Harrison County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Harrison County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Harrison County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 150 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.7 minutes.

Harrison County holds about 0.2% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Harrison County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,865 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)
Harrison County	18.1 min	36.1 min	150 hrs/yr	$4,663	986
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 18.1 minutes to get to work in Harrison County. That's 19% 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 6.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Harrison County

• Car: 90.2%
• Worked at Home: 6.8%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Other: 1.2%
• 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 Harrison County: 30.6 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Harrison County: 5.9 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Harrison County: 65.1 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Harrison County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Harrison 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
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.0%	2.3%	2.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.8%	3.1%	2.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.8%	3.3%	1.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.2%	3.2%	1.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.0%	3.0%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.5%	3.3%	1.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.3%	3.3%	0.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	94.1%	3.2%	0.9%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.9%	3.8%	0.6%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.1%	4.4%	0.9%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.8%	4.3%	1.2%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.3%	4.1%	1.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.2%	5.1%	1.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.3%	6.0%	1.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.4%	6.2%	1.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.2%	6.8%	1.6%	1.2%	0.1%	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 peaked in 2013 at 95.0%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 90.2% in 2024, down 3.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Harrison County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 6.8% in 2024, up 4.5 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.4% to 1.6% of workers (down 0.8 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 Harrison County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Harrison County?

The bars show when commuters in Harrison 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 Harrison County6.5% Texas5.5%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Harrison County6.3% Texas4.4%	6.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Harrison County4.4% Texas5.1%	4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Harrison County9.0% Texas9.3%	9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Harrison County9.7% Texas9.3%	9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Harrison County17.4% Texas15.3%	17.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Harrison County12.6% Texas11.8%	12.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Harrison County8.5% Texas11.5%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Harrison County3.8% Texas4.8%	3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Harrison County6.4% Texas6.7%	6.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Harrison County2.0% Texas3.1%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Harrison County2.2% Texas1.3%	2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Harrison County4.2% Texas5.8%	4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Harrison County7.1% Texas6.2%	7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Harrison County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 17.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 48.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 Harrison 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 Harrison 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 Harrison 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Harrison County	Texas	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Harrison County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:23 AM). Texas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Harrison County now leave 13 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 Harrison County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Harrison County's commute time compare?

Metric	Harrison County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.1 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	6.8%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Harrison County is 18.1 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau