Commuting in Mason 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 Mason County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Mason County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 148 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.
Mason 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 Mason County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,841 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)
Mason County
17.8 min
35.6 min
148 hrs/yr
$4,603
146
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.
On average, it takes
17.8
minutes to get to work in
Mason County.
That's 20% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.1% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Mason County
Car:
86.9%
Worked at Home:
10.1%
Other:
1.3%
Walked:
1.0%
Bicycle:
0.7%unusually high
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Mason County, versus 0.1% in Texas.
Public transit is essentially absent in Mason County, versus 0.9% in Texas.
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Mason County, versus 0.2% in Texas.
Biking is unusually common in Mason County: 3.3 times more than the Texas average (0.7% vs 0.2%).
Commute Mode Trends in Mason County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Mason 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
Other
Walked
Bicycle
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
2009
77.3%
11.0%
3.4%
8.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2010
79.1%
10.8%
2.9%
6.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.7%
2011
82.0%
12.7%
0.0%
3.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.6%
2012
80.3%
14.9%
0.0%
2.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.8%
2013
85.1%
9.0%
0.0%
2.0%
1.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2.2%
2014
87.8%
6.9%
0.0%
2.1%
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
1.4%
2015
89.1%
5.3%
0.0%
3.9%
1.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
85.2%
8.1%
0.0%
5.0%
1.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
88.4%
4.5%
0.0%
5.6%
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
90.2%
4.8%
0.0%
5.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
86.1%
7.7%
0.0%
5.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.2%
2020
86.0%
7.7%
1.1%
3.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.4%
2021
88.7%
6.0%
1.3%
2.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.4%
2022
86.6%
7.7%
1.2%
2.4%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
1.3%
2023
79.7%
14.5%
1.2%
2.5%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
1.2%
2024
86.9%
10.1%
1.3%
1.0%
0.7%
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 2018 at 90.2%. Overall it rose from 77.3% in 2009 to 86.9% in 2024, up 9.6 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.
Biking gained the most ground in Mason County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 0.7% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.2% to 1.0% of workers (down 7.2 percentage points).
Working from home peaked at 14.9% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 10.1%.
Commute Start Times in Mason County
⏰Earlier AlarmsThe 2nd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Texas's 254 counties: the typical start is 48 minutes earlier than in 2009.
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mason County?
The bars show when commuters in Mason 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 AMMason County5.8%Texas5.5%
5.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMMason County4.7%Texas4.4%
4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMMason County7.0%Texas5.1%
7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMMason County10.2%Texas9.3%
10.2%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMMason County18.7%Texas9.3%
18.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMMason County16.4%Texas15.3%
16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMMason County18.7%Texas11.8%
18.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMMason County6.6%Texas11.5%
6.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMMason County1.4%Texas4.8%
1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMMason County1.3%Texas6.7%
1.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMMason County0.0%Texas3.1%
0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMMason County0.8%Texas1.3%
0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMMason County4.0%Texas5.8%
4.0%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMMason County4.4%Texas6.2%
4.4%
Mason CountyTexasSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Mason County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 18.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 17.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 60.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 10 commuters (10.5%) 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 Mason 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 Mason 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 Mason 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
Mason County
Texas
United States
2009
7:55 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:52 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:49 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:44 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:47 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:46 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:46 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:57 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:53 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:51 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:46 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:36 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:17 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:19 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:08 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:07 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Mason County were on the road by 7:07 AM, 48 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:55 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Mason County now leave 31 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 Mason County has moved 39 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Mason County in the whole series.
How does Mason County's commute time compare?
Metric
Mason County
Texas
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
17.8 min
22.8 min
22.4 min
Departure Window
06:30 AM – 06:59 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
10.1%
14.4%
15.0%
Walked
1.0%
1.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Mason County is 17.8 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.
Mason County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Mason County, TX is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 3,955 residents against a local median of 7,514. Nothing separates Mason County, TX sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.
The largest of those small differences is work from home, 11% below the local median at 10.1% against 11.4%. Mason County, TX has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Mason County, Texas.
Is commuting expensive in Mason County, Texas?
Commuters here spend an estimated 148 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,603 at a typical national wage. That's 22% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Mason County, Texas?
Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Mason 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.
Do people use public transit in Mason 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.
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).