Irion County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Irion County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Irion County spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 228 hours, about 9.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.5 minutes.

Irion 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 Irion County would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,823 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)
Irion County	27.3 min	54.6 min	228 hrs/yr	$7,057	374
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 27.3 minutes to get to work in Irion County. That's 22% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 85% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 5.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Irion County

• Car: 82.5%
• Walked: 6.5% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 5.8%
• Public Transportation: 3.0% unusually high
• Motorcycle: 2.1% unusually high
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Irion County: 19.7 times more than the Texas average (2.1% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually common in Irion County: 4.4 times more than the Texas average (6.5% vs 1.5%).

Public transit is unusually common in Irion County: 3.5 times more than the Texas average (3.0% vs 0.9%).

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

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

Irion County stands out for active commuting: 6.5% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.9 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Irion County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Irion 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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• Walked
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• Other

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle	Other
2009	89.8%	1.1%	7.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%
2010	92.2%	1.9%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%
2011	90.2%	3.4%	5.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2012	84.9%	4.1%	7.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.2%
2013	82.7%	5.3%	9.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.6%
2014	79.7%	5.4%	13.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%
2015	80.3%	4.4%	13.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2016	82.8%	1.9%	13.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%
2017	83.8%	1.4%	13.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	87.4%	2.4%	9.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.4%	2.4%	8.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.6%	1.8%	9.0%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	85.6%	4.8%	8.7%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.7%	4.8%	6.4%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.6%	6.6%	7.6%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	82.5%	6.5%	5.8%	3.0%	2.1%	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 was highest in 2010 at 92.2% and lowest in 2014 at 79.7%. Overall it fell from 89.8% in 2009 to 82.5% in 2024, down 7.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Irion County: its share of workers rose from 1.1% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 7.4% to 5.8% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Irion County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Irion County?

The bars show when commuters in Irion 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 Irion County12.1% Texas5.5%	12.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Irion County5.8% Texas4.4%	5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Irion County3.5% Texas5.1%	3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Irion County16.0% Texas9.3%	16.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Irion County6.6% Texas9.3%	6.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Irion County14.8% Texas15.3%	14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Irion County23.9% Texas11.8%	23.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Irion County8.5% Texas11.5%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Irion County0.8% Texas4.8%	0.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Irion County4.4% Texas6.7%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Irion County1.3% Texas3.1%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Irion County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Irion County0.0% Texas5.8%	0.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Irion County2.3% Texas6.2%	2.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Irion County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 23.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 21.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 53.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 13 commuters (7.9%) 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 Irion 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 Irion 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 Irion 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	Irion County	Texas	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:54 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:59 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:52 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:54 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:12 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Irion County were on the road by 7:12 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Irion County now leave 26 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 Irion County has moved 36 minutes later.

How does Irion County's commute time compare?

Metric	Irion County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.3 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.8%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	6.5%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.0%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Irion County is 27.3 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

3.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Texas. 6.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau