Madison County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Madison 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 Madison County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Madison County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 146 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.2 minutes.

Madison 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 Madison County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,813 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)
Madison County	17.5 min	35.1 min	146 hrs/yr	$4,534	543
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

Loving County (3.2 min)
King County (5.8 min)
Terrell County (6.5 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Texas

Bandera County (38.6 min)
San Jacinto County (35.9 min)
Liberty County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Madison County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.5 minutes to get to work in Madison County. That's 22% 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 11.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Madison County

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Madison County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Madison 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.7%	4.1%	2.9%	0.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	88.2%	5.4%	4.0%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	88.3%	4.9%	4.1%	0.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	86.3%	6.3%	4.7%	0.0%	2.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	89.1%	4.3%	4.1%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	87.3%	2.6%	7.9%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2015	88.6%	2.1%	7.6%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2016	89.5%	1.9%	7.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.7%
2017	88.8%	3.3%	7.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	89.9%	3.3%	6.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	93.7%	4.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.7%	4.6%	1.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.2%	6.0%	0.8%	1.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.0%	4.4%	1.5%	0.5%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.9%	8.4%	1.7%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.1%	11.3%	1.7%	1.0%	0.9%	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 peaked in 2019 at 93.7%. Overall it fell from 90.7% in 2009 to 85.1% in 2024, down 5.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Madison County: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 11.3% in 2024, up 7.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 1.7% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Madison County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Madison County?

The bars show when commuters in Madison 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		5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		20.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		1.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		0.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		8.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		2.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Madison County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 17.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 55.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.9%) 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 Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison 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	Madison County	Texas	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:03 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:58 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Madison County were on the road by 7:16 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Texas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Madison County 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 Madison County has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Madison County's commute time compare?

Metric	Madison County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.5 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	11.3%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Madison County is 17.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

1.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Madison County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Madison County, TX is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 13,648 residents against a local median of 31,340. Madison County, TX's work from home, at 11.3%, runs 51% above the 7.5% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 17.5 min against a local median of 22.0 min, 20% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 20% below the local median it puts Madison County, TX at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 4.9% on work from home, so Madison County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Madison County, TX has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Madison County, TX	13,648	17.5 min #2/6	11.3% #1/6	7:16 AM #4/6
Leon County, TX	16,263	22.6 min	5.9%	7:08 AM
Walker County, TX	80,209	19.0 min	7.5%	7:31 AM
Grimes County, TX	31,340	32.7 min	8.2%	7:02 AM
Brazos County, TX	242,290	16.5 min	10.7%	7:50 AM
Robertson County, TX	17,166	22.0 min	5.8%	7:16 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Madison County, Texas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 146 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,534 at a typical national wage. That's 23% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Madison 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).