Lipscomb County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lipscomb County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lipscomb County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 132 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.9 minutes.

Lipscomb 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 Lipscomb County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,643 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)
Lipscomb County	15.9 min	31.8 min	132 hrs/yr	$4,107	162
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 15.9 minutes to get to work in Lipscomb County. That's 29% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 2.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lipscomb County

• Car: 96.1%
• Worked at Home: 2.1% unusually low
• Walked: 1.5%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Other: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Lipscomb County, versus 0.9% in Texas.

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Lipscomb County: 6.9 times less than the Texas average (2.1% vs 14.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lipscomb County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lipscomb 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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• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.0%	4.2%	3.2%	0.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.6%	4.4%	4.1%	1.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.6%	3.6%	3.9%	3.0%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.8%	2.6%	3.1%	2.6%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	88.2%	3.0%	2.4%	3.4%	2.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	91.5%	1.0%	2.2%	3.1%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	90.8%	1.5%	2.4%	3.5%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	93.3%	1.7%	3.2%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	93.7%	2.5%	3.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.0%	2.1%	3.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.2%	2.7%	2.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.4%	2.3%	1.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	96.8%	2.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	97.5%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	96.9%	1.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	96.1%	2.1%	1.5%	0.3%	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 was highest in 2022 at 97.5% and lowest in 2011 at 86.6%. Overall it rose from 91.0% in 2009 to 96.1% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 4.2% to 2.1% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Biking peaked at 3.5% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Lipscomb County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lipscomb County?

The bars show when commuters in Lipscomb 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 Lipscomb County1.6% Texas5.5%	1.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lipscomb County6.2% Texas4.4%	6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lipscomb County7.1% Texas5.1%	7.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lipscomb County9.6% Texas9.3%	9.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lipscomb County13.9% Texas9.3%	13.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lipscomb County19.9% Texas15.3%	19.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lipscomb County8.1% Texas11.8%	8.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lipscomb County14.8% Texas11.5%	14.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lipscomb County4.6% Texas4.8%	4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lipscomb County4.6% Texas6.7%	4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lipscomb County1.2% Texas3.1%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lipscomb County1.6% Texas1.3%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lipscomb County3.3% Texas5.8%	3.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lipscomb County3.4% Texas6.2%	3.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lipscomb County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 14.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 56.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.1%) 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 Lipscomb 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 Lipscomb 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 Lipscomb 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	Lipscomb County	Texas	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lipscomb County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Lipscomb County now leave 20 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 Lipscomb County has moved 17 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Lipscomb County in the whole series.

How does Lipscomb County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lipscomb County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.9 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.1%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lipscomb County is 15.9 minutes, shorter 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