Motley County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Motley County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Motley County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 97 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 49% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 11.1 minutes.

Motley County holds about 0.0% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Motley County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,208 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)
Motley County	11.7 min	23.4 min	97 hrs/yr	$3,019	81
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.

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On average, it takes 11.7 minutes to get to work in Motley County. That's 48% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 85% of counties in Texas

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 13.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Motley County

• Car: 79.3%
• Worked at Home: 13.8%
• Walked: 6.6% unusually high
• Other: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Motley County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Walking is unusually common in Motley County: 4.5 times more than the Texas average (6.6% vs 1.5%).

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

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Motley County, versus 0.2% in Texas.

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

Motley County stands out for active commuting: 6.6% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.9 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Motley County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Motley 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	79.0%	13.9%	7.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	80.9%	13.5%	5.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	89.5%	8.2%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.8%	7.2%	3.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	89.4%	6.0%	4.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.6%	4.5%	3.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.6%	2.9%	4.0%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	90.5%	2.5%	5.1%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.2%	6.1%	3.9%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	86.6%	8.4%	3.6%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	86.5%	9.3%	3.0%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	88.5%	8.0%	2.3%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.1%	7.6%	4.1%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.5%	8.9%	3.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	81.4%	11.7%	6.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	79.3%	13.8%	6.6%	0.3%	0.0%	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 2014 at 91.6%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 79.0% in 2009 and 79.3% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.1% to 6.6% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 1.9% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Motley County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Motley County?

The bars show when commuters in Motley 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 Motley County0.0% Texas5.5%	0.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Motley County2.7% Texas4.4%	2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Motley County5.3% Texas5.1%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Motley County12.2% Texas9.3%	12.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Motley County10.1% Texas9.3%	10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Motley County14.9% Texas15.3%	14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Motley County23.0% Texas11.8%	23.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Motley County10.9% Texas11.5%	10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Motley County2.9% Texas4.8%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Motley County4.2% Texas6.7%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Motley County7.6% Texas3.1%	7.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Motley County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Motley County6.3% Texas5.8%	6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Motley County0.0% Texas6.2%	0.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Motley County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 23.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 8.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 58.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.1%) 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 Motley 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 Motley 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 Motley 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Motley County	Texas	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:49 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:00 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Motley County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:46 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Motley County now leave 2 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 Motley County has moved 18 minutes later.

How does Motley County's commute time compare?

Metric	Motley County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.7 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	13.8%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	6.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Motley County is 11.7 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 6.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau