Hemphill County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hemphill County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hemphill County spend about 15 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 64 hours, about 2.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 66% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 15.1 minutes.

Hemphill 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 Hemphill County would save about 26 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $796 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)
Hemphill County	7.7 min	15.4 min	64 hrs/yr	$1,991	138
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 7.7 minutes to get to work in Hemphill County. That's 66% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hemphill County

• Car: 87.3%
• Worked at Home: 5.2%
• Other: 3.8%
• Walked: 3.3%
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Hemphill County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Hemphill County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.3%	5.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.6%	7.1%	0.4%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	88.7%	6.9%	0.7%	3.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	86.4%	8.1%	2.3%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	88.9%	7.9%	0.9%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.6%	5.3%	0.7%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.1%	3.8%	0.7%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.8%	3.0%	0.3%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.8%	3.6%	0.0%	4.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.7%	2.4%	0.0%	5.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.6%	4.1%	0.0%	7.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.0%	6.0%	0.0%	6.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.4%	5.2%	1.8%	5.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.1%	5.5%	2.2%	5.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.9%	5.8%	3.8%	5.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.3%	5.2%	3.8%	3.3%	0.4%	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 2016 at 94.8% and lowest in 2023 at 84.9%. Overall it fell from 94.3% in 2009 to 87.3% in 2024, down 7.0 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Hemphill County: its share of workers rose from 0.4% in 2009 to 3.3% in 2024, up 2.9 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 7.3% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 3.3%.

Commute Start Times in Hemphill County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hemphill County?

The bars show when commuters in Hemphill 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 Hemphill County3.2% Texas5.5%	3.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hemphill County6.8% Texas4.4%	6.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hemphill County2.5% Texas5.1%	2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hemphill County6.9% Texas9.3%	6.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hemphill County6.5% Texas9.3%	6.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hemphill County20.6% Texas15.3%	20.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hemphill County15.6% Texas11.8%	15.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hemphill County18.0% Texas11.5%	18.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hemphill County1.6% Texas4.8%	1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hemphill County8.4% Texas6.7%	8.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hemphill County2.7% Texas3.1%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hemphill County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hemphill County0.4% Texas5.8%	0.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hemphill County6.8% Texas6.2%	6.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hemphill County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 12.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 60.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.3%) 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 Hemphill 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 Hemphill 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 Hemphill 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.

• Hemphill County
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Hemphill County	Texas	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hemphill County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 18 minutes later than in 2009 (7:19 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Hemphill County now leave 1 minute 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 Hemphill County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Hemphill County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hemphill County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	7.7 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.2%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	3.3%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hemphill County is 7.7 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 3.3% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau