Mesquite Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Mesquite, 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 Mesquite: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mesquite spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 260 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 37% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 8.4 minutes.

Mesquite holds about 0.5% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Mesquite would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,222 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)
Mesquite	31.2 min	62.4 min	260 hrs/yr	$8,056	2,806
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.

Mesquite Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.2 minutes to get to work in Mesquite. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mesquite

Biking is unusually rare in Mesquite: 3.1 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Mesquite, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mesquite 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	95.6%	2.1%	0.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	95.3%	2.1%	0.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	94.9%	2.8%	0.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	94.8%	2.5%	0.6%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	93.8%	2.7%	0.5%	0.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	92.8%	2.8%	0.8%	0.9%	2.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	92.6%	2.6%	0.7%	0.8%	3.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2016	92.9%	2.0%	0.7%	0.7%	3.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	93.0%	2.4%	0.7%	0.6%	3.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	93.7%	2.3%	0.8%	0.7%	2.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	94.9%	2.3%	0.6%	0.6%	1.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	93.3%	4.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	91.9%	5.9%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	90.5%	7.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	89.3%	8.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	87.7%	9.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 95.6% in 2009 to 87.7% in 2024, down 7.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mesquite: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 9.8% in 2024, up 7.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Mesquite

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mesquite?

The bars show when commuters in Mesquite 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		6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mesquite is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 16.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 44.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.8%) 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 Mesquite, 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 Mesquite 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 Mesquite 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	Mesquite	Texas	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mesquite were on the road by 7:23 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:26 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Mesquite now leave 14 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 Mesquite has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Mesquite's commute time compare?

Metric	Mesquite	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.2 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.8%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mesquite is 31.2 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.6% 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

Mesquite, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Mesquite, TX compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Mesquite, TX	150,839	31.2 min #1/2	9.8% #1/2	7:23 AM #2/2
Balch Springs, TX	32,011	31.6 min	9.6%	7:08 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Mesquite, Texas.

Is living in Mesquite, Texas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 260 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,056 at a typical national wage. That's 37% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Mesquite, Texas?

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