Kinney County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Kinney County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kinney County spend about 16 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 67 hours, about 2.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 65% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 14.8 minutes.

Kinney 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 Kinney County would save about 27 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $826 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)
Kinney County	8.0 min	16.0 min	67 hrs/yr	$2,065	60
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 8.0 minutes to get to work in Kinney County. That's 64% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kinney County

• Car: 73.8%
• Worked at Home: 16.4%
• Walked: 9.7% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

Walking is unusually common in Kinney County: 6.6 times more than the Texas average (9.7% vs 1.5%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Kinney County: 13.6 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

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

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

Kinney County stands out for active commuting: 9.7% of workers walk or bike to work, 5.8 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Kinney County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kinney 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
• Walked
• Public Transportation
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• Motorcycle
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• Other

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	91.1%	1.5%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%	0.8%	2.2%
2010	89.2%	3.8%	3.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	1.8%
2011	86.4%	6.0%	4.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.6%
2012	86.2%	8.2%	3.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
2013	84.6%	7.8%	1.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	5.2%
2014	84.2%	9.6%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	5.3%
2015	85.2%	9.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.4%
2016	86.0%	9.1%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.8%
2017	85.8%	7.3%	0.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	5.6%
2018	87.7%	10.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2019	87.9%	11.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	81.8%	15.5%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	78.4%	18.1%	3.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	83.0%	13.5%	3.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.0%	4.5%	5.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	73.8%	16.4%	9.7%	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. Overall its share fell from 91.1% in 2009 to 73.8% in 2024, down 17.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kinney County: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 16.4% in 2024, up 14.9 percentage points.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 1.9% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).

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

Working from home peaked at 18.1% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 16.4%.

Commute Start Times in Kinney County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kinney County?

The bars show when commuters in Kinney 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 Kinney County3.5% Texas5.5%	3.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Kinney County0.0% Texas4.4%	0.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Kinney County2.3% Texas5.1%	2.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Kinney County28.3% Texas9.3%	28.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Kinney County0.0% Texas9.3%	0.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Kinney County24.8% Texas15.3%	24.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Kinney County22.5% Texas11.8%	22.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Kinney County3.1% Texas11.5%	3.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Kinney County0.0% Texas4.8%	0.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Kinney County0.0% Texas6.7%	0.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Kinney County1.8% Texas3.1%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Kinney County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Kinney County1.0% Texas5.8%	1.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Kinney County12.8% Texas6.2%	12.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kinney County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 28.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 5.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 50.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.6%) 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 Kinney 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 Kinney 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 Kinney 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	Kinney County	Texas	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:54 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kinney County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 18 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Kinney 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 Kinney County has moved 52 minutes later.

How does Kinney County's commute time compare?

Metric	Kinney County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.0 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.4%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	9.7%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kinney County is 8.0 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 9.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau