Pasadena Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pasadena, 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 Pasadena: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pasadena spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 194 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Pasadena holds about 0.5% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pasadena would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,411 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)
Pasadena	23.3 min	46.7 min	194 hrs/yr	$6,027	2,707
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.

Pasadena Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.3 minutes to get to work in Pasadena. That's 4% longer 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 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pasadena

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Pasadena: 10.2 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Pasadena: 3.1 times less than the Texas average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Pasadena, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pasadena 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.9%	2.3%	1.5%	2.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.4%
2010	91.8%	2.3%	2.0%	2.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%
2011	92.2%	2.4%	1.7%	2.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%
2012	92.5%	2.3%	1.6%	2.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%
2013	93.3%	2.3%	1.4%	1.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	93.9%	2.3%	1.4%	1.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2015	94.4%	2.2%	1.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%
2016	94.4%	2.2%	1.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2017	94.1%	2.7%	1.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2018	93.1%	3.5%	1.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2019	92.2%	4.5%	1.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2020	90.2%	6.7%	1.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2021	89.4%	7.8%	1.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	88.2%	8.9%	1.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2023	88.3%	8.9%	1.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	88.6%	8.2%	1.3%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2015 at 94.4% and lowest in 2022 at 88.2%. Overall it fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 88.6% in 2024, down 4.3 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pasadena: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2024, up 5.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Pasadena

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pasadena?

The bars show when commuters in Pasadena 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		7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pasadena is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 21.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 42.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.8%) 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 Pasadena, 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 Pasadena 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 Pasadena 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	Pasadena	Texas	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:10 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:09 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pasadena were on the road by 7:15 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Texas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Pasadena now leave 23 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 Pasadena has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Pasadena's commute time compare?

Metric	Pasadena	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.3 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	8.2%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pasadena is about the same as in Texas.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pasadena, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Pasadena, TX compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pasadena, TX	149,372	23.3 min #3/3	8.2% #2/3	7:15 AM #3/3
Deer Park, TX	33,524	21.3 min	9.0%	7:10 AM
La Porte, TX	30,613	21.7 min	7.7%	7:08 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pasadena, Texas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 194 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,027 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

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

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

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Pasadena, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.