Dickens County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Dickens County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dickens County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 130 hours, about 5.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.2 minutes.

Dickens 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 Dickens County would save about 52 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,614 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)
Dickens County	15.6 min	31.2 min	130 hrs/yr	$4,034	57
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 15.6 minutes to get to work in Dickens County. That's 30% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 2.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dickens County

• Car: 86.7%
• Walked: 8.4% unusually high
• Other: 2.7%
• Worked at Home: 2.2% unusually low
• 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 Dickens County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Walking is unusually common in Dickens County: 5.7 times more than the Texas average (8.4% vs 1.5%).

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Dickens County: 6.4 times less than the Texas average (2.2% vs 14.4%).

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

Dickens County stands out for active commuting: 8.4% of workers walk or bike to work, 5.0 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Dickens County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dickens 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	Other	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	87.2%	4.2%	0.0%	7.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	85.6%	6.8%	0.0%	7.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.9%	6.7%	0.0%	6.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	86.9%	6.6%	0.2%	5.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%
2013	83.1%	8.5%	0.6%	6.2%	0.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%
2014	84.8%	6.4%	1.1%	6.2%	0.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%
2015	85.0%	6.2%	1.1%	6.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%
2016	80.5%	8.5%	5.3%	4.4%	0.4%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2017	81.3%	7.1%	6.2%	5.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	83.1%	6.6%	6.1%	3.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	80.7%	5.8%	8.5%	4.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	75.6%	12.8%	7.9%	2.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2021	81.2%	10.8%	6.3%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	83.4%	10.5%	4.2%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.1%	8.3%	4.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.7%	8.4%	2.7%	2.2%	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 2020 at 75.6%. Overall it fell from 87.2% in 2009 to 86.7% in 2024, down 0.5 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 4 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Dickens County: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 8.4% in 2024, up 4.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 7.8% to 2.2% of workers (down 5.6 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 12.8% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 8.4%.

Commute Start Times in Dickens County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dickens County?

The bars show when commuters in Dickens 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 Dickens County0.9% Texas5.5%	0.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Dickens County0.4% Texas4.4%	0.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Dickens County8.6% Texas5.1%	8.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Dickens County6.5% Texas9.3%	6.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Dickens County11.5% Texas9.3%	11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Dickens County14.2% Texas15.3%	14.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Dickens County17.8% Texas11.8%	17.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Dickens County21.8% Texas11.5%	21.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Dickens County3.6% Texas4.8%	3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Dickens County5.5% Texas6.7%	5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Dickens County0.0% Texas3.1%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Dickens County1.3% Texas1.3%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Dickens County5.7% Texas5.8%	5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Dickens County2.2% Texas6.2%	2.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dickens County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 21.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 9.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 65.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.7%) 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 Dickens 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 Dickens 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 Dickens 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	Dickens County	Texas	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:56 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:55 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:43 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dickens County were on the road by 7:43 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:37 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Dickens County now leave 5 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Dickens County's commute time compare?

Metric	Dickens County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.6 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.2%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	8.4%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Dickens County is 15.6 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 8.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau