Haltom City Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Haltom City, 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 Haltom City: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Haltom City spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 187 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Haltom City 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 Haltom City would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,314 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)
Haltom City	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,786	2,345
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.

Haltom City Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.4 minutes to get to work in Haltom City. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Haltom City

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Haltom City: 6.5 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Haltom City: 4.8 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Haltom City: 26.3 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Haltom City, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Haltom City 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.9%	1.2%	2.8%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2010	93.2%	1.7%	3.2%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2011	92.9%	1.6%	3.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	94.3%	1.3%	2.3%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	94.6%	1.8%	1.6%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2014	94.4%	1.9%	1.9%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2015	94.7%	1.7%	1.9%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2016	94.5%	2.3%	1.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2017	94.1%	2.7%	1.3%	1.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	94.4%	2.5%	1.1%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	94.6%	2.6%	0.6%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	94.3%	3.7%	0.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	92.7%	5.7%	0.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.6%	7.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.0%	8.3%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.9%	9.1%	0.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	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 2015 at 94.7%. Overall it fell from 93.9% in 2009 to 88.9% in 2024, down 5.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Haltom City: its share of workers rose from 1.2% in 2009 to 9.1% in 2024, up 7.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.8% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Haltom City

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Haltom City?

The bars show when commuters in Haltom City 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		4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.1%

Haltom City Texas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Haltom City is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 15.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 43.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.3%) 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 Haltom City, 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 Haltom City 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 Haltom City 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	Haltom City	Texas	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Haltom City were on the road by 7:24 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:20 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Haltom City now leave 14 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 Haltom City has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Haltom City's commute time compare?

Metric	Haltom City	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.4 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.1%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Haltom City is 22.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Haltom City, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Haltom City, TX is the 3rd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 45,218 residents against a local median of 71,246. Haltom City, TX's work from home, at 9.1%, runs 42% below the 15.8% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves sit within 2.0% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Haltom City, TX, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Haltom City, TX has the 4th highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Haltom City, TX	45,218	22.4 min #1/4	9.1% #4/4	7:23 AM #2/4
Watauga, TX	21,886	28.3 min	15.8%	7:21 AM
North Richland Hills, TX	71,246	25.3 min	15.8%	7:37 AM
Fort Worth, TX	922,591	23.4 min	13.8%	7:30 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Haltom City, Texas.

Is commuting expensive in Haltom City, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 187 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,786 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Haltom City, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Haltom City, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Haltom City, 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.