Kaufman County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Kaufman County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kaufman County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 268 hours, about 11.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 9.4 minutes.

Kaufman County holds about 0.6% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kaufman County would save about 107 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,327 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)
Kaufman County	32.2 min	64.4 min	268 hrs/yr	$8,319	1,581
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 32.2 minutes to get to work in Kaufman County. That's 44% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 12.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kaufman County

• Car: 85.5%
• Worked at Home: 12.5%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 0.4%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Kaufman County: 924.1 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Kaufman County: 179.8 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Kaufman County: 3.5 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Kaufman County: 3.9 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Kaufman County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kaufman 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	93.8%	3.8%	1.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	94.1%	3.8%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	94.6%	3.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	94.4%	3.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	94.6%	3.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	94.4%	3.6%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	94.4%	3.1%	0.6%	1.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	94.1%	3.3%	0.7%	1.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	94.1%	3.6%	0.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	94.1%	3.4%	0.5%	1.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	93.1%	4.6%	0.3%	1.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	92.6%	5.4%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	89.7%	8.5%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	88.0%	9.9%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	86.5%	11.5%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.5%	12.5%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	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 peaked in 2011 at 94.6%. Overall it fell from 93.8% in 2009 to 85.5% in 2024, down 8.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kaufman County: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 12.5% in 2024, up 8.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Kaufman County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kaufman County?

The bars show when commuters in Kaufman 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 Kaufman County7.9% Texas5.5%	7.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Kaufman County5.0% Texas4.4%	5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Kaufman County6.1% Texas5.1%	6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Kaufman County10.1% Texas9.3%	10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Kaufman County11.0% Texas9.3%	11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Kaufman County16.0% Texas15.3%	16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Kaufman County9.6% Texas11.8%	9.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Kaufman County9.1% Texas11.5%	9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Kaufman County4.2% Texas4.8%	4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Kaufman County5.3% Texas6.7%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Kaufman County3.2% Texas3.1%	3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Kaufman County1.1% Texas1.3%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Kaufman County4.6% Texas5.8%	4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Kaufman County6.7% Texas6.2%	6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kaufman County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 19.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 45.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.0%) 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 Kaufman 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 Kaufman 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 Kaufman 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	Kaufman County	Texas	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kaufman County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:15 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Kaufman County now leave 19 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 Kaufman County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Kaufman County's commute time compare?

Metric	Kaufman County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.2 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.5%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kaufman County is 32.2 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau