yr	$7,123	125
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 27.6 minutes to get to work in Crosby County. That's 23% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 86% of counties in Texas

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 2.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Crosby County

• Car: 94.3%
• Worked at Home: 2.6% unusually low
• Other: 1.6%
• Walked: 1.5%
• 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 Crosby County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Crosby County: 5.5 times less than the Texas average (2.6% vs 14.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Crosby County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Crosby 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.2%	4.4%	0.1%	5.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	90.6%	4.5%	0.1%	3.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	89.9%	4.2%	1.1%	3.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.8%	0.4%
2012	88.7%	4.5%	2.2%	3.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
2013	88.9%	4.7%	2.1%	2.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%
2014	89.6%	3.5%	3.1%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.3%
2015	92.0%	1.4%	3.2%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2016	92.8%	1.5%	3.1%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.0%	1.3%	3.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.1%	2.7%	4.1%	2.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.4%	3.7%	3.4%	2.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.9%	2.9%	4.0%	1.7%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.4%	2.7%	3.8%	1.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.8%	3.2%	3.1%	2.7%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.1%	3.6%	3.5%	2.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.3%	2.6%	1.6%	1.5%	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 bottomed out in 2012 at 88.7%. Overall it rose from 90.2% in 2009 to 94.3% in 2024, up 4.1 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.1% to 1.5% of workers (down 3.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 1.1% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Crosby County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Crosby County?

The bars show when commuters in Crosby 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 Crosby County7.8% Texas5.5%	7.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Crosby County5.0% Texas4.4%	5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Crosby County5.7% Texas5.1%	5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Crosby County6.9% Texas9.3%	6.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Crosby County11.9% Texas9.3%	11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Crosby County16.3% Texas15.3%	16.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Crosby County20.8% Texas11.8%	20.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Crosby County6.2% Texas11.5%	6.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Crosby County2.8% Texas4.8%	2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Crosby County6.0% Texas6.7%	6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Crosby County1.4% Texas3.1%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Crosby County0.2% Texas1.3%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Crosby County5.6% Texas5.8%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Crosby County3.5% Texas6.2%	3.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Crosby County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 18.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 55.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.6%) 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 Crosby 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 Crosby 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 Crosby 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.

• Crosby County
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Crosby County	Texas	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Crosby County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Crosby County now leave 14 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 Crosby County has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Crosby County in the whole series.

How does Crosby County's commute time compare?

Metric	Crosby County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.6 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	2.6%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Crosby County is 27.6 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau