Fort Hood Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Fort Hood, 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 Fort Hood: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fort Hood spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 95 hours, about 4.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 50% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 11.4 minutes.

Fort Hood holds about 0.1% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Fort Hood would save about 38 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,181 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)
Fort Hood	11.4 min	22.9 min	95 hrs/yr	$2,952	3,087
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.

Fort Hood Commute Map

On average, it takes 11.4 minutes to get to work in Fort Hood. That's 49% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 11.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fort Hood

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Fort Hood: 3.2 times more than the Texas average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually common in Fort Hood: 12.7 times more than the Texas average (18.8% vs 1.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Fort Hood: 6.7 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Fort Hood stands out for active commuting: 18.8% of workers walk or bike to work, 11.2 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Fort Hood, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fort Hood 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	Public Transportation	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	75.1%	16.0%	7.5%	0.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	71.9%	21.0%	5.8%	0.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	73.0%	21.2%	4.4%	0.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	71.4%	23.2%	4.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	68.0%	26.0%	4.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2014	67.0%	25.4%	5.0%	0.2%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	74.4%	18.2%	4.4%	0.2%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.9%
2016	72.9%	18.7%	5.5%	0.2%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	1.0%
2017	71.2%	19.2%	6.3%	0.3%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	1.1%
2018	70.3%	20.7%	6.6%	0.3%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	70.8%	21.5%	6.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	68.1%	24.5%	5.9%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2021	65.1%	25.3%	7.1%	1.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	65.3%	22.9%	9.7%	1.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	66.1%	20.7%	11.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	68.5%	18.8%	11.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2021 at 65.1%. Overall it fell from 75.1% in 2009 to 68.5% in 2024, down 6.6 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fort Hood: its share of workers rose from 7.5% in 2009 to 11.0% in 2024, up 3.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 26.0% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 18.8%.

Commute Start Times in Fort Hood

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fort Hood?

The bars show when commuters in Fort Hood 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		6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		10.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		19.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		22.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		5.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		3.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		4.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		9.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		0.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		1.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.6%

Fort Hood Texas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Fort Hood is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 22.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 36.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 22.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 10 commuters (10.3%) 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 Fort Hood, 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 Fort Hood 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 Fort Hood 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	Fort Hood	Texas	United States
2009	6:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:10 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:04 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:04 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:04 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:05 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:09 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fort Hood were on the road by 6:19 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (6:13 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Fort Hood now leave 79 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 Fort Hood has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Fort Hood's commute time compare?

Metric	Fort Hood	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.4 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	05:30 AM – 05:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	18.8%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fort Hood is 11.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 18.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Fort Hood, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Fort Hood, TX is the smallest of the 4 cities compared here, 23,244 residents against a local median of 29,853. Fort Hood, TX's one-way commute, at 11.4 min, runs 45% below the 20.9 min typical of the cities around it. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 11.0% against a local median of 7.6%, 44% above it. The cities themselves sit within 3.2 min of each other on one-way commute, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Fort Hood, TX, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Fort Hood, TX has the lowest one-way commute of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Fort Hood, TX	23,244	11.4 min #1/4	11.0% #2/4	6:19 AM #1/4
Killeen, TX	148,206	18.4 min	7.6%	7:01 AM
Copperas Cove, TX	28,341	21.6 min	11.2%	7:22 AM
Harker Heights, TX	29,853	20.9 min	7.5%	7:21 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Fort Hood, Texas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Fort Hood, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 95 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,952 at a typical national wage. That's 50% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Fort Hood, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Fort Hood, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.