Hardin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hardin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hardin County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 254 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.6 minutes.

Hardin County holds about 0.2% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hardin County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,145 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)
Hardin County	30.4 min	60.9 min	254 hrs/yr	$7,862	1,160
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 30.4 minutes to get to work in Hardin County. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 92% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hardin County

• Car: 93.1%
• Worked at Home: 4.5% unusually low
• Other: 1.7%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Hardin County: 16.5 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Hardin County: 3.2 times less than the Texas average (4.5% vs 14.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Hardin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hardin 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
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.5%	2.2%	1.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	95.0%	2.4%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	95.8%	1.7%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	96.3%	1.4%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	96.4%	1.4%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	96.0%	2.1%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	96.1%	1.9%	0.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	96.1%	2.0%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	96.1%	1.9%	0.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	95.7%	2.5%	0.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.6%	2.5%	0.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	95.6%	3.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	95.5%	3.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	94.9%	3.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	94.1%	4.0%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2024	93.1%	4.5%	1.7%	0.7%	0.1%	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 2013 at 96.4%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 93.1% in 2024, down 1.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hardin County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 4.5% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Hardin County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hardin County?

The bars show when commuters in Hardin 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 Hardin County12.5% Texas5.5%	12.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hardin County8.0% Texas4.4%	8.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hardin County5.5% Texas5.1%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hardin County11.9% Texas9.3%	11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hardin County12.0% Texas9.3%	12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hardin County16.6% Texas15.3%	16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hardin County10.3% Texas11.8%	10.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hardin County6.0% Texas11.5%	6.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hardin County3.4% Texas4.8%	3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hardin County2.5% Texas6.7%	2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hardin County1.3% Texas3.1%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hardin County0.2% Texas1.3%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hardin County4.9% Texas5.8%	4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hardin County4.7% Texas6.2%	4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hardin County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 26.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 45.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.7%) 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 Hardin 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 Hardin 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 Hardin 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Hardin County	Texas	United States
2009	7:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:09 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:10 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:11 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:11 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:06 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:05 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:02 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:00 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hardin County were on the road by 7:00 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:06 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Hardin County now leave 38 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 Hardin County has moved 13 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Hardin County in the whole series.

How does Hardin County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hardin County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.4 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.5%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hardin County is 30.4 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.1% 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