Gonzales County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Gonzales County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gonzales County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 179 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Gonzales 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 Gonzales County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,219 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)
Gonzales County	21.5 min	42.9 min	179 hrs/yr	$5,548	396
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 21.5 minutes to get to work in Gonzales County. That's 4% shorter 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 4.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gonzales County

• Car: 90.5%
• Worked at Home: 4.0% unusually low
• Walked: 3.6%
• Other: 1.9%
• 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 Gonzales County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Gonzales County: 3.6 times less than the Texas average (4.0% vs 14.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Gonzales County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gonzales 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	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.0%	2.7%	3.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	90.9%	3.0%	4.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	92.1%	2.9%	3.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	90.5%	4.2%	3.7%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	90.3%	4.2%	2.9%	0.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2014	90.1%	4.3%	2.5%	0.6%	2.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	91.1%	3.9%	2.5%	0.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	90.7%	3.8%	2.3%	1.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	92.1%	3.1%	2.3%	1.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	89.2%	4.0%	4.2%	1.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	90.4%	4.1%	3.5%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.6%	4.4%	3.1%	2.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	88.8%	4.3%	4.4%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.2%	3.9%	6.1%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.9%	3.1%	2.6%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.5%	4.0%	3.6%	1.9%	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 bottomed out in 2022 at 87.2%. Overall it fell from 93.0% in 2009 to 90.5% in 2024, down 2.5 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Gonzales County: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 4.0% in 2024, up 1.3 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 6.1% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 3.6%.

Commute Start Times in Gonzales County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gonzales County?

The bars show when commuters in Gonzales 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 Gonzales County7.8% Texas5.5%	7.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Gonzales County6.2% Texas4.4%	6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Gonzales County5.8% Texas5.1%	5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Gonzales County10.6% Texas9.3%	10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Gonzales County7.6% Texas9.3%	7.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Gonzales County17.1% Texas15.3%	17.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Gonzales County14.5% Texas11.8%	14.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Gonzales County8.5% Texas11.5%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Gonzales County1.5% Texas4.8%	1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Gonzales County4.9% Texas6.7%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Gonzales County1.4% Texas3.1%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Gonzales County1.6% Texas1.3%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Gonzales County5.6% Texas5.8%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Gonzales County6.9% Texas6.2%	6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gonzales County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 19.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 47.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.3%) 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 Gonzales 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 Gonzales 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 Gonzales 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	Gonzales County	Texas	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gonzales County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Gonzales County now leave 17 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 Gonzales County has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Gonzales County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gonzales County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.5 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	4.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	3.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gonzales County is 21.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 3.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau