Farmers Branch Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Farmers Branch, Texas: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Farmers Branch: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Farmers Branch spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 175 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Farmers Branch 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 Farmers Branch would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,168 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)
Farmers Branch	21.0 min	42.0 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,419	3,692
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.

Farmers Branch Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.0 minutes to get to work in Farmers Branch. That's 6% 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 working from home. About 18.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Farmers Branch

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Farmers Branch: 69.9 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Farmers Branch: 7.7 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Farmers Branch, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Farmers Branch 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	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.8%	3.3%	0.8%	2.5%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	92.3%	2.7%	1.2%	2.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	91.4%	3.7%	0.6%	2.3%	1.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	91.2%	3.5%	0.8%	2.3%	1.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	91.8%	3.0%	0.6%	1.9%	2.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2014	91.8%	3.2%	0.7%	1.7%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2015	91.8%	4.1%	0.3%	1.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2016	91.7%	4.3%	0.4%	0.9%	2.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	91.3%	4.2%	0.7%	0.8%	2.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	91.5%	4.4%	0.7%	1.0%	1.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	91.5%	4.6%	0.8%	1.1%	1.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	87.1%	7.9%	1.5%	1.0%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	85.4%	9.4%	2.0%	1.1%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	83.2%	11.9%	1.9%	1.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	80.3%	15.6%	1.8%	1.1%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	76.8%	18.0%	1.9%	1.4%	1.3%	0.5%	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 2010 at 92.3%. Overall it fell from 91.8% in 2009 to 76.8% in 2024, down 15.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Farmers Branch: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 18.0% in 2024, up 14.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.4% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 2.4% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 1.3%.

Commute Start Times in Farmers Branch

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Farmers Branch?

The bars show when commuters in Farmers Branch 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		4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Farmers Branch is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 11.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 49.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.9%) 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 Farmers Branch, 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 Farmers Branch 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 Farmers Branch 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	Farmers Branch	Texas	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:50 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:55 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:50 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:47 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:48 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:50 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:57 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Farmers Branch were on the road by 7:57 AM, 14 minutes later than in 2009 (7:43 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Farmers Branch now leave 19 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Farmers Branch has moved 22 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Farmers Branch in the whole series.

How does Farmers Branch's commute time compare?

Metric	Farmers Branch	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.0 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	18.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Farmers Branch is 21.0 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

1.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Farmers Branch, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Farmers Branch, TX is the 3rd largest of the 5 cities compared here, 29,458 residents against a local median of 82,174. Where Farmers Branch, TX breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 19% below the local median of 22.1% at 18.0%.

The cities themselves spread 4.1% on work from home, so Farmers Branch, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Farmers Branch, TX has the 5th highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Farmers Branch, TX	29,458	21.0 min #2/5	18.0% #5/5	7:57 AM #3/5
Addison, TX	20,794	22.0 min	24.0%	8:03 AM
Carrollton, TX	139,254	22.9 min	21.6%	7:49 AM
Irving, TX	255,814	22.1 min	20.0%	7:47 AM
University Park, TX	25,094	16.1 min	22.7%	8:22 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Farmers Branch, Texas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Farmers Branch, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 175 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,419 at a typical national wage. That's 8% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Farmers Branch, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Farmers Branch, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.