Milam County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Milam County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Milam County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 212 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Milam 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 Milam County would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,627 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)
Milam County	25.4 min	50.8 min	212 hrs/yr	$6,567	672
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 25.4 minutes to get to work in Milam County. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 81% of counties in Texas

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 Milam County

• Car: 84.8%
• Worked at Home: 9.8%
• Walked: 2.2%
• Motorcycle: 1.8% unusually high
• Other: 1.4%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Milam County: 17.1 times more than the Texas average (1.8% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Milam County, versus 0.9% in Texas.

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Milam County: 3.7 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Milam County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Milam 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
• Walked
• Motorcycle
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Motorcycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	91.5%	3.3%	2.5%	0.8%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.9%	3.3%	2.0%	0.3%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2011	89.4%	3.9%	2.1%	0.0%	4.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	90.4%	3.1%	1.7%	0.1%	4.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	89.9%	3.9%	1.6%	0.1%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	89.9%	4.8%	1.3%	0.1%	3.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	91.6%	4.6%	1.1%	0.1%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.1%	3.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.2%	4.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.2%	4.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.0%	3.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.9%	5.3%	1.5%	0.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.8%	6.9%	1.6%	0.0%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.5%	7.0%	2.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.8%	9.4%	1.8%	0.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.8%	9.8%	2.2%	1.8%	1.4%	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 2016 at 95.1%. Overall it fell from 91.5% in 2009 to 84.8% in 2024, down 6.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Milam County: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 9.8% in 2024, up 6.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Milam County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Milam County?

The bars show when commuters in Milam 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 Milam County4.8% Texas5.5%	4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Milam County8.9% Texas4.4%	8.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Milam County7.4% Texas5.1%	7.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Milam County11.4% Texas9.3%	11.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Milam County7.8% Texas9.3%	7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Milam County19.0% Texas15.3%	19.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Milam County10.5% Texas11.8%	10.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Milam County8.5% Texas11.5%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Milam County1.6% Texas4.8%	1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Milam County4.4% Texas6.7%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Milam County2.5% Texas3.1%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Milam County0.9% Texas1.3%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Milam County7.6% Texas5.8%	7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Milam County4.7% Texas6.2%	4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Milam County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 21.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 45.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.1%) 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 Milam 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 Milam 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 Milam 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.

• Milam County
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Milam County	Texas	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Milam County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:17 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Milam County now leave 22 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 Milam County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Milam County's commute time compare?

Metric	Milam County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.4 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	2.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Milam County is 25.4 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 2.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau