Garza County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Garza County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Garza County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 97 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 49% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 11.1 minutes.

Garza 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 Garza County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,208 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)
Garza County	11.7 min	23.4 min	97 hrs/yr	$3,020	146
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.

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On average, it takes 11.7 minutes to get to work in Garza County. That's 48% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 84% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 1.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Garza County

• Car: 96.6%
• Walked: 1.9%
• Worked at Home: 1.5% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%
• 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 Garza County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Garza County: 9.8 times less than the Texas average (1.5% vs 14.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Garza County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Garza 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	96.2%	1.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	94.9%	0.0%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
2011	91.3%	2.3%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.4%
2012	89.6%	4.2%	5.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2013	90.4%	3.2%	5.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2014	91.1%	3.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.7%
2015	93.2%	3.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.9%
2016	95.8%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
2017	95.3%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.6%
2018	97.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2019	98.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	97.8%	2.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	96.3%	3.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	98.7%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	98.0%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	96.6%	1.9%	1.5%	0.0%	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 was highest in 2022 at 98.7% and lowest in 2012 at 89.6%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 96.2% in 2009 and 96.6% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Garza County: its share of workers rose from 1.0% in 2009 to 1.9% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 1.5% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 4.2% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 1.9%.

Commute Start Times in Garza County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Garza County?

The bars show when commuters in Garza 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 Garza County0.8% Texas5.5%	0.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Garza County4.2% Texas4.4%	4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Garza County1.6% Texas5.1%	1.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Garza County8.7% Texas9.3%	8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Garza County18.1% Texas9.3%	18.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Garza County13.1% Texas15.3%	13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Garza County16.4% Texas11.8%	16.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Garza County14.5% Texas11.5%	14.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Garza County5.4% Texas4.8%	5.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Garza County4.7% Texas6.7%	4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Garza County1.3% Texas3.1%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Garza County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Garza County4.4% Texas5.8%	4.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Garza County6.8% Texas6.2%	6.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Garza County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 6.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 62.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.2%) 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 Garza 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 Garza 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 Garza 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Garza County	Texas	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:51 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Garza County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:43 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Garza County now leave 1 minute 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 Garza County has moved 20 minutes later.

How does Garza County's commute time compare?

Metric	Garza County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.7 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	1.5%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Garza County is 11.7 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau