Dallam County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Dallam County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dallam County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 98 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 48% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 11.0 minutes.

Dallam 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 Dallam County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,215 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)
Dallam County	11.8 min	23.5 min	98 hrs/yr	$3,038	150
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 11.8 minutes to get to work in Dallam County. That's 48% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 84% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 2.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dallam County

• Car: 93.4%
• Walked: 3.5%
• Worked at Home: 2.4% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.5%
• Other: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Dallam County: 13814.3 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Dallam County: 6.0 times less than the Texas average (2.4% vs 14.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Dallam County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dallam 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	78.0%	3.2%	6.1%	0.7%	11.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	78.2%	4.5%	9.5%	0.3%	7.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	81.0%	4.5%	7.0%	0.4%	6.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	79.4%	4.1%	6.8%	1.1%	8.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	84.0%	3.0%	5.3%	1.2%	6.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	85.2%	6.0%	4.8%	1.4%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	91.7%	2.0%	2.1%	1.3%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	92.3%	1.6%	3.1%	1.3%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	94.9%	1.8%	2.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	96.2%	2.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	96.9%	1.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	97.2%	1.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	97.7%	1.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	97.7%	1.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	98.1%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.4%	3.5%	2.4%	0.5%	0.2%	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 2023 at 98.1%. Overall it rose from 78.0% in 2009 to 93.4% in 2024, up 15.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 6.1% to 2.4% of workers (down 3.7 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 6.0% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 3.5%.

Commute Start Times in Dallam County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dallam County?

The bars show when commuters in Dallam 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 Dallam County4.8% Texas5.5%	4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Dallam County1.4% Texas4.4%	1.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Dallam County7.5% Texas5.1%	7.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Dallam County16.9% Texas9.3%	16.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Dallam County3.1% Texas9.3%	3.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Dallam County6.3% Texas15.3%	6.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Dallam County27.8% Texas11.8%	27.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Dallam County6.4% Texas11.5%	6.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Dallam County5.3% Texas4.8%	5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Dallam County4.8% Texas6.7%	4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Dallam County0.9% Texas3.1%	0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Dallam County0.1% Texas1.3%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Dallam County13.8% Texas5.8%	13.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Dallam County0.8% Texas6.2%	0.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dallam County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 27.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 13.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 43.6% 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 Dallam 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 Dallam 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 Dallam 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Dallam County	Texas	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dallam County were on the road by 7:41 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:32 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Dallam County now leave 3 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 Dallam County has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Dallam County's commute time compare?

Metric	Dallam County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.8 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.4%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	3.5%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Dallam County is 11.8 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 3.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau