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Lynn County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lynn 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 Lynn County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lynn County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 182 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.

Lynn 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 Lynn County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,251 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)
Lynn County 21.8 min 43.6 min 182 hrs/yr $5,627 238
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.

Commute Time Map: Texas Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Texas
  1. Loving County (3.2 min)
  2. King County (5.8 min)
  3. Terrell County (6.5 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Texas
  1. Bandera County (38.6 min)
  2. San Jacinto County (35.9 min)
  3. Liberty County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Lynn County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.8 minutes to get to work in Lynn County. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lynn County

  • Car: 90.4%
  • Worked at Home: 7.9%
  • Walked: 1.2%
  • Other: 0.5%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Lynn County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lynn 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 Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 92.5% 4.2% 2.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0%
2010 92.0% 4.9% 1.9% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0%
2011 91.9% 6.0% 1.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2012 90.7% 6.6% 2.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2013 89.8% 6.0% 3.6% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 90.9% 5.0% 3.6% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 91.7% 4.5% 3.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 93.2% 2.9% 3.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 94.4% 2.7% 2.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 93.7% 3.9% 2.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 93.0% 3.9% 3.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 93.2% 4.3% 2.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 93.6% 3.8% 2.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 94.7% 4.0% 1.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 91.4% 6.9% 1.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 90.4% 7.9% 1.2% 0.5% 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. Its share was highest in 2022 at 94.7% and lowest in 2013 at 89.8%. Overall it fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 90.4% in 2024, down 2.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lynn County: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 7.9% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lynn County

  • Rush-Hour RegularsThe 3rd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Texas's 254 counties: 72.9% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lynn County?

The bars show when commuters in Lynn 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
1.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
6.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
16.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
22.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
20.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.2%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
0.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lynn County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 22.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 9.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 72.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 11 commuters (9.4%) 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 Lynn 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 Lynn 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 Lynn 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 Lynn County Texas United States
2009 7:39 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:42 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:40 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:42 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:42 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:44 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:44 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:40 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:40 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:36 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:40 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:43 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:43 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:42 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:45 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:36 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lynn County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 4 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 Lynn County 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 Lynn County has moved 4 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Lynn County in the whole series.

How does Lynn County's commute time compare?

Metric Lynn County Texas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 21.8 min 22.8 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 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 7.9% 14.4% 15.0%
Walked 1.2% 1.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Lynn County is 21.8 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lynn County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Lynn County, TX is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 5,752 residents against a local median of 11,629. The measure that sets Lynn County, TX apart most is work from home: 7.9%, 118% above the local median of 3.6%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 21.8 min against a local median of 13.4 min, 63% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 63% above the local median it puts Lynn County, TX at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 8.2% on work from home, so Lynn County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Lynn County, TX has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Lynn County, TX 5,752 21.8 min #6/6 7.9% #2/6 7:35 AM #3/6
Lubbock County, TX 318,883 15.4 min 7.3% 7:50 AM
Dawson County, TX 12,134 13.4 min 3.2% 7:39 AM
Garza County, TX 5,118 11.7 min 1.5% 7:36 AM
Terry County, TX 11,629 13.4 min 3.6% 7:25 AM
Borden County, TX 713 11.5 min 9.7% 7:29 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lynn County, Texas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Lynn County, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 182 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,627 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Lynn County, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Lynn County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Lynn County, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Texas?

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).