Martin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Martin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Martin County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 167 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.

Martin 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 Martin County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,069 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)
Martin County	20.0 min	40.0 min	167 hrs/yr	$5,173	1,095
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

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On average, it takes 20.0 minutes to get to work in Martin County. That's 11% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 0.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Martin County

• Car: 94.7%
• Walked: 4.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.7%
• Worked at Home: 0.3% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Martin County: 42.1 times less than the Texas average (0.3% vs 14.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Martin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Martin 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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• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.8%	4.2%	0.3%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.1%	2.9%	0.8%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.2%	4.8%	0.9%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.9%	3.1%	0.3%	4.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.3%	0.7%	0.4%	6.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.3%	1.7%	0.0%	3.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.2%	3.5%	0.0%	4.4%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	90.5%	2.6%	0.0%	5.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.5%	3.4%	0.0%	3.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.3%	4.0%	0.0%	3.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.5%	3.8%	0.0%	4.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.0%	4.6%	0.0%	3.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.3%	5.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.8%	3.9%	0.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.8%	4.1%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.7%	4.2%	0.7%	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 94.8% and lowest in 2015 at 90.2%. Overall it rose from 92.8% in 2009 to 94.7% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 0.3% of workers (down 2.4 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Martin County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Martin County?

The bars show when commuters in Martin 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 Martin County2.0% Texas5.5%	2.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Martin County6.0% Texas4.4%	6.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Martin County3.5% Texas5.1%	3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Martin County25.1% Texas9.3%	25.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Martin County10.9% Texas9.3%	10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Martin County16.9% Texas15.3%	16.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Martin County11.6% Texas11.8%	11.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Martin County10.4% Texas11.5%	10.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Martin County1.6% Texas4.8%	1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Martin County3.0% Texas6.7%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Martin County4.8% Texas3.1%	4.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Martin County0.6% Texas1.3%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Martin County0.8% Texas5.8%	0.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Martin County2.7% Texas6.2%	2.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Martin County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 25.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 11.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 49.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.0%) 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 Martin 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 Martin 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 Martin 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Martin County	Texas	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:04 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Martin County were on the road by 7:04 AM, 18 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:22 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Martin County now leave 33 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 Martin County has moved 19 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Martin County in the whole series.

How does Martin County's commute time compare?

Metric	Martin County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.0 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	0.3%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	4.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Martin County is 20.0 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 4.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau