Medina County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Q: How much does the average commute cost workers in Medina County, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 256 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,923 at a typical national wage. That's 35% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

Q: When is rush hour worst in Medina County, Texas?

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

Q: Do people use public transit in Medina County, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Q: 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).

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Commute Time Burden in Medina County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Medina County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.9 minutes.

Medina County holds about 0.2% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Medina County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,169 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)
Medina County	30.7 min	61.3 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,923	2,009
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

Medina County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 30.7 minutes to get to work in Medina County. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 94% of counties in Texas

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 12.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Medina County

Public transit is unusually rare in Medina County: 10.3 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Medina County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Medina 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	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	93.9%	2.1%	2.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.3%	1.9%	2.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.8%	2.2%	2.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.4%	2.4%	2.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.0%	2.2%	2.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	94.8%	2.1%	1.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	93.8%	3.2%	1.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	94.1%	3.5%	1.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	94.1%	3.0%	1.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	94.8%	3.3%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.2%	3.6%	1.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.3%	5.6%	1.9%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.6%	6.7%	2.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.3%	9.2%	1.9%	1.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.1%	11.8%	2.0%	1.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	83.9%	12.6%	1.4%	1.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 94.8%. Overall it fell from 93.9% in 2009 to 83.9% in 2024, down 10.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Medina County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 12.6% in 2024, up 10.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.4% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2014 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Medina County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Medina County?

The bars show when commuters in Medina 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		7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Medina County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 19.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 48.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (15.1%) 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 Medina 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 Medina 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 Medina 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	Medina County	Texas	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Medina County were on the road by 7:13 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Texas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Medina County now leave 25 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 Medina County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Medina County's commute time compare?

Metric	Medina County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.7 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	12.6%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Medina County is 30.7 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Medina County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Medina County, TX is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 53,547 residents against a local median of 24,881. The measure that sets Medina County, TX apart most is one-way commute: 30.7 min, 33% above the local median of 23.0 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 12.6% against a local median of 9.5%, 33% above it. The counties themselves spread 25.7 min on one-way commute, so Medina County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Medina County, TX has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Medina County, TX	53,547	30.7 min #5/6	12.6% #3/6	7:13 AM #1/6
Bandera County, TX	22,021	38.6 min	9.5%	7:22 AM
Frio County, TX	18,582	16.3 min	1.7%	7:20 AM
Bexar County, TX	2,066,173	23.0 min	14.6%	7:35 AM
Uvalde County, TX	24,881	12.9 min	4.9%	7:49 AM
Kendall County, TX	48,567	28.8 min	21.6%	7:35 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Medina County, Texas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Medina County, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 256 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,923 at a typical national wage. That's 35% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Medina County, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Medina 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 Medina County, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).