Edwards County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Edwards County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Edwards County spend about 16 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 65 hours, about 2.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 66% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 15.0 minutes.

Edwards 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 Edwards County would save about 26 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $803 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)
Edwards County	7.8 min	15.5 min	65 hrs/yr	$2,009	56
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 7.8 minutes to get to work in Edwards County. That's 65% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Edwards County

• Car: 79.5%
• Worked at Home: 14.0%
• Other: 6.5%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Walked: < 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 Edwards County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Walking is essentially absent in Edwards County, versus 1.5% in Texas.

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

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

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

Walking or biking to work is essentially absent in Edwards County, versus 1.7% in Texas.

Commute Mode Trends in Edwards County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Edwards 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	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Walked
2009	83.0%	8.7%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.6%
2010	81.3%	12.7%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.0%
2011	72.5%	15.5%	7.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.6%
2012	75.9%	12.5%	6.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.7%
2013	76.2%	9.1%	8.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	6.3%
2014	72.7%	14.4%	7.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	5.3%
2015	70.6%	16.5%	7.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	5.7%
2016	77.9%	14.1%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.9%
2017	78.9%	16.3%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%
2018	82.5%	16.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.2%	10.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.9%	8.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.0%	10.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.6%	9.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	77.2%	17.2%	5.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	79.5%	14.0%	6.5%	0.0%	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 91.9% and lowest in 2015 at 70.6%. Overall it fell from 83.0% in 2009 to 79.5% in 2024, down 3.5 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Edwards County: its share of workers rose from 8.7% in 2009 to 14.0% in 2024, up 5.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.6% to 0.0% of workers (down 4.6 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 17.2% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 14.0%.

Commute Start Times in Edwards County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Edwards County?

The bars show when commuters in Edwards 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 Edwards County14.7% Texas5.5%	14.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Edwards County2.4% Texas4.4%	2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Edwards County1.8% Texas5.1%	1.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Edwards County5.6% Texas9.3%	5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Edwards County6.0% Texas9.3%	6.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Edwards County29.8% Texas15.3%	29.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Edwards County0.4% Texas11.8%	0.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Edwards County10.7% Texas11.5%	10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Edwards County14.7% Texas4.8%	14.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Edwards County0.0% Texas6.7%	0.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Edwards County3.3% Texas3.1%	3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Edwards County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Edwards County4.0% Texas5.8%	4.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Edwards County6.5% Texas6.2%	6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Edwards County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 29.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 47.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.8%) 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 Edwards 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 Edwards 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 Edwards 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	Edwards County	Texas	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Edwards County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 15 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Edwards County now leave 18 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 Edwards County has moved 19 minutes earlier.

How does Edwards County's commute time compare?

Metric	Edwards County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	7.8 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Edwards County is 7.8 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau