Friendswood Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Friendswood, 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 Friendswood: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Friendswood spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 228 hours, about 9.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.5 minutes.

Friendswood holds about 0.1% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Friendswood would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,825 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)
Friendswood	27.3 min	54.7 min	228 hrs/yr	$7,063	3,720
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.

Friendswood Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.3 minutes to get to work in Friendswood. That's 22% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 17.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Friendswood

Biking is unusually rare in Friendswood: 9.2 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Friendswood, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Friendswood 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.8%	3.6%	1.4%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	92.6%	4.4%	1.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	92.4%	4.2%	1.3%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	92.1%	4.4%	1.2%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	91.6%	5.1%	0.7%	1.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	91.6%	5.1%	0.7%	1.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	91.3%	4.9%	1.1%	1.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	92.2%	4.7%	0.9%	1.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	92.0%	5.1%	0.9%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	92.5%	5.1%	0.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2019	91.7%	6.1%	0.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	88.4%	9.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	85.1%	12.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	84.3%	13.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	82.8%	15.2%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	80.6%	17.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 92.8% in 2009 to 80.6% in 2024, down 12.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Friendswood: its share of workers rose from 3.6% in 2009 to 17.2% in 2024, up 13.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Friendswood

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Friendswood?

The bars show when commuters in Friendswood 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		5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Friendswood is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 14.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 53.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.7%) 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 Friendswood, 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 Friendswood 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 Friendswood 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	Friendswood	Texas	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Friendswood were on the road by 7:25 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Friendswood now leave 13 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Friendswood's commute time compare?

Metric	Friendswood	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.3 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	17.2%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Friendswood is 27.3 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Friendswood, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Friendswood, TX compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Friendswood, TX	40,186	27.3 min #2/3	17.2% #1/3	7:25 AM #1/3
League City, TX	120,827	27.1 min	14.8%	7:28 AM
Pearland, TX	126,572	31.6 min	13.5%	7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Friendswood, Texas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 228 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,063 at a typical national wage. That's 20% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Friendswood, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Friendswood, 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.