Midland County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Midland County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Midland 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 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.6 minutes.

Midland County holds about 0.6% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Midland County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,878 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)
Midland County	18.2 min	36.3 min	151 hrs/yr	$4,694	1,379
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 18.2 minutes to get to work in Midland County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Midland County

• Car: 91.8%
• Worked at Home: 5.3%
• Other: 1.3%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Midland County: 3.9 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Midland County: 3.9 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Midland County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Midland 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	94.9%	3.0%	0.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	94.9%	3.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2011	94.6%	3.4%	0.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2012	94.8%	3.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2013	93.9%	3.4%	1.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2014	94.2%	2.9%	1.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	94.7%	2.5%	1.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	95.1%	2.2%	1.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	94.9%	2.4%	1.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	95.1%	2.7%	0.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	94.6%	3.2%	0.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	93.2%	4.4%	0.8%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	92.6%	5.3%	0.7%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	92.0%	5.5%	1.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	91.8%	5.4%	1.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	91.8%	5.3%	1.3%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	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 2016 at 95.1%. Overall it fell from 94.9% in 2009 to 91.8% in 2024, down 3.1 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Midland County: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 5.3% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Midland County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Midland County?

The bars show when commuters in Midland 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 Midland County5.2% Texas5.5%	5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Midland County4.0% Texas4.4%	4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Midland County3.5% Texas5.1%	3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Midland County9.0% Texas9.3%	9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Midland County9.0% Texas9.3%	9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Midland County16.2% Texas15.3%	16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Midland County18.5% Texas11.8%	18.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Midland County13.9% Texas11.5%	13.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Midland County4.7% Texas4.8%	4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Midland County5.1% Texas6.7%	5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Midland County2.1% Texas3.1%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Midland County0.9% Texas1.3%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Midland County3.6% Texas5.8%	3.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Midland County4.2% Texas6.2%	4.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Midland County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 57.7% 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 Midland 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 Midland 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 Midland 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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• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Midland County	Texas	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Midland County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Midland County now leave 3 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Midland County's commute time compare?

Metric	Midland County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	5.3%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Midland County is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau