Reagan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Reagan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Reagan County spend about 17 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 70 hours, about 2.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 63% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 14.4 minutes.

Reagan 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 Reagan County would save about 28 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $865 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)
Reagan County	8.4 min	16.7 min	70 hrs/yr	$2,163	323
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 8.4 minutes to get to work in Reagan County. That's 63% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 94% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 5.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Reagan County

• Car: 86.8%
• Walked: 8.0% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 5.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Reagan County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Walking is unusually common in Reagan County: 5.4 times more than the Texas average (8.0% vs 1.5%).

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

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

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

Reagan County stands out for active commuting: 8.0% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.7 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Reagan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Reagan 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	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	92.5%	2.6%	4.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.5%	2.4%	4.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.4%	2.1%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.8%	2.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.4%	2.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2014	96.1%	1.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2015	94.9%	2.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2016	95.8%	2.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2017	95.0%	1.3%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2018	95.6%	1.4%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	94.6%	1.6%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2020	91.2%	2.5%	5.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2021	87.9%	2.8%	7.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2022	89.1%	5.3%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2023	84.2%	8.2%	5.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%
2024	86.8%	8.0%	5.2%	0.0%	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 was highest in 2014 at 96.1% and lowest in 2023 at 84.2%. Overall it fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 86.8% in 2024, down 5.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Reagan County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 8.0% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 7.9% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 5.2%.

Commute Start Times in Reagan County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Reagan County?

The bars show when commuters in Reagan 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 Reagan County6.9% Texas5.5%	6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Reagan County4.2% Texas4.4%	4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Reagan County3.1% Texas5.1%	3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Reagan County24.7% Texas9.3%	24.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Reagan County4.6% Texas9.3%	4.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Reagan County12.7% Texas15.3%	12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Reagan County17.9% Texas11.8%	17.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Reagan County15.3% Texas11.5%	15.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Reagan County2.5% Texas4.8%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Reagan County0.1% Texas6.7%	0.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Reagan County2.7% Texas3.1%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Reagan County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Reagan County4.5% Texas5.8%	4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Reagan County0.7% Texas6.2%	0.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Reagan County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 24.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 14.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 50.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 13 commuters (8.0%) 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 Reagan 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 Reagan 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 Reagan 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	Reagan County	Texas	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:03 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:05 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:00 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:56 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:56 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:01 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:03 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:57 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:40 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:40 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:55 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:01 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Reagan County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:10 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Reagan County 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 Reagan County has moved 34 minutes later.

How does Reagan County's commute time compare?

Metric	Reagan County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.4 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.2%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	8.0%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Reagan County is 8.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 8.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau