Commuting in Hunt County, Texas: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.
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Commute Time Burden in Hunt County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Hunt County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way.
Hunt County holds about 0.4% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Hunt County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,365 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)
Hunt County
22.9 min
45.8 min
191 hrs/yr
$5,912
972
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.
On average, it takes
22.9
minutes to get to work in
Hunt County.
That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Slower than 74% of counties in Texas
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.1% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Hunt County
Car:
84.7%
Worked at Home:
10.1%
Walked:
2.7%
Other:
1.8%
Bicycle:
0.3%
Public Transportation:
0.2%unusually low
Motorcycle:
0.2%
Taxi:
< 0.1%
Public transit is unusually rare in Hunt County: 4.9 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 0.9%).
Commute Mode Trends in Hunt County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Hunt 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.
Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.Show commute mode data by year
Year
Car
Worked at Home
Walked
Other
Bicycle
Public Transportation
Motorcycle
Taxi
2009
93.0%
2.6%
2.6%
1.1%
0.0%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
2010
92.8%
2.9%
2.5%
1.1%
0.0%
0.4%
0.3%
0.0%
2011
93.4%
3.2%
1.9%
0.9%
0.1%
0.2%
0.4%
0.0%
2012
93.6%
3.2%
1.6%
1.0%
0.1%
0.2%
0.3%
0.0%
2013
93.2%
3.1%
1.9%
1.1%
0.2%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
2014
93.2%
3.0%
2.0%
0.9%
0.4%
0.1%
0.3%
0.0%
2015
93.2%
3.2%
2.2%
0.6%
0.6%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
2016
93.3%
3.3%
1.9%
0.7%
0.4%
0.0%
0.2%
0.1%
2017
93.1%
3.6%
2.1%
0.7%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
0.1%
2018
92.6%
3.9%
2.3%
0.8%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
0.1%
2019
92.7%
4.0%
1.8%
0.9%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
2020
91.8%
4.6%
1.9%
0.8%
0.2%
0.4%
0.1%
0.1%
2021
90.4%
6.0%
1.8%
1.0%
0.3%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
2022
88.6%
7.7%
1.8%
1.0%
0.2%
0.4%
0.3%
0.0%
2023
87.2%
8.8%
1.9%
1.0%
0.3%
0.5%
0.3%
0.0%
2024
84.7%
10.1%
2.7%
1.8%
0.3%
0.2%
0.2%
0.1%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 93.0% in 2009 to 84.7% in 2024, down 8.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Hunt County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 10.1% in 2024, up 7.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Commute Start Times in Hunt County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hunt County?
The bars show when commuters in Hunt 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 AMHunt County7.4%Texas5.5%
7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMHunt County4.8%Texas4.4%
4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMHunt County7.8%Texas5.1%
7.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMHunt County8.5%Texas9.3%
8.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMHunt County10.7%Texas9.3%
10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMHunt County15.4%Texas15.3%
15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMHunt County10.7%Texas11.8%
10.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMHunt County8.6%Texas11.5%
8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMHunt County4.4%Texas4.8%
4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMHunt County5.3%Texas6.7%
5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMHunt County2.5%Texas3.1%
2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMHunt County0.5%Texas1.3%
0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMHunt County6.4%Texas5.8%
6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMHunt County6.8%Texas6.2%
6.8%
Hunt CountyTexasSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Hunt County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 20.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 45.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.5%) 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 Hunt 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 Hunt 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 Hunt 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.
Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.Show typical departure times by year
Year
Hunt County
Texas
United States
2009
7:18 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
7:21 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:22 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:25 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:22 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:20 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:21 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:18 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:18 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:19 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:19 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:18 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:17 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:21 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Hunt County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:18 AM). Texas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Hunt County now leave 17 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 Hunt County has moved 3 minutes later.
How does Hunt County's commute time compare?
Metric
Hunt County
Texas
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
22.9 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
06:30 AM – 06:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
10.1%
14.4%
15.0%
Walked
2.7%
1.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Hunt County is about the same as in Texas.
0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.
Hunt County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Hunt County, TX is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 108,970 residents against a local median of 37,326. Where Hunt County, TX breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 25% below the local median of 13.5% at 10.1%.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 22.9 min against a local median of 27.5 min, 17% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 17% below the local median it puts Hunt County, TX at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 19.5% on work from home, so Hunt County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Hunt County, TX has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Hunt County, Texas.
Is living in Hunt County, Texas good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 191 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,912 at a typical national wage.
When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Hunt County, Texas?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Hunt County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
How common is public transit use in Hunt County, Texas?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
How do commute times compare across counties in Texas?
Among counties in Texas, the shortest average commutes are in Loving County (3.3 min), King County (5.8 min), Terrell County (6.5 min). The longest are in Bandera County (38.6 min), San Jacinto County (35.9 min), Liberty County (33.6 min).