Garland Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Garland, 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 Garland: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Garland spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 258 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 36% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 8.2 minutes.

Garland holds about 0.8% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Garland would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,201 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)
Garland	31.0 min	62.0 min	258 hrs/yr	$8,003	3,159
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.

Garland Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.0 minutes to get to work in Garland. That's 38% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Garland

Commute Mode Trends in Garland, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Garland 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.2%	2.4%	0.6%	3.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	92.2%	2.5%	0.6%	3.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	92.3%	2.7%	0.5%	2.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	92.6%	3.1%	0.5%	2.4%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	92.2%	3.5%	0.5%	2.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	92.3%	3.5%	0.7%	2.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	91.6%	3.8%	0.8%	2.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	91.8%	3.5%	0.9%	2.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	91.4%	3.7%	0.8%	2.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	91.6%	3.8%	1.2%	2.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	90.7%	4.4%	1.1%	2.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2020	89.7%	6.0%	0.9%	2.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	87.7%	8.1%	1.0%	2.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	86.4%	9.6%	1.1%	1.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	84.5%	11.6%	1.1%	1.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	84.5%	12.4%	1.1%	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 92.6%. Overall it fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 84.5% in 2024, down 7.7 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Garland: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 12.4% in 2024, up 10.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 1.0% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Garland

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Garland?

The bars show when commuters in Garland 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		4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Garland is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 15.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 46.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.5%) 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 Garland, 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 Garland 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 Garland 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	Garland	Texas	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 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	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Garland were on the road by 7:33 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:28 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Garland now leave 5 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 Garland has moved 7 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Garland in the whole series.

How does Garland's commute time compare?

Metric	Garland	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.0 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.4%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Garland is 31.0 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

1.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Garland, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Garland, TX is the largest of the 5 cities compared here, 238,307 residents against a local median of 38,173. The measure that sets Garland, TX apart most is work from home: 12.4%, 49% below the local median of 24.3%.

The cities themselves spread 13.4% on work from home, so Garland, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Garland, TX has the 5th highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Garland, TX	238,307	31.0 min #3/5	12.4% #5/5	7:33 AM #2/5
Sachse, TX	27,449	30.6 min	23.9%	7:55 AM
Rowlett, TX	48,896	31.4 min	19.2%	7:28 AM
Richardson, TX	115,321	22.2 min	24.6%	8:05 AM
Murphy, TX	20,156	31.4 min	32.6%	8:02 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Garland, Texas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 258 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,003 at a typical national wage. That's 36% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

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

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