Pharr Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pharr, 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 Pharr: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pharr spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 167 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.7 minutes.

Pharr holds about 0.2% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pharr would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,075 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)
Pharr	20.1 min	40.2 min	167 hrs/yr	$5,187	3,954
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.

Pharr Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.1 minutes to get to work in Pharr. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pharr

Public transit is unusually rare in Pharr: 4.9 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Pharr: 4.1 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is essentially absent in Pharr, versus 0.2% in Texas.

Commute Mode Trends in Pharr, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pharr 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	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.7%	2.6%	0.8%	1.5%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	94.1%	3.0%	0.4%	1.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	94.0%	3.3%	0.3%	1.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	95.0%	3.0%	0.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	94.6%	3.2%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	94.4%	3.1%	1.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	94.4%	2.9%	1.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	92.7%	3.4%	2.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	91.2%	3.5%	4.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	88.2%	5.0%	5.2%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.0%	5.8%	4.8%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.3%	6.3%	4.6%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.5%	5.4%	3.7%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.0%	6.6%	2.8%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.4%	6.2%	3.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.9%	6.5%	3.3%	1.0%	0.2%	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 was highest in 2012 at 95.0% and lowest in 2020 at 87.3%. Overall it fell from 93.7% in 2009 to 88.9% in 2024, down 4.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pharr: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 3.9 percentage points.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Pharr

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pharr?

The bars show when commuters in Pharr 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		4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		19.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pharr is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 10.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 53.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (28.7%) 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 Pharr, 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 Pharr 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 Pharr 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	Pharr	Texas	United States
2009	7:47 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:47 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:53 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:47 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:50 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:49 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:48 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:50 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pharr were on the road by 7:50 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:47 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Pharr now leave 12 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 Pharr has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Pharr's commute time compare?

Metric	Pharr	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.1 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	6.5%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pharr is 20.1 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pharr, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pharr, TX	72,563	20.1 min #2/3	6.5% #2/3	7:50 AM #1/3
San Juan, TX	34,977	20.2 min	5.7%	7:53 AM
McAllen, TX	146,716	18.2 min	11.9%	7:58 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pharr, Texas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Pharr, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 167 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,187 at a typical national wage. That's 12% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Pharr, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Pharr, 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 public transportation a realistic commute option in Pharr, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.