DeSoto Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in DeSoto: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in DeSoto spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 253 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 33% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.5 minutes.

DeSoto holds about 0.2% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in DeSoto would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,133 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)
DeSoto	30.3 min	60.6 min	253 hrs/yr	$7,833	2,910
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.

DeSoto Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.3 minutes to get to work in DeSoto. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 16.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in DeSoto

• Car: 81.6%
• Worked at Home: 16.9%
• Other: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in DeSoto: 4.9 times less than the Texas average (0.3% vs 1.5%).

Public transit is unusually rare in DeSoto: 3.7 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Biking is essentially absent in DeSoto, versus 0.2% in Texas.

Few people walk or bike to work in DeSoto: just 0.3%, 5.6 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in DeSoto, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in DeSoto 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	94.7%	2.8%	0.5%	0.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.2%	2.5%	0.8%	0.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.3%	2.5%	0.7%	0.3%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.1%	2.8%	0.4%	0.6%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.8%	2.9%	0.6%	0.6%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.5%	3.0%	0.9%	0.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.1%	2.8%	0.8%	0.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.5%	2.6%	1.0%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.2%	2.6%	1.3%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.1%	2.7%	1.2%	0.6%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.7%	4.0%	1.2%	0.6%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.8%	7.7%	1.0%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.6%	9.7%	1.0%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	84.9%	13.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.5%	15.4%	1.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	81.6%	16.9%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.7% in 2009 to 81.6% in 2024, down 13.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in DeSoto: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 16.9% in 2024, up 14.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in DeSoto

What Time Do People Leave for Work in DeSoto?

The bars show when commuters in DeSoto 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 DeSoto6.6% Texas5.5%	6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM DeSoto5.4% Texas4.4%	5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM DeSoto7.4% Texas5.1%	7.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM DeSoto8.6% Texas9.3%	8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM DeSoto10.4% Texas9.3%	10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM DeSoto13.1% Texas15.3%	13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM DeSoto9.4% Texas11.8%	9.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM DeSoto11.8% Texas11.5%	11.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM DeSoto4.3% Texas4.8%	4.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM DeSoto5.3% Texas6.7%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM DeSoto2.8% Texas3.1%	2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM DeSoto0.1% Texas1.3%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM DeSoto6.4% Texas5.8%	6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM DeSoto8.3% Texas6.2%	8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in DeSoto is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 19.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 44.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.0%) 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 DeSoto, 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 DeSoto 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 DeSoto 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.

• DeSoto
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	DeSoto	Texas	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 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	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in DeSoto were on the road by 7:27 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:23 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in DeSoto now leave 11 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 DeSoto has moved 8 minutes later.

How does DeSoto's commute time compare?

Metric	DeSoto	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.3 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	16.9%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in DeSoto is 30.3 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau