Jeff Davis County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Jeff Davis County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jeff Davis County spend about 21 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 90 hours, about 3.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 53% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 12.0 minutes.

Jeff Davis 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 Jeff Davis County would save about 36 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,110 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)
Jeff Davis County	10.7 min	21.5 min	90 hrs/yr	$2,776	65
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 10.7 minutes to get to work in Jeff Davis County. That's 52% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 89% 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 working from home. About 14.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jeff Davis County

• Car: 72.9%
• Worked at Home: 14.7%
• Walked: 7.5% unusually high
• Other: 4.6%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Jeff Davis County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Walking is unusually common in Jeff Davis County: 5.1 times more than the Texas average (7.5% vs 1.5%).

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

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

Jeff Davis County stands out for active commuting: 7.8% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.6 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Jeff Davis County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jeff Davis 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	73.6%	14.4%	9.3%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.8%
2010	74.0%	9.9%	11.0%	0.6%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	3.1%
2011	80.1%	8.6%	6.6%	0.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	3.4%
2012	80.0%	12.4%	5.2%	0.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	1.0%
2013	80.2%	13.9%	4.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	1.1%
2014	79.8%	13.5%	5.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2015	81.6%	14.0%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	80.8%	14.1%	5.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	83.8%	11.1%	5.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	84.5%	9.2%	6.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.4%	2.7%	6.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	82.5%	3.5%	11.1%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	68.7%	15.3%	12.5%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	64.4%	22.6%	9.3%	3.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	72.9%	15.4%	8.0%	3.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	72.9%	14.7%	7.5%	4.6%	0.3%	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 2019 at 90.4% and lowest in 2022 at 64.4%. Overall it fell from 73.6% in 2009 to 72.9% in 2024, down 0.7 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 9.3% to 7.5% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 22.6% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 14.7%.

Commute Start Times in Jeff Davis County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jeff Davis County?

The bars show when commuters in Jeff Davis 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 Jeff Davis County2.7% Texas5.5%	2.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Jeff Davis County6.6% Texas4.4%	6.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Jeff Davis County0.0% Texas5.1%	0.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Jeff Davis County14.0% Texas9.3%	14.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Jeff Davis County7.3% Texas9.3%	7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Jeff Davis County12.5% Texas15.3%	12.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Jeff Davis County18.9% Texas11.8%	18.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Jeff Davis County11.0% Texas11.5%	11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Jeff Davis County10.3% Texas4.8%	10.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Jeff Davis County9.5% Texas6.7%	9.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Jeff Davis County0.8% Texas3.1%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Jeff Davis County0.9% Texas1.3%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Jeff Davis County2.7% Texas5.8%	2.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Jeff Davis County2.8% Texas6.2%	2.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jeff Davis County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 9.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 49.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.7%) 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 Jeff Davis 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 Jeff Davis 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 Jeff Davis 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	Jeff Davis County	Texas	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:56 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:50 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:06 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:47 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:03 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:02 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:48 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:49 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jeff Davis County were on the road by 7:41 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:46 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Jeff Davis County now leave 3 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 Jeff Davis County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Jeff Davis County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jeff Davis County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.7 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	14.7%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	7.5%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jeff Davis County is 10.7 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 7.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau