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Commuting in Deer Park, 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 Deer Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Deer Park spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 178 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Deer Park holds about 0.1% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Deer Park would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,204 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)
Deer Park 21.3 min 42.7 min 178 hrs/yr $5,510 2,620
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.

Deer Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.3 minutes to get to work in Deer Park. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Deer Park

  • Car: 88.3%
  • Worked at Home: 9.0%
  • Other: 1.6%
  • Walked: 1.0%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Deer Park, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Public transit is unusually rare in Deer Park: 11.7 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Deer Park: 8354129.4 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Deer Park: 17159968.9 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Deer Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Deer Park 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 Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 96.0% 1.8% 0.1% 1.1% 0.4% 0.1% 0.5% 0.0%
2010 95.8% 2.5% 0.2% 0.6% 0.4% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0%
2011 96.1% 2.1% 0.2% 0.8% 0.3% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1%
2012 95.9% 2.0% 0.2% 0.7% 0.2% 0.1% 0.4% 0.4%
2013 95.5% 2.4% 0.2% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.5% 0.4%
2014 95.7% 2.3% 0.4% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.3% 0.4%
2015 95.1% 2.2% 0.6% 1.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.3% 0.4%
2016 95.3% 2.3% 0.5% 1.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.4% 0.2%
2017 94.9% 2.5% 0.4% 1.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1%
2018 93.9% 3.2% 0.4% 1.6% 0.5% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1%
2019 93.8% 3.8% 0.3% 1.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2%
2020 94.4% 4.0% 0.1% 0.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.3%
2021 93.6% 4.9% 0.1% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.3%
2022 91.5% 6.1% 1.4% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1%
2023 90.3% 7.6% 1.3% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2024 88.3% 9.0% 1.6% 1.0% 0.1% 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 2011 at 96.1%. Overall it fell from 96.0% in 2009 to 88.3% in 2024, down 7.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Deer Park: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 7.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Deer Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Deer Park?

The bars show when commuters in Deer Park 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
10.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
7.1%
5:30-5:59 AM
3.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
16.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
10.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Deer Park is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 21.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 48.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.6%) 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 Deer Park, 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 Deer Park 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 Deer Park 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 Deer Park Texas United States
2009 7:07 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:10 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:13 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:13 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:12 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:11 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:10 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:09 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:10 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:12 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:10 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:10 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:11 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:12 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:10 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:10 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Deer Park were on the road by 7:10 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:07 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Deer Park now leave 28 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Deer Park's commute time compare?

Metric Deer Park Texas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 21.3 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 9.0% 14.4% 15.0%
Walked 1.0% 1.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Deer Park is 21.3 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Deer Park, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Deer Park, TX is typical in size for this group, 33,524 residents against a local median of 34,011, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Deer Park, TX breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 21% above the local median of 7.4% at 9.0%.

The cities themselves spread 3.6% on work from home, so Deer Park, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Deer Park, TX has the highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Deer Park, TX 33,524 21.3 min #1/5 9.0% #1/5 7:10 AM #4/5
Pasadena, TX 149,372 23.3 min 8.2% 7:15 AM
La Porte, TX 30,613 21.7 min 7.7% 7:08 AM
Channelview, TX 37,409 30.4 min 7.1% 7:05 AM
Cloverleaf, TX 22,886 26.4 min 4.5% 7:01 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Deer Park, Texas.

Is commuting expensive in Deer Park, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 178 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,510 at a typical national wage. That's 6% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Deer Park, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Deer Park, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.