Panola County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Panola County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Panola County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 175 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Panola 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 Panola County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,169 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)
Panola County	21.0 min	42.0 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,423	559
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 21.0 minutes to get to work in Panola County. That's 6% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 7.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Panola County

• Car: 91.3%
• Worked at Home: 7.1%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Other: 0.4%
• 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 Panola County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Panola County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Panola 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	93.0%	1.4%	3.2%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	92.3%	2.5%	3.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	94.0%	2.1%	2.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	94.6%	2.1%	1.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	95.1%	2.4%	1.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	95.6%	2.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.0%	2.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.7%	2.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.2%	1.7%	1.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.0%	1.9%	1.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.8%	2.0%	2.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.8%	2.3%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	95.3%	3.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.0%	3.4%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.2%	4.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.3%	7.1%	1.2%	0.4%	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 2015 at 96.0%. Overall it fell from 93.0% in 2009 to 91.3% in 2024, down 1.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Panola County: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 7.1% in 2024, up 5.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 1.2% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Panola County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Panola County?

The bars show when commuters in Panola 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 Panola County8.5% Texas5.5%	8.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Panola County2.3% Texas4.4%	2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Panola County7.1% Texas5.1%	7.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Panola County15.7% Texas9.3%	15.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Panola County7.1% Texas9.3%	7.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Panola County20.6% Texas15.3%	20.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Panola County8.9% Texas11.8%	8.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Panola County11.9% Texas11.5%	11.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Panola County2.9% Texas4.8%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Panola County2.4% Texas6.7%	2.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Panola County1.2% Texas3.1%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Panola County0.4% Texas1.3%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Panola County5.2% Texas5.8%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Panola County5.8% Texas6.2%	5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Panola County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 17.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 48.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (15.0%) 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 Panola 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 Panola 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 Panola 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	Panola County	Texas	United States
2009	7:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:02 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:01 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:04 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:06 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Panola County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:06 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Panola County now leave 24 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Panola County's commute time compare?

Metric	Panola County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.0 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	7.1%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Panola County is 21.0 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau