Gillespie County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Gillespie 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 Gillespie County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gillespie 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 113 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 9.2 minutes.

Gillespie County holds about 0.1% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Gillespie County would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,401 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)
Gillespie County	13.6 min	27.1 min	113 hrs/yr	$3,502	670
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

Loving County (3.2 min)
King County (5.8 min)
Terrell County (6.5 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Texas

Bandera County (38.6 min)
San Jacinto County (35.9 min)
Liberty County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Gillespie County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 13.6 minutes to get to work in Gillespie County. That's 40% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 75% 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 11.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gillespie County

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Gillespie County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Public transit is unusually rare in Gillespie County: 4.7 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Gillespie County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gillespie 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	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.7%	8.6%	3.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	87.5%	9.0%	3.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	89.3%	7.3%	2.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	89.4%	6.7%	2.6%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	89.3%	6.8%	1.5%	0.0%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	88.8%	5.4%	2.8%	0.3%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	89.3%	5.0%	2.5%	0.3%	2.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	88.2%	5.5%	3.6%	0.5%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	86.5%	6.2%	4.4%	0.5%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	87.7%	6.8%	3.9%	0.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	88.4%	6.8%	3.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	87.9%	8.3%	3.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.5%	9.0%	3.3%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.5%	9.4%	3.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.0%	10.9%	3.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.3%	11.4%	1.8%	0.2%	0.2%	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 2012 at 89.4% and lowest in 2023 at 85.0%. Overall it fell from 87.7% in 2009 to 86.3% in 2024, down 1.4 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Gillespie County: its share of workers rose from 8.6% in 2009 to 11.4% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 1.8% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Gillespie County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gillespie County?

The bars show when commuters in Gillespie 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		6.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gillespie County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 10.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 55.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.1%) 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 Gillespie 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 Gillespie 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 Gillespie 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	Gillespie County	Texas	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:48 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:52 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:52 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:55 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:49 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:50 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:48 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:45 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gillespie County were on the road by 7:44 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:43 AM). Texas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Gillespie County now leave 6 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Gillespie County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Gillespie County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gillespie County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.6 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	11.4%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gillespie County is 13.6 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Gillespie County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Gillespie County, TX is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 27,524 residents against a local median of 22,424. The measure that sets Gillespie County, TX apart most is one-way commute: 13.6 min, 40% below the local median of 22.5 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 11.4% against a local median of 15.0%, 24% below it. The counties themselves spread 12.2 min on one-way commute, so Gillespie County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Gillespie County, TX has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Gillespie County, TX	27,524	13.6 min #1/6	11.4% #4/6	7:44 AM #5/6
Kendall County, TX	48,567	28.8 min	21.6%	7:35 AM
Llano County, TX	22,424	22.5 min	15.0%	7:35 AM
Kerr County, TX	53,489	16.6 min	10.2%	7:45 AM
Mason County, TX	3,955	17.8 min	10.1%	7:07 AM
Blanco County, TX	12,446	27.3 min	15.7%	7:32 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Gillespie County, Texas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 113 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,502 at a typical national wage. That's 41% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Gillespie County, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Gillespie County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Gillespie County, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% 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).