Hudspeth County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hudspeth County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hudspeth 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 255 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 7.7 minutes.

Hudspeth 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 Hudspeth County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,156 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)
Hudspeth County	30.5 min	61.1 min	255 hrs/yr	$7,890	131
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 30.5 minutes to get to work in Hudspeth 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 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hudspeth County

• Car: 83.0%
• Worked at Home: 10.3%
• Walked: 5.4% unusually high
• Other: 1.4%
• 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 Hudspeth County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Walking is unusually common in Hudspeth County: 3.7 times more than the Texas average (5.4% vs 1.5%).

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

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

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

Hudspeth County stands out for active commuting: 5.4% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.2 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Hudspeth County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hudspeth 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	81.4%	4.8%	2.0%	10.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	85.1%	4.0%	3.1%	4.7%	1.5%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%
2011	90.6%	2.6%	1.3%	3.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2012	88.6%	4.8%	1.3%	4.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	87.7%	4.8%	0.8%	5.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2014	87.7%	6.7%	1.0%	4.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	83.9%	10.6%	1.5%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	84.7%	9.3%	3.5%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	84.5%	9.8%	3.8%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	79.3%	15.1%	5.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	80.4%	14.3%	4.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.6%	8.7%	3.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.0%	8.8%	4.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	82.3%	14.0%	3.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.0%	3.3%	8.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.0%	10.3%	5.4%	1.4%	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 2011 at 90.6% and lowest in 2018 at 79.3%. Overall it rose from 81.4% in 2009 to 83.0% in 2024, up 1.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hudspeth County: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 10.3% in 2024, up 5.5 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 15.1% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 10.3%.

Commute Start Times in Hudspeth County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hudspeth County?

The bars show when commuters in Hudspeth 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 Hudspeth County4.5% Texas5.5%	4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hudspeth County5.5% Texas4.4%	5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hudspeth County4.3% Texas5.1%	4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hudspeth County6.1% Texas9.3%	6.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hudspeth County2.1% Texas9.3%	2.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hudspeth County17.1% Texas15.3%	17.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hudspeth County19.4% Texas11.8%	19.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hudspeth County11.7% Texas11.5%	11.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hudspeth County2.5% Texas4.8%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hudspeth County8.2% Texas6.7%	8.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hudspeth County0.8% Texas3.1%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hudspeth County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hudspeth County9.7% Texas5.8%	9.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hudspeth County8.1% Texas6.2%	8.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hudspeth County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 14.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 50.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.7%) 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 Hudspeth 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 Hudspeth 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 Hudspeth 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	Hudspeth County	Texas	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:02 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:09 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:57 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:03 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hudspeth County were on the road by 7:46 AM, 31 minutes later than in 2009 (7:15 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Hudspeth County now leave 8 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Hudspeth County has moved 43 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Hudspeth County in the whole series.

How does Hudspeth County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hudspeth County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.5 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.3%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	5.4%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hudspeth County is 30.5 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 5.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau