Longview Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Longview, 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 Longview: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Longview spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 135 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.6 minutes.

Longview holds about 0.3% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Longview would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,672 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)
Longview	16.2 min	32.4 min	135 hrs/yr	$4,180	2,358
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.

Longview Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.2 minutes to get to work in Longview. That's 28% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 7.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Longview

Public transit is unusually rare in Longview: 7.6 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Longview: 4.7 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Longview, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Longview 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	92.8%	2.8%	0.7%	2.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	93.1%	2.6%	0.5%	2.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	92.7%	2.7%	0.6%	2.7%	0.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	94.0%	2.5%	0.5%	1.9%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	93.8%	2.5%	0.9%	1.5%	0.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%
2014	94.0%	2.2%	1.4%	1.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	94.3%	2.3%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%
2016	94.2%	2.5%	1.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	93.7%	2.7%	2.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	94.3%	2.8%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.9%	2.7%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.5%	3.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.5%	3.2%	1.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.3%	4.5%	1.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.4%	5.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.7%	7.1%	1.1%	0.6%	0.3%	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 2019 at 94.9%. Overall it fell from 92.8% in 2009 to 90.7% in 2024, down 2.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Longview: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 7.1% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.2% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 1.1%.

Commute Start Times in Longview

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Longview?

The bars show when commuters in Longview 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		7.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Longview is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 19.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 45.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.3%) 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 Longview, 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 Longview 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 Longview 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	Longview	Texas	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Longview were on the road by 7:36 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Longview now leave 2 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 Longview has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Longview's commute time compare?

Metric	Longview	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.2 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	7.1%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Longview is 16.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Longview, Texas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Longview, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 135 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,180 at a typical national wage. That's 29% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Longview, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Longview, 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.

Do people use public transit in Longview, 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.