Erath County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Erath County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Erath County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 114 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 9.1 minutes.

Erath County holds about 0.1% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Erath County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,419 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)
Erath County	13.7 min	27.5 min	114 hrs/yr	$3,548	389
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 13.7 minutes to get to work in Erath County. That's 39% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 73% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Erath County

• Car: 86.0%
• Worked at Home: 7.2%
• Walked: 4.1%
• Other: 1.6%
• Bicycle: 1.1% unusually high
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Erath County: 4.6 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Erath County: 37.2 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

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

Biking is unusually common in Erath County: 5.2 times more than the Texas average (1.1% vs 0.2%).

Erath County stands out for active commuting: 5.2% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.1 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Erath County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Erath 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	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.9%	5.4%	4.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	91.3%	4.2%	3.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	90.6%	3.8%	4.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	92.0%	3.9%	3.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	92.3%	3.8%	2.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	92.7%	3.2%	2.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	92.0%	3.6%	3.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	92.9%	3.8%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	92.0%	4.5%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	90.9%	5.7%	2.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	91.2%	5.4%	2.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	91.3%	5.1%	2.0%	0.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	89.5%	5.5%	2.7%	1.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	86.7%	6.9%	3.8%	1.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	86.3%	6.7%	4.5%	1.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.0%	7.2%	4.1%	1.6%	1.1%	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 2016 at 92.9%. Overall it fell from 89.9% in 2009 to 86.0% in 2024, down 3.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Erath County: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.2% in 2024, up 1.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Erath County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Erath County?

The bars show when commuters in Erath 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 Erath County6.5% Texas5.5%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Erath County5.3% Texas4.4%	5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Erath County3.7% Texas5.1%	3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Erath County6.0% Texas9.3%	6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Erath County7.6% Texas9.3%	7.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Erath County17.3% Texas15.3%	17.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Erath County17.0% Texas11.8%	17.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Erath County8.4% Texas11.5%	8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Erath County4.4% Texas4.8%	4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Erath County6.3% Texas6.7%	6.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Erath County1.9% Texas3.1%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Erath County1.3% Texas1.3%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Erath County8.6% Texas5.8%	8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Erath County5.6% Texas6.2%	5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Erath County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 15.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 50.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.7%) 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 Erath 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 Erath 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 Erath 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	Erath County	Texas	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 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	7:35 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	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Erath County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:40 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Erath County now leave 2 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 Erath County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Erath County's commute time compare?

Metric	Erath County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.7 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.2%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	4.1%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Erath County is 13.7 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 4.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau