Delta County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Delta County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Delta County spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 226 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.3 minutes.

Delta 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 Delta County would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,805 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)
Delta County	27.1 min	54.3 min	226 hrs/yr	$7,012	285
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

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On average, it takes 27.1 minutes to get to work in Delta County. That's 21% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 84% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Delta County

• Car: 87.9%
• Worked at Home: 8.0%
• Other: 3.6%
• Walked: 0.6%
• 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 Delta County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

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

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Delta County: just 0.6%, 3.0 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Delta County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Delta 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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• 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	88.3%	8.8%	0.7%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	89.4%	8.5%	0.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	87.9%	9.5%	0.7%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	89.7%	7.8%	0.2%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.9%	4.6%	0.5%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.4%	4.5%	1.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	93.6%	2.3%	1.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	93.5%	2.6%	1.1%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	94.0%	1.5%	1.0%	2.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2018	94.5%	2.9%	0.9%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	94.4%	3.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2020	95.3%	2.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2021	95.0%	3.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2022	91.2%	8.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2023	87.7%	7.1%	4.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2024	87.9%	8.0%	3.6%	0.6%	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 2020 at 95.3% and lowest in 2023 at 87.7%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 88.3% in 2009 and 87.9% in 2024.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 0.6% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Delta County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Delta County?

The bars show when commuters in Delta 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 Delta County6.8% Texas5.5%	6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Delta County8.2% Texas4.4%	8.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Delta County4.9% Texas5.1%	4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Delta County19.6% Texas9.3%	19.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Delta County7.1% Texas9.3%	7.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Delta County19.4% Texas15.3%	19.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Delta County13.0% Texas11.8%	13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Delta County7.6% Texas11.5%	7.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Delta County1.4% Texas4.8%	1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Delta County1.3% Texas6.7%	1.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Delta County0.2% Texas3.1%	0.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Delta County0.4% Texas1.3%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Delta County1.9% Texas5.8%	1.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Delta County8.1% Texas6.2%	8.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Delta County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 19.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 19.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 47.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (11.9%) 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 Delta 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 Delta 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 Delta 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.

• Delta County
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Delta County	Texas	United States
2009	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:10 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:05 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Delta County were on the road by 7:05 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:08 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Delta County now leave 33 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 Delta County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Delta County's commute time compare?

Metric	Delta County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.1 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	8.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Delta County is 27.1 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau