Commuting in Kleberg County, Texas: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.
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Commute Time Burden in Kleberg County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Kleberg County spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 110 hours, about 4.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 42% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 9.6 minutes.
Kleberg County holds about 0.1% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Kleberg County would save about 44 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,363 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)
Kleberg County
13.2 min
26.4 min
110 hrs/yr
$3,407
1,697
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.
On average, it takes
13.2
minutes to get to work in
Kleberg County.
That's 41% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 78% 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 6.2% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Kleberg County
Car:
87.7%
Worked at Home:
6.2%
Walked:
4.0%
Other:
1.2%
Bicycle:
0.7%unusually high
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public transit is unusually rare in Kleberg County: 11.8 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Kleberg County, versus 0.2% in Texas.
Biking is unusually common in Kleberg County: 3.5 times more than the Texas average (0.7% vs 0.2%).
Commute Mode Trends in Kleberg County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Kleberg 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.
Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.Show commute mode data by year
Year
Car
Worked at Home
Walked
Other
Bicycle
Public Transportation
Motorcycle
Taxi
2009
91.4%
1.4%
3.7%
2.2%
0.9%
0.0%
0.5%
0.0%
2010
90.7%
1.7%
3.5%
2.3%
1.1%
0.2%
0.5%
0.0%
2011
91.9%
1.9%
3.3%
1.8%
0.3%
0.4%
0.4%
0.0%
2012
91.9%
1.7%
3.8%
1.4%
0.1%
0.6%
0.4%
0.0%
2013
90.9%
2.0%
4.9%
1.0%
0.5%
0.6%
0.1%
0.0%
2014
90.1%
2.1%
5.0%
1.1%
0.7%
0.6%
0.3%
0.0%
2015
90.2%
1.9%
6.0%
1.0%
0.7%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
2016
89.1%
1.8%
7.2%
0.6%
1.0%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
2017
89.1%
1.8%
6.8%
1.0%
1.0%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
2018
90.8%
1.7%
6.0%
0.9%
0.1%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
2019
90.9%
1.7%
6.0%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.5%
0.3%
2020
90.9%
1.1%
5.1%
1.8%
0.4%
0.0%
0.3%
0.5%
2021
89.5%
4.2%
4.0%
1.8%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2022
88.0%
5.5%
4.0%
1.3%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.3%
2023
88.0%
5.7%
3.8%
1.2%
0.8%
0.1%
0.0%
0.3%
2024
87.7%
6.2%
4.0%
1.2%
0.7%
0.1%
0.1%
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 91.9%. Overall it fell from 91.4% in 2009 to 87.7% in 2024, down 3.7 percentage points.
Working from home gained the most ground in Kleberg County: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 6.2% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.
Walking peaked at 7.2% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 4.0%.
Commute Start Times in Kleberg County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kleberg County?
The bars show when commuters in Kleberg 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 AMKleberg County12.3%Texas5.5%
12.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMKleberg County3.2%Texas4.4%
3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMKleberg County4.6%Texas5.1%
4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMKleberg County6.1%Texas9.3%
6.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMKleberg County8.8%Texas9.3%
8.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMKleberg County16.7%Texas15.3%
16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMKleberg County15.1%Texas11.8%
15.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMKleberg County14.2%Texas11.5%
14.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMKleberg County2.7%Texas4.8%
2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMKleberg County3.9%Texas6.7%
3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMKleberg County1.8%Texas3.1%
1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMKleberg County1.2%Texas1.3%
1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMKleberg County6.7%Texas5.8%
6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMKleberg County2.9%Texas6.2%
2.9%
Kleberg CountyTexasSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Kleberg County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 20.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 54.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.4%) 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 Kleberg 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 Kleberg 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 Kleberg 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.
Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.Show typical departure times by year
Year
Kleberg County
Texas
United States
2009
7:34 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:34 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:34 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:39 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:39 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:45 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:46 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:41 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:39 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:40 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:34 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:38 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:36 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:38 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:35 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:27 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Kleberg County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Kleberg County now leave 11 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 Kleberg County has moved 7 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Kleberg County in the whole series.
How does Kleberg County's commute time compare?
Metric
Kleberg County
Texas
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
13.2 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
6.2%
14.4%
15.0%
Walked
4.0%
1.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Kleberg County is 13.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.
0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 4.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.
Kleberg County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Kleberg County, TX is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 30,579 residents against a local median of 38,850. The measure that sets Kleberg County, TX apart most is one-way commute: 13.2 min, 25% below the local median of 17.7 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.
The counties themselves spread 9.5 min on one-way commute, so Kleberg County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Kleberg County, TX has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Kleberg County, Texas.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Kleberg County, Texas?
Commuters here spend an estimated 110 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,407 at a typical national wage. That's 42% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Kleberg County, Texas?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Kleberg County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
How common is public transit use in Kleberg County, Texas?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
Which counties in Texas have the fastest and slowest commutes?
Among counties in Texas, the shortest average commutes are in Loving County (3.3 min), King County (5.8 min), Terrell County (6.5 min). The longest are in Bandera County (38.6 min), San Jacinto County (35.9 min), Liberty County (33.6 min).