Prosper Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Prosper: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Prosper spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 235 hours, about 9.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.4 minutes.

Prosper holds about 0.1% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Prosper would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,911 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)
Prosper	28.2 min	56.3 min	235 hrs/yr	$7,278	3,625
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.

Prosper Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.2 minutes to get to work in Prosper. That's 26% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 35.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Prosper

• Car: 62.6% unusually low
• Worked at Home: 35.0%
• Other: 2.1%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 23% less common in Prosper than the Texas average (62.6% vs 81.5%).

Walking is unusually rare in Prosper: 4.9 times less than the Texas average (0.3% vs 1.5%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Prosper: 918482402.9 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Prosper: 4443302.0 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Prosper: just 0.3%, 5.6 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Prosper, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Prosper 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	89.9%	7.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	85.2%	11.4%	0.0%	2.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.8%	10.9%	0.0%	1.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	85.3%	11.5%	0.3%	2.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	84.3%	12.6%	0.5%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	82.7%	12.8%	1.4%	2.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	85.5%	11.4%	1.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	84.9%	12.0%	1.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	84.5%	13.0%	1.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	83.3%	14.5%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	82.7%	15.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	79.0%	19.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	72.8%	25.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	66.7%	32.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	65.4%	33.0%	1.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	62.6%	35.0%	2.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 89.9% in 2009 to 62.6% in 2024, down 27.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Prosper: its share of workers rose from 7.7% in 2009 to 35.0% in 2024, up 27.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 19.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 2.8% in 2010 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Prosper

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Prosper?

The bars show when commuters in Prosper 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 Prosper2.2% Texas5.5%	2.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Prosper1.3% Texas4.4%	1.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Prosper2.7% Texas5.1%	2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Prosper9.2% Texas9.3%	9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Prosper8.7% Texas9.3%	8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Prosper17.1% Texas15.3%	17.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Prosper13.6% Texas11.8%	13.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Prosper17.1% Texas11.5%	17.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Prosper3.4% Texas4.8%	3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Prosper9.9% Texas6.7%	9.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Prosper0.8% Texas3.1%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Prosper1.3% Texas1.3%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Prosper5.5% Texas5.8%	5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Prosper7.1% Texas6.2%	7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Prosper is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 6.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 56.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.6%) 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 Prosper, 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 Prosper 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 Prosper 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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• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Prosper	Texas	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:49 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Prosper were on the road by 7:49 AM, 26 minutes later than in 2009 (7:23 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Prosper now leave 11 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 Prosper has moved 25 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Prosper in the whole series.

How does Prosper's commute time compare?

Metric	Prosper	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.2 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	35.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Prosper is 28.2 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau