Murphy Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Murphy, 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 Murphy: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Murphy spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 262 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 38% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 8.6 minutes.

Murphy 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 Murphy would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,248 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)
Murphy	31.4 min	62.9 min	262 hrs/yr	$8,119	3,392
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.

Murphy Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.4 minutes to get to work in Murphy. That's 40% 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 32.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Murphy

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

Walking is unusually rare in Murphy: 3.2 times less than the Texas average (0.5% vs 1.5%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Murphy: just 0.5%, 3.1 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Murphy, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Murphy 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.5%	6.4%	0.9%	0.3%	2.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	91.3%	5.7%	0.8%	0.1%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%
2011	90.4%	6.9%	0.8%	0.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2012	90.1%	7.1%	0.8%	0.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	89.8%	7.4%	0.9%	0.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	88.8%	7.5%	1.1%	0.6%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	87.5%	8.1%	1.5%	0.7%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	87.4%	8.2%	1.2%	0.9%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	87.1%	9.0%	1.1%	0.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	85.8%	10.1%	1.4%	0.4%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	86.8%	10.3%	1.1%	0.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	83.8%	14.6%	0.4%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	76.2%	21.6%	0.9%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	70.3%	27.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	66.7%	31.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	66.0%	32.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	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 2010 at 91.3%. Overall it fell from 89.5% in 2009 to 66.0% in 2024, down 23.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Murphy: its share of workers rose from 6.4% in 2009 to 32.6% in 2024, up 26.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 22.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 0.3% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Walking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Murphy

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Murphy?

The bars show when commuters in Murphy 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		1.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		4.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		18.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Murphy is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 18.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 10.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 49.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.7%) 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 Murphy, 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 Murphy 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 Murphy 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	Murphy	Texas	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:47 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:50 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:56 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:02 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Murphy were on the road by 8:02 AM, 21 minutes later than in 2009 (7:41 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Murphy now leave 24 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Murphy has moved 20 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Murphy in the whole series.

How does Murphy's commute time compare?

Metric	Murphy	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.4 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	32.6%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Murphy is 31.4 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Murphy, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Murphy, TX compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Murphy, TX	20,156	31.4 min #2/2	32.6% #1/2	8:02 AM #2/2
Sachse, TX	27,449	30.6 min	23.9%	7:55 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Murphy, Texas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 262 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,119 at a typical national wage. That's 38% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Murphy, 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.

Is Murphy, Texas a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 32.6% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Murphy would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,248 at the same national wage assumption used above.