Gray County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Gray County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gray County spend about 22 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 91 hours, about 3.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 52% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 11.8 minutes.

Gray 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 Gray County would save about 36 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,131 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)
Gray County	10.9 min	21.9 min	91 hrs/yr	$2,828	187
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 10.9 minutes to get to work in Gray County. That's 51% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 88% of counties in Texas

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 4.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gray County

• Car: 93.7%
• Worked at Home: 4.1% unusually low
• Other: 1.1%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Gray County: 3.4 times more than the Texas average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Gray County: 3.5 times less than the Texas average (4.1% vs 14.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Gray County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gray 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
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.7%	1.4%	1.6%	2.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	94.3%	1.7%	1.1%	2.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.7%	1.4%	1.3%	2.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.2%	1.6%	0.7%	2.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.5%	1.3%	0.5%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	97.1%	1.2%	0.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	97.0%	0.7%	0.8%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	96.3%	0.7%	1.2%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	96.0%	0.8%	1.5%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.4%	0.7%	1.2%	1.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.6%	0.5%	1.7%	2.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.9%	1.4%	1.2%	1.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.1%	2.6%	2.4%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.2%	3.7%	1.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.7%	3.7%	1.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.7%	4.1%	1.1%	0.7%	0.4%	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 2014 at 97.1% and lowest in 2021 at 93.1%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 93.7% in 2009 and 93.7% in 2024.

Working from home gained the most ground in Gray County: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 4.1% in 2024, up 2.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 0.7% of workers (down 2.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Gray County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gray County?

The bars show when commuters in Gray 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 Gray County6.1% Texas5.5%	6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Gray County7.2% Texas4.4%	7.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Gray County4.9% Texas5.1%	4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Gray County9.1% Texas9.3%	9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Gray County8.1% Texas9.3%	8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Gray County16.2% Texas15.3%	16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Gray County11.5% Texas11.8%	11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Gray County10.8% Texas11.5%	10.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Gray County4.5% Texas4.8%	4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Gray County4.4% Texas6.7%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Gray County3.1% Texas3.1%	3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Gray County1.4% Texas1.3%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Gray County3.8% Texas5.8%	3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Gray County8.8% Texas6.2%	8.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gray County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 18.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 46.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.7%) 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 Gray 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 Gray 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 Gray 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.

• Gray County
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Gray County	Texas	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gray County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Gray County now leave 11 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 Gray County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Gray County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gray County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.9 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	4.1%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gray County is 10.9 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau