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Dimmit County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Dimmit County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dimmit County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 132 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.9 minutes.

Dimmit 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 Dimmit County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,638 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)
Dimmit County 15.9 min 31.7 min 132 hrs/yr $4,096 436
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Texas
  1. Loving County (3.2 min)
  2. King County (5.8 min)
  3. Terrell County (6.5 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Texas
  1. Bandera County (38.6 min)
  2. San Jacinto County (35.9 min)
  3. Liberty County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Dimmit County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.9 minutes to get to work in Dimmit County. That's 29% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 walking. About 5.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dimmit County

  • Car: 84.6%
  • Walked: 8.1% unusually high
  • Worked at Home: 5.6%
  • Other: 1.1%
  • Bicycle: 0.6%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually common in Dimmit County: 5.5 times more than the Texas average (8.1% vs 1.5%).

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

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

Dimmit County stands out for active commuting: 8.7% of workers walk or bike to work, 5.2 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Dimmit County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dimmit 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.

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 Walked Worked at Home Other Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 92.8% 4.8% 1.4% 0.1% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 92.7% 4.4% 1.6% 0.1% 0.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 91.0% 4.4% 2.1% 1.3% 0.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 89.6% 4.0% 3.8% 1.6% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 89.4% 2.5% 5.2% 1.9% 0.0% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 90.7% 3.5% 4.5% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 87.5% 4.5% 5.7% 2.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 91.8% 3.2% 4.1% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 88.9% 3.1% 6.7% 1.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 93.6% 3.1% 1.8% 1.2% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 91.5% 3.0% 3.8% 1.2% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 93.8% 0.7% 4.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 94.1% 1.0% 4.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 90.4% 1.5% 7.0% 0.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 89.2% 4.2% 5.6% 0.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 84.6% 8.1% 5.6% 1.1% 0.6% 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 2021 at 94.1%. Overall it fell from 92.8% in 2009 to 84.6% in 2024, down 8.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Dimmit County: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 5.6% in 2024, up 4.2 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Biking overtook public transit to become the 5th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 7.0% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 5.6%.

Commute Start Times in Dimmit County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dimmit County?

The bars show when commuters in Dimmit 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
3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
12.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
17.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
7.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
8.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
1.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
9.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dimmit County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 20.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 41.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.8%) 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 Dimmit 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 Dimmit 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 Dimmit 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Dimmit County Texas United States
2009 7:31 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:26 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:34 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:35 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:40 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:31 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:30 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:33 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:31 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:28 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:30 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:46 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:41 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:41 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:22 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:11 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dimmit County were on the road by 7:11 AM, 20 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:31 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Dimmit County now leave 27 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 Dimmit County has moved 19 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Dimmit County in the whole series.

How does Dimmit County's commute time compare?

Metric Dimmit County Texas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 15.9 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 5.6% 14.4% 15.0%
Walked 8.1% 1.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Dimmit County is 15.9 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 8.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Dimmit County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Dimmit County, TX is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 8,380 residents against a local median of 18,582. Dimmit County, TX sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 5% above the local median at 5.6% against 5.4%. Dimmit County, TX has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Dimmit County, TX 8,380 15.9 min #3/6 5.6% #3/6 7:11 AM #1/6
Zavala County, TX 9,412 13.6 min 6.4% 7:50 AM
Maverick County, TX 58,082 16.9 min 5.4% 7:52 AM
La Salle County, TX 6,839 7.7 min 4.3% 7:40 AM
Webb County, TX 269,285 18.5 min 5.8% 8:03 AM
Frio County, TX 18,582 16.3 min 1.7% 7:20 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Dimmit County, Texas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Dimmit County, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 132 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,096 at a typical national wage. That's 30% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Dimmit County, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Dimmit County, 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 Dimmit County, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Texas?

Among counties in Texas, the shortest average commutes are in Loving County (3.3 min), King County (5.8 min), Terrell County (6.5 min). The longest are in Bandera County (38.6 min), San Jacinto County (35.9 min), Liberty County (33.6 min).