Kyle Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Kyle, 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 Kyle: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kyle 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 9.3 minutes.

Kyle holds about 0.1% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kyle would save about 107 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,319 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)
Kyle	32.1 min	64.2 min	268 hrs/yr	$8,296	2,466
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.

Kyle Commute Map

On average, it takes 32.1 minutes to get to work in Kyle. That's 43% 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 13.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kyle

Walking is unusually rare in Kyle: 8.2 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 1.5%).

Biking is essentially absent in Kyle, versus 0.2% in Texas.

Few people walk or bike to work in Kyle: just 0.2%, 9.4 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Kyle, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kyle 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	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Walked	Bicycle
2009	92.5%	3.8%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	1.1%	1.7%	0.1%
2010	94.3%	3.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%
2011	93.1%	5.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%
2012	93.4%	5.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%
2013	94.0%	4.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	94.2%	4.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.3%	5.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	93.5%	4.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%
2017	92.9%	5.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.7%	0.3%
2018	92.8%	5.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.7%	0.2%
2019	92.2%	5.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.8%	0.4%
2020	91.6%	5.8%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.8%	0.3%
2021	91.0%	6.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%
2022	89.6%	8.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%
2023	86.4%	11.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2024	85.4%	13.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 94.3%. Overall it fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 85.4% in 2024, down 7.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kyle: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 13.4% in 2024, up 9.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Kyle

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kyle?

The bars show when commuters in Kyle 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		4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kyle is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 17.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 44.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.5%) 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 Kyle, 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 Kyle 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 Kyle 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	Kyle	Texas	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:10 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kyle were on the road by 7:16 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Kyle now leave 22 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 Kyle has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Kyle's commute time compare?

Metric	Kyle	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.1 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	13.4%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kyle is 32.1 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Kyle, Texas.

Is living in Kyle, Texas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 268 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,296 at a typical national wage. That's 41% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Kyle, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Kyle, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.