Hood County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hood County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hood County spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 199 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Hood 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 Hood County would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,468 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)
Hood County	23.9 min	47.8 min	199 hrs/yr	$6,170	873
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 23.9 minutes to get to work in Hood County. That's 7% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 79% of counties in Texas

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 14.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hood County

• Car: 83.9%
• Worked at Home: 14.4%
• Other: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.8%
• 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 unusually rare in Hood County: 10.2 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Hood County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hood 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.9%	4.0%	0.7%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2010	93.1%	4.6%	0.2%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	92.4%	4.8%	0.5%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	92.1%	4.9%	0.5%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	93.0%	4.9%	0.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	93.0%	4.5%	0.7%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	91.8%	5.8%	0.8%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	93.2%	5.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	93.9%	4.5%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.5%	4.9%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.0%	5.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	92.9%	5.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	90.0%	8.1%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	88.1%	10.0%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	85.6%	12.8%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.9%	14.4%	0.9%	0.8%	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 peaked in 2017 at 93.9%. Overall it fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 83.9% in 2024, down 9.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hood County: its share of workers rose from 4.0% in 2009 to 14.4% in 2024, up 10.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.8% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Hood County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hood County?

The bars show when commuters in Hood 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 Hood County4.0% Texas5.5%	4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hood County7.5% Texas4.4%	7.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hood County6.6% Texas5.1%	6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hood County9.6% Texas9.3%	9.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hood County9.2% Texas9.3%	9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hood County16.4% Texas15.3%	16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hood County13.1% Texas11.8%	13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hood County8.7% Texas11.5%	8.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hood County5.2% Texas4.8%	5.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hood County4.9% Texas6.7%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hood County4.1% Texas3.1%	4.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hood County0.4% Texas1.3%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hood County4.7% Texas5.8%	4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hood County5.7% Texas6.2%	5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hood County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 18.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 47.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 Hood 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 Hood 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 Hood 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.

• Hood County
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Hood County	Texas	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hood County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). Texas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Hood County now leave 14 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Hood County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hood County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.9 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	14.4%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hood County is 23.9 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% 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