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Commuting in Real County, 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 Real County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Real County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 99 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 48% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 10.9 minutes.

Real 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 Real County would save about 40 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,226 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)
Real County 11.9 min 23.7 min 99 hrs/yr $3,066 149
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.

Commute Time Map: Texas Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Texas
  1. Loving County (3.2 min)
  2. King County (5.8 min)
  3. Terrell County (6.5 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Texas
  1. Bandera County (38.6 min)
  2. San Jacinto County (35.9 min)
  3. Liberty County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Real County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 11.9 minutes to get to work in Real County. That's 47% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 83% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Real County

  • Car: 75.2%
  • Worked at Home: 24.4%
  • Public Transportation: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Other: < 0.1%

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

Walking is essentially absent in Real County, versus 1.5% in Texas.

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

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

Walking or biking to work is essentially absent in Real County, versus 1.7% in Texas.

Commute Mode Trends in Real County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Real 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.

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 Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle Walked Other
2009 79.8% 10.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 7.8% 1.5%
2010 77.7% 14.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 5.4% 2.3%
2011 76.6% 14.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 6.5% 2.8%
2012 75.1% 16.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 4.6% 4.0%
2013 72.0% 15.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 4.0% 8.8%
2014 68.3% 20.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 4.2% 7.1%
2015 70.2% 15.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 8.0% 6.1%
2016 70.0% 15.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 8.4% 6.3%
2017 76.5% 11.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 7.1% 5.0%
2018 78.0% 14.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 4.9% 2.5%
2019 78.4% 11.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.4% 7.1% 2.0%
2020 80.2% 13.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.8% 3.0% 2.2%
2021 83.8% 11.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 1.5% 3.4% 0.0%
2022 77.6% 16.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 1.5% 4.2% 0.0%
2023 77.2% 15.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 2.9% 4.0% 0.0%
2024 75.2% 24.4% 0.4% 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 2021 at 83.8% and lowest in 2014 at 68.3%. Overall it fell from 79.8% in 2009 to 75.2% in 2024, down 4.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Real County: its share of workers rose from 10.9% in 2009 to 24.4% in 2024, up 13.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.8% to 0.0% of workers (down 7.8 percentage points).

Biking peaked at 2.9% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Real County

  • Night OwlThe 3rd-latest start among Texas's 254 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 8:04 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Real County?

The bars show when commuters in Real 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
0.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
0.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
8.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
12.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
4.4%
7:00-7:29 AM
1.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
21.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
16.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
8.2%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
12.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
12.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Real County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 21.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 8.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 43.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.7%) 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 Real 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 Real 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 Real 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Real County Texas United States
2009 7:38 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:46 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:33 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:23 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:16 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:39 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:40 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:32 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:36 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:45 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 7:43 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:47 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:52 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2024 8:04 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Real County were on the road by 8:04 AM, 26 minutes later than in 2009 (7:38 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Real County now leave 26 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 Real County has moved 40 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Real County in the whole series.

How does Real County's commute time compare?

Metric Real County Texas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 11.9 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 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 24.4% 14.4% 15.0%
Walked < 0.1% 1.5% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.4% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Real County is 11.9 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Real County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Real County, TX is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 2,802 residents against a local median of 22,021. Where Real County, TX breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 157% above the local median of 9.5% at 24.4%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 11.9 min against a local median of 15.8 min, 25% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 25% below the local median it puts Real County, TX at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves sit within 9.1% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Real County, TX, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Real County, TX has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Real County, TX 2,802 11.9 min #2/6 24.4% #1/6 8:04 AM #6/6
Uvalde County, TX 24,881 12.9 min 4.9% 7:49 AM
Edwards County, TX 1,290 7.8 min 14.0% 7:20 AM
Kerr County, TX 53,489 16.6 min 10.2% 7:45 AM
Bandera County, TX 22,021 38.6 min 9.5% 7:22 AM
Kimble County, TX 4,389 15.8 min 6.3% 7:40 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Real County, Texas.

Is commuting expensive in Real County, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 99 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,066 at a typical national wage. That's 48% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Real County, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Real County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much money can remote workers save in Real County, Texas?

About 24.4% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Real County would save about 40 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,226 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Which counties in Texas have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Texas, the shortest average commutes are in Loving County (3.3 min), King County (5.8 min), Terrell County (6.5 min). The longest are in Bandera County (38.6 min), San Jacinto County (35.9 min), Liberty County (33.6 min).