Matagorda County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Matagorda 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 Matagorda County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Matagorda County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 171 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.3 minutes.

Matagorda County holds about 0.1% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Matagorda County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,115 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)
Matagorda County	20.5 min	40.9 min	171 hrs/yr	$5,287	700
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

Matagorda County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.5 minutes to get to work in Matagorda County. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Matagorda County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Matagorda County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Matagorda 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	91.9%	3.7%	3.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	91.6%	4.0%	3.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	92.3%	3.5%	3.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	93.8%	3.1%	2.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2013	94.5%	2.2%	2.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	94.1%	2.1%	2.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	94.5%	1.9%	2.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	94.8%	1.6%	2.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	93.6%	2.1%	2.2%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	92.8%	3.5%	1.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2019	94.3%	2.9%	1.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2020	93.8%	3.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%
2021	93.3%	4.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.8%
2022	94.5%	2.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%
2023	93.0%	4.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.9%
2024	91.5%	6.1%	0.9%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	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 2016 at 94.8%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 91.9% in 2009 and 91.5% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Matagorda County: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 6.1% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.6% to 0.9% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

Public transit overtook taking a taxi to become the 4th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Matagorda County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Matagorda County?

The bars show when commuters in Matagorda 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		10.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		15.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		2.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Matagorda County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 21.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 51.2% 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 Matagorda 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 Matagorda 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 Matagorda 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	Matagorda County	Texas	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:07 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:03 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:00 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:03 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:58 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:04 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:08 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Matagorda County were on the road by 7:08 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:11 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Matagorda County now leave 30 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 Matagorda County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Matagorda County's commute time compare?

Metric	Matagorda County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.5 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.1%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Matagorda County is 20.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Matagorda County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Matagorda County, TX is typical in size for this group, 36,329 residents against a local median of 41,794, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Matagorda County, TX apart most is work from home: 6.1%, 21% below the local median of 7.8%.

The counties themselves spread 12.9% on work from home, so Matagorda County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Matagorda County, TX has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Matagorda County, TX	36,329	20.5 min #3/6	6.1% #4/6	7:08 AM #1/6
Wharton County, TX	41,794	18.7 min	5.2%	7:17 AM
Jackson County, TX	15,152	23.9 min	7.8%	7:13 AM
Brazoria County, TX	391,275	30.6 min	10.8%	7:15 AM
Calhoun County, TX	19,868	16.2 min	4.9%	7:10 AM
Fort Bend County, TX	893,669	31.4 min	17.7%	7:34 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Matagorda County, Texas.

Is commuting expensive in Matagorda County, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 171 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,287 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Matagorda County, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Matagorda County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Which counties in Texas have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).