Montgomery County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Montgomery County, 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 Montgomery County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Montgomery County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 251 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.3 minutes.

Montgomery County holds about 2.3% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 3.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Montgomery County would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,111 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)
Montgomery County	30.1 min	60.2 min	251 hrs/yr	$7,777	3,344
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

Montgomery County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 30.1 minutes to get to work in Montgomery County. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 90% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 15.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Montgomery County

Commute Mode Trends in Montgomery County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Montgomery 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.4%	4.9%	1.1%	0.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	91.2%	5.3%	1.0%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	91.0%	5.3%	1.1%	1.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	90.9%	5.2%	1.0%	1.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	90.9%	5.1%	1.1%	1.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	91.4%	5.0%	0.9%	1.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2015	91.5%	4.9%	0.9%	1.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	91.3%	5.2%	0.8%	1.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	91.2%	5.5%	0.8%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	90.8%	6.2%	0.8%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	90.1%	6.9%	0.8%	0.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2020	88.6%	8.4%	0.7%	0.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	86.8%	10.4%	0.7%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	84.8%	12.4%	0.8%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	82.8%	14.1%	1.1%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	80.7%	15.9%	1.4%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 91.5%. Overall it fell from 91.4% in 2009 to 80.7% in 2024, down 10.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Montgomery County: its share of workers rose from 4.9% in 2009 to 15.9% in 2024, up 11.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Montgomery County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Montgomery County?

The bars show when commuters in Montgomery 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		5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Montgomery County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 15.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 49.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.5%) 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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	Montgomery County	Texas	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Montgomery County were on the road by 7:21 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Texas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Montgomery County now leave 17 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Montgomery County's commute time compare?

Metric	Montgomery County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.1 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.9%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Montgomery County is 30.1 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.7% 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

Montgomery County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Montgomery County, TX is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 684,384 residents against a local median of 61,552. Montgomery County, TX's work from home, at 15.9%, runs 95% above the 8.2% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 5.4% on work from home, so Montgomery County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Montgomery County, TX has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Montgomery County, TX	684,384	30.1 min #3/6	15.9% #1/6	7:21 AM #4/6
San Jacinto County, TX	28,441	35.9 min	7.6%	6:55 AM
Walker County, TX	80,209	19.0 min	7.5%	7:31 AM
Harris County, TX	4,837,278	27.3 min	12.9%	7:28 AM
Grimes County, TX	31,340	32.7 min	8.2%	7:02 AM
Waller County, TX	61,552	30.9 min	11.1%	7:17 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Montgomery County, Texas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 251 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,777 at a typical national wage. That's 32% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Montgomery County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

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).