Commuting in Gregg 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 Gregg County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Gregg County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 142 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.7 minutes.
Gregg County holds about 0.4% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Gregg County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,762 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)
Gregg County
17.1 min
34.1 min
142 hrs/yr
$4,405
1,526
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.
On average, it takes
17.1
minutes to get to work in
Gregg County.
That's 24% 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 7.2% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Gregg County
Car:
90.7%
Worked at Home:
7.2%
Walked:
0.9%
Other:
0.6%
Motorcycle:
0.3%
Bicycle:
0.2%
Public Transportation:
0.2%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public transit is unusually rare in Gregg County: 5.0 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 0.9%).
Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Gregg County: 4.8 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).
Commute Mode Trends in Gregg County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Gregg 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
Motorcycle
Public Transportation
Bicycle
Taxi
2009
92.6%
3.2%
0.8%
2.5%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
2010
92.7%
3.0%
0.9%
2.5%
0.4%
0.2%
0.3%
0.0%
2011
93.1%
2.7%
0.9%
2.3%
0.3%
0.5%
0.2%
0.0%
2012
93.6%
2.5%
0.9%
1.8%
0.4%
0.5%
0.3%
0.0%
2013
93.9%
2.3%
1.3%
1.3%
0.3%
0.5%
0.2%
0.2%
2014
94.1%
2.0%
1.6%
1.2%
0.3%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
2015
94.5%
2.1%
1.6%
0.9%
0.3%
0.4%
0.0%
0.2%
2016
93.9%
2.6%
1.7%
1.1%
0.2%
0.3%
0.0%
0.2%
2017
93.7%
2.8%
2.0%
1.0%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
0.2%
2018
93.9%
3.2%
1.9%
0.8%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
94.4%
3.2%
1.7%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
2020
94.3%
3.8%
1.2%
0.4%
0.0%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
2021
94.2%
3.7%
1.3%
0.4%
0.0%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
2022
93.4%
4.6%
1.1%
0.5%
0.0%
0.2%
0.2%
0.0%
2023
92.2%
6.0%
0.8%
0.5%
0.2%
0.1%
0.3%
0.0%
2024
90.7%
7.2%
0.9%
0.6%
0.3%
0.2%
0.2%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 94.5%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 90.7% in 2024, down 1.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Gregg County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 7.2% in 2024, up 4.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking peaked at 2.0% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 0.9%.
Commute Start Times in Gregg County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gregg County?
The bars show when commuters in Gregg 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 AMGregg County6.4%Texas5.5%
6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMGregg County6.0%Texas4.4%
6.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMGregg County6.4%Texas5.1%
6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMGregg County6.5%Texas9.3%
6.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMGregg County8.1%Texas9.3%
8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMGregg County15.7%Texas15.3%
15.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMGregg County14.3%Texas11.8%
14.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMGregg County8.4%Texas11.5%
8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMGregg County5.3%Texas4.8%
5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMGregg County5.3%Texas6.7%
5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMGregg County2.8%Texas3.1%
2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMGregg County1.3%Texas1.3%
1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMGregg County6.6%Texas5.8%
6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMGregg County6.9%Texas6.2%
6.9%
Gregg CountyTexasSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Gregg County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 46.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.8%) 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 Gregg 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 Gregg 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 Gregg 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
Gregg County
Texas
United States
2009
7:35 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:35 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:34 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:33 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:34 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:33 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:33 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:32 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:32 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:29 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:25 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:25 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:26 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:24 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:25 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:32 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Gregg County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Gregg County now leave 6 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 Gregg County has moved 7 minutes later.
How does Gregg County's commute time compare?
Metric
Gregg County
Texas
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
17.1 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
7.2%
14.4%
15.0%
Walked
0.9%
1.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Gregg County is 17.1 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.
0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.
Gregg County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Gregg County, TX is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 125,481 residents against a local median of 52,842. The measure that sets Gregg County, TX apart most is one-way commute: 17.1 min, 18% below the local median of 20.8 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.
The counties themselves spread 10.3 min on one-way commute, so Gregg County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Gregg County, TX has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Gregg County, Texas.
Is commuting expensive in Gregg County, Texas?
Commuters here spend an estimated 142 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,405 at a typical national wage. That's 25% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Gregg County, Texas?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Gregg 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.
Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Gregg 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.
How do commute times compare across 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).