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Franklin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Franklin County, 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 Franklin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Franklin County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.2 minutes.

Franklin 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 Franklin County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,920 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)
Franklin County 18.6 min 37.2 min 155 hrs/yr $4,801 378
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

Franklin County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.6 minutes to get to work in Franklin County. That's 17% 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 15.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Franklin County

  • Car: 82.3%
  • Worked at Home: 15.2%
  • Walked: 1.4%
  • Other: 1.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 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 Franklin County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Franklin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Franklin 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 Worked at Home Walked Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 91.2% 3.3% 3.4% 1.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0%
2010 93.7% 2.7% 2.5% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0%
2011 93.2% 4.3% 1.7% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2012 92.2% 5.3% 1.7% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2013 93.3% 3.5% 2.5% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 91.4% 5.2% 2.5% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 90.4% 5.5% 3.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 91.3% 5.0% 2.7% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2017 91.4% 5.5% 1.5% 1.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2018 90.5% 6.9% 0.6% 0.9% 0.8% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2019 91.7% 6.3% 0.0% 0.9% 0.6% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0%
2020 89.0% 9.1% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2021 87.5% 11.1% 0.5% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2022 83.2% 14.7% 1.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2023 84.9% 12.3% 1.7% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2024 82.3% 15.2% 1.4% 1.1% 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 peaked in 2010 at 93.7%. Overall it fell from 91.2% in 2009 to 82.3% in 2024, down 8.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Franklin County: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 15.2% in 2024, up 11.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.4% to 1.4% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Franklin County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Franklin County?

The bars show when commuters in Franklin 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
13.5%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
8.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
9.3%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Franklin County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 28.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 46.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.0%) 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 Franklin 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 Franklin 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 Franklin 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 Franklin County Texas United States
2009 7:28 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:27 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:28 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:25 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:26 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:27 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:19 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:20 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:16 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:17 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:15 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:08 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:12 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:05 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 6:55 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:04 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Franklin County were on the road by 7:04 AM, 24 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Franklin County now leave 34 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 Franklin County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Franklin County's commute time compare?

Metric Franklin County Texas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 18.6 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 15.2% 14.4% 15.0%
Walked 1.4% 1.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Franklin County is 18.6 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Franklin County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Franklin County, TX is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 10,632 residents against a local median of 31,363. Where Franklin County, TX breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 69% above the local median of 9.0% at 15.2%.

The counties themselves spread 5.4% on work from home, so Franklin County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Franklin County, TX has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Franklin County, TX 10,632 18.6 min #4/6 15.2% #1/6 7:04 AM #1/6
Titus County, TX 31,363 15.7 min 5.2% 7:17 AM
Camp County, TX 12,798 17.9 min 9.0% 7:32 AM
Hopkins County, TX 37,784 16.9 min 7.2% 7:21 AM
Wood County, TX 46,961 23.6 min 10.6% 7:18 AM
Red River County, TX 11,611 28.6 min 10.6% 7:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Franklin County, Texas.

Is living in Franklin County, Texas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 155 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,801 at a typical national wage. That's 18% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Franklin County, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Franklin County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Franklin 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).