Grayson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Grayson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grayson County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Grayson County holds about 0.5% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grayson County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,084 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)
Grayson County	20.2 min	40.3 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,210	1,177
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

Grayson County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.2 minutes to get to work in Grayson County. That's 10% 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 12.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grayson County

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Grayson County: 7.6 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Grayson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grayson 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	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.9%	3.7%	1.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	93.0%	3.6%	1.4%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	92.3%	4.2%	1.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	92.3%	4.2%	1.9%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	92.1%	4.4%	1.8%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	91.5%	5.2%	1.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	90.9%	5.6%	1.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	91.2%	5.1%	2.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	90.6%	5.9%	1.8%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	91.2%	5.5%	1.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	91.1%	5.5%	1.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	90.4%	6.6%	1.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	89.3%	8.0%	1.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	88.3%	9.0%	1.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	85.5%	11.2%	1.6%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	84.1%	12.6%	1.5%	1.2%	0.4%	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 peaked in 2010 at 93.0%. Overall it fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 84.1% in 2024, down 8.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grayson County: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 12.6% in 2024, up 8.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Grayson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grayson County?

The bars show when commuters in Grayson 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		4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grayson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 14.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 48.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.2%) 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 Grayson 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 Grayson 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 Grayson 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	Grayson County	Texas	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grayson County were on the road by 7:28 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Grayson County now leave 10 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 Grayson County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Grayson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Grayson County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.2 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	12.6%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Grayson County is 20.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Grayson County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Grayson County, TX is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 143,336 residents against a local median of 43,046. The measure that sets Grayson County, TX apart most is work from home: 12.6%, 30% above the local median of 9.7%.

The counties themselves spread 20.3% on work from home, so Grayson County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Grayson County, TX has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Grayson County, TX	143,336	20.2 min #2/6	12.6% #3/6	7:28 AM #4/6
Marshall County, OK	15,792	20.2 min	7.9%	7:15 AM
Collin County, TX	1,163,170	26.1 min	27.5%	7:50 AM
Cooke County, TX	43,046	20.8 min	7.2%	7:26 AM
Bryan County, OK	48,252	17.6 min	9.7%	7:39 AM
Fannin County, TX	37,326	27.5 min	13.5%	7:10 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Grayson County, Texas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 168 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,210 at a typical national wage. That's 12% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

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

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

Which counties in Texas have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).