Jack County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Jack County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jack County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 172 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Jack 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 Jack County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,132 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)
Jack County	20.6 min	41.3 min	172 hrs/yr	$5,330	263
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 20.6 minutes to get to work in Jack County. That's 8% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 7.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jack County

• Car: 91.7%
• Worked at Home: 7.7%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Other: 0.1%
• 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 Jack County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Walking is unusually rare in Jack County: 3.8 times less than the Texas average (0.4% vs 1.5%).

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

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Jack County: just 0.4%, 4.3 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Jack County, 2009-2024

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

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.8%	4.3%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	92.2%	5.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2011	91.3%	5.0%	1.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
2012	91.0%	5.3%	1.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%
2013	92.4%	4.5%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2014	91.2%	5.3%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%
2015	93.4%	3.5%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	93.3%	5.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	93.6%	4.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	93.6%	5.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	92.5%	5.6%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	92.6%	5.3%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.2%	4.7%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.7%	6.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.8%	6.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.7%	7.7%	0.4%	0.1%	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 bottomed out in 2012 at 91.0%. Overall it fell from 93.8% in 2009 to 91.7% in 2024, down 2.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Jack County: its share of workers rose from 4.3% in 2009 to 7.7% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Jack County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jack County?

The bars show when commuters in Jack 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 Jack County10.0% Texas5.5%	10.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Jack County8.7% Texas4.4%	8.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Jack County2.4% Texas5.1%	2.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Jack County11.5% Texas9.3%	11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Jack County6.3% Texas9.3%	6.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Jack County24.7% Texas15.3%	24.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Jack County12.7% Texas11.8%	12.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Jack County8.2% Texas11.5%	8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Jack County1.3% Texas4.8%	1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Jack County5.4% Texas6.7%	5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Jack County1.2% Texas3.1%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Jack County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Jack County3.2% Texas5.8%	3.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Jack County4.4% Texas6.2%	4.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jack County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 24.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 21.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 51.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.1%) 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 Jack 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 Jack 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 Jack 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	Jack County	Texas	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:10 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jack County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:16 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Jack County now leave 24 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Jack County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jack County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.6 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	7.7%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jack County is 20.6 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau