Gaines County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Gaines County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gaines 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.

Gaines County 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 Gaines County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,418 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)
Gaines County	13.7 min	27.4 min	114 hrs/yr	$3,546	320
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

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On average, it takes 13.7 minutes to get to work in Gaines 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 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gaines County

• Car: 93.5%
• Worked at Home: 3.0% unusually low
• Other: 2.1%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Gaines County: 78.1 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Gaines County: 4.8 times less than the Texas average (3.0% vs 14.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Gaines County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gaines 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	89.9%	6.0%	1.2%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.1%	6.4%	2.3%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	88.8%	5.0%	2.6%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.7%	3.3%	2.5%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.5%	2.1%	2.8%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.3%	1.5%	1.5%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.1%	1.5%	0.4%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.2%	1.8%	0.3%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.7%	2.1%	0.1%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.0%	2.4%	0.4%	5.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.9%	2.2%	1.2%	4.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.4%	3.4%	4.9%	4.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	88.9%	4.1%	4.1%	2.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.2%	4.0%	3.8%	2.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.1%	3.6%	2.7%	2.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.5%	3.0%	2.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2015 at 94.1% and lowest in 2020 at 87.4%. Overall it rose from 89.9% in 2009 to 93.5% in 2024, up 3.6 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 6.0% to 3.0% of workers (down 3.0 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 5.0% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 1.2%.

Commute Start Times in Gaines County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gaines County?

The bars show when commuters in Gaines 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 Gaines County5.0% Texas5.5%	5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Gaines County4.1% Texas4.4%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Gaines County3.5% Texas5.1%	3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Gaines County13.0% Texas9.3%	13.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Gaines County12.6% Texas9.3%	12.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Gaines County17.6% Texas15.3%	17.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Gaines County18.9% Texas11.8%	18.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Gaines County16.4% Texas11.5%	16.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Gaines County0.3% Texas4.8%	0.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Gaines County1.8% Texas6.7%	1.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Gaines County4.3% Texas3.1%	4.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Gaines County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Gaines County0.6% Texas5.8%	0.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Gaines County1.9% Texas6.2%	1.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gaines County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 12.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 65.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 12 commuters (8.6%) 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 Gaines 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 Gaines 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 Gaines 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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• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Gaines County	Texas	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gaines County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:30 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Gaines County now leave 18 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Gaines County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gaines County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.7 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gaines 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. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau