Missouri City Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Missouri City, 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 Missouri City: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Missouri City spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 259 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 8.3 minutes.

Missouri City holds about 0.3% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Missouri City would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,217 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)
Missouri City	31.1 min	62.3 min	259 hrs/yr	$8,042	3,988
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.

Missouri City Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.1 minutes to get to work in Missouri City. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Missouri City

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Missouri City: 38.7 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Missouri City: 8.1 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 1.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Missouri City: just 0.3%, 5.1 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Missouri City, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Missouri City 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	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.6%	4.0%	0.8%	1.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2010	93.2%	3.9%	0.7%	1.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	92.5%	4.2%	0.6%	2.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	92.5%	4.0%	0.5%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	91.9%	4.6%	0.6%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	92.2%	4.3%	0.6%	2.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	92.5%	3.7%	0.6%	2.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	92.8%	3.7%	0.7%	2.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.1%	4.1%	0.7%	1.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	92.6%	4.7%	0.7%	1.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	92.5%	5.1%	0.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	89.3%	8.4%	0.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	88.0%	10.0%	0.4%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	86.0%	11.9%	0.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.6%	13.0%	1.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	83.0%	14.6%	1.1%	0.8%	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 2010 at 93.2%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 83.0% in 2024, down 9.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Missouri City: its share of workers rose from 4.0% in 2009 to 14.6% in 2024, up 10.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.8% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Missouri City

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Missouri City?

The bars show when commuters in Missouri City 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		5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Missouri City is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 12.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 51.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.1%) 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 Missouri City, 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 Missouri City 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 Missouri City 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	Missouri City	Texas	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Missouri City were on the road by 7:38 AM, 15 minutes later than in 2009 (7:23 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Missouri City now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Missouri City has moved 12 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Missouri City in the whole series.

How does Missouri City's commute time compare?

Metric	Missouri City	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.1 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	14.6%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Missouri City is 31.1 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Missouri City, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Missouri City, TX compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Missouri City, TX	83,037	31.1 min #1/3	14.6% #2/3	7:38 AM #3/3
Fresno, TX	20,405	32.1 min	11.5%	6:53 AM
Sienna, TX	22,341	33.6 min	20.6%	7:25 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Missouri City, Texas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Missouri City, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 259 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,042 at a typical national wage. That's 37% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Missouri City, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Missouri City, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.