Hamilton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hamilton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hamilton 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 94 hours, about 3.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 51% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 11.6 minutes.

Hamilton County holds about 0.0% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hamilton County would save about 37 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,160 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)
Hamilton County	11.2 min	22.5 min	94 hrs/yr	$2,900	229
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

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On average, it takes 11.2 minutes to get to work in Hamilton County. That's 50% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 87% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hamilton County

• Car: 91.5%
• Worked at Home: 7.0%
• Walked: 1.3%
• Other: 0.2%
• 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 Hamilton County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Hamilton County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hamilton 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
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.5%	4.2%	2.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.1%	4.5%	2.6%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.4%	3.4%	3.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	94.0%	2.5%	2.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	92.2%	3.5%	3.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	93.5%	3.4%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	90.0%	3.6%	5.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	90.7%	4.3%	4.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	88.5%	5.4%	6.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	88.5%	4.4%	6.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.0%	4.7%	7.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.5%	4.0%	3.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.1%	3.8%	3.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.4%	4.8%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.0%	5.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.5%	7.0%	1.3%	0.2%	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 was highest in 2012 at 94.0% and lowest in 2019 at 88.0%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 91.5% in 2009 and 91.5% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hamilton County: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 7.0% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.8% to 1.3% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Hamilton County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hamilton County?

The bars show when commuters in Hamilton 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 Hamilton County2.6% Texas5.5%	2.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hamilton County1.9% Texas4.4%	1.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hamilton County4.4% Texas5.1%	4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hamilton County13.7% Texas9.3%	13.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hamilton County17.2% Texas9.3%	17.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hamilton County19.5% Texas15.3%	19.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hamilton County11.2% Texas11.8%	11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hamilton County8.1% Texas11.5%	8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hamilton County2.9% Texas4.8%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hamilton County3.7% Texas6.7%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hamilton County3.3% Texas3.1%	3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hamilton County0.2% Texas1.3%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hamilton County7.6% Texas5.8%	7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hamilton County3.8% Texas6.2%	3.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hamilton County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 8.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 56.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.6%) 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 Hamilton 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 Hamilton 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 Hamilton 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.

• Hamilton County
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Hamilton County	Texas	United States
2009	7:28 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	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hamilton County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Hamilton County now leave 22 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 Hamilton County has moved 23 minutes earlier.

How does Hamilton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hamilton County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.2 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hamilton County is 11.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau