Parmer County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Parmer County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Parmer County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 127 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 33% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.5 minutes.

Parmer 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 Parmer County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,576 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)
Parmer County	15.3 min	30.5 min	127 hrs/yr	$3,940	205
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 15.3 minutes to get to work in Parmer County. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 70% 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 2.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Parmer County

• Car: 95.7%
• Worked at Home: 2.6% unusually low
• Other: 1.2%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Parmer County: 3.9 times less than the Texas average (0.4% vs 1.5%).

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Parmer County: 5.5 times less than the Texas average (2.6% vs 14.4%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Parmer County: just 0.4%, 4.5 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Parmer County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Parmer 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	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.0%	6.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.2%	7.2%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	90.2%	7.5%	0.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.6%	5.9%	0.6%	2.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	90.6%	5.1%	0.6%	3.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	90.0%	5.6%	0.1%	3.5%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.5%	3.5%	1.5%	3.3%	0.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	91.2%	2.6%	2.4%	2.9%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	89.9%	2.9%	4.4%	1.7%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	89.6%	2.2%	4.8%	2.5%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.1%	2.0%	5.3%	2.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.7%	2.1%	4.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.9%	1.9%	3.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.4%	2.0%	1.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.8%	2.3%	1.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	95.7%	2.6%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	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 was highest in 2023 at 95.8% and lowest in 2018 at 89.6%. Overall it rose from 92.0% in 2009 to 95.7% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 6.7% to 2.6% of workers (down 4.1 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 3.5% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 0.4%.

Commute Start Times in Parmer County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Parmer County?

The bars show when commuters in Parmer 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 Parmer County10.1% Texas5.5%	10.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Parmer County4.8% Texas4.4%	4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Parmer County4.7% Texas5.1%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Parmer County5.8% Texas9.3%	5.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Parmer County5.3% Texas9.3%	5.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Parmer County15.8% Texas15.3%	15.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Parmer County17.2% Texas11.8%	17.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Parmer County12.9% Texas11.5%	12.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Parmer County2.8% Texas4.8%	2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Parmer County2.8% Texas6.7%	2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Parmer County0.3% Texas3.1%	0.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Parmer County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Parmer County11.2% Texas5.8%	11.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Parmer County6.3% Texas6.2%	6.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Parmer County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 19.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 51.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.6%) 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 Parmer 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 Parmer 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 Parmer 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	Parmer County	Texas	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Parmer County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Texas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Parmer 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 Parmer County has moved 21 minutes later.

How does Parmer County's commute time compare?

Metric	Parmer County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.3 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	2.6%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Parmer County is 15.3 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau