Johnson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Johnson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Johnson County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 260 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 37% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 8.4 minutes.

Johnson County holds about 0.6% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Johnson County would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,223 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)
Johnson County	31.2 min	62.4 min	260 hrs/yr	$8,058	1,816
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 31.2 minutes to get to work in Johnson County. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 95% of counties in Texas

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 7.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Johnson County

• Car: 91.6%
• Worked at Home: 7.0%
• Walked: 0.6%
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Johnson County: 12.6 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Johnson County: 148914747.2 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Johnson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Johnson 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	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.9%	2.3%	0.9%	1.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	94.6%	2.5%	1.0%	1.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	95.0%	2.4%	0.9%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.8%	2.6%	0.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	94.2%	3.1%	0.8%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	93.8%	3.5%	1.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.6%	3.9%	1.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.7%	3.8%	1.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	94.0%	3.7%	1.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.6%	3.2%	1.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	94.9%	3.2%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	95.5%	2.8%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.9%	3.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.6%	5.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	92.5%	6.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.6%	7.0%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2020 at 95.5%. Overall it fell from 94.9% in 2009 to 91.6% in 2024, down 3.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Johnson County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 7.0% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Johnson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Johnson County?

The bars show when commuters in Johnson 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 Johnson County6.0% Texas5.5%	6.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Johnson County4.1% Texas4.4%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Johnson County5.7% Texas5.1%	5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Johnson County8.4% Texas9.3%	8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Johnson County10.3% Texas9.3%	10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Johnson County22.8% Texas15.3%	22.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Johnson County16.4% Texas11.8%	16.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Johnson County6.6% Texas11.5%	6.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Johnson County3.1% Texas4.8%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Johnson County4.2% Texas6.7%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Johnson County1.6% Texas3.1%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Johnson County1.0% Texas1.3%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Johnson County4.1% Texas5.8%	4.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Johnson County5.8% Texas6.2%	5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Johnson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 15.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 56.1% 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 Johnson 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 Johnson 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 Johnson 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	Johnson County	Texas	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Johnson County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Johnson County now leave 17 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Johnson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Johnson County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.2 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	7.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Johnson County is 31.2 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau