Roberts County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Roberts County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Roberts County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 176 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.7 minutes.

Roberts 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 Roberts County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,181 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)
Roberts County	21.1 min	42.2 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,451	218
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 21.1 minutes to get to work in Roberts County. That's 6% shorter 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 walking. About 1.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Roberts County

• Car: 86.9%
• Walked: 7.0% unusually high
• Other: 4.4%
• Worked at Home: 1.8% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually common in Roberts County: 4.7 times more than the Texas average (7.0% vs 1.5%).

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Roberts County: 8.0 times less than the Texas average (1.8% vs 14.4%).

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

Roberts County stands out for active commuting: 7.0% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.1 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Roberts County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Roberts 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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• Walked
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• Worked at Home
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• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Other	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	78.3%	11.2%	0.0%	10.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	86.4%	6.7%	0.0%	6.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	90.7%	4.2%	0.0%	5.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.4%	2.3%	0.0%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.2%	1.7%	0.0%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.3%	1.2%	0.0%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.9%	1.5%	0.0%	5.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	1.5%	0.0%	5.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.4%	2.3%	0.0%	6.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.6%	3.3%	0.0%	5.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.7%	3.4%	0.0%	3.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	88.9%	8.9%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	81.7%	11.1%	5.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	82.2%	10.6%	4.3%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.9%	7.7%	4.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.9%	7.0%	4.4%	1.8%	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 peaked in 2013 at 95.2%. Overall it rose from 78.3% in 2009 to 86.9% in 2024, up 8.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 10.5% to 1.8% of workers (down 8.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Roberts County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Roberts County?

The bars show when commuters in Roberts 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 Roberts County1.8% Texas5.5%	1.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Roberts County3.7% Texas4.4%	3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Roberts County5.8% Texas5.1%	5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Roberts County7.9% Texas9.3%	7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Roberts County12.6% Texas9.3%	12.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Roberts County19.2% Texas15.3%	19.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Roberts County10.2% Texas11.8%	10.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Roberts County12.9% Texas11.5%	12.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Roberts County5.8% Texas4.8%	5.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Roberts County3.1% Texas6.7%	3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Roberts County4.5% Texas3.1%	4.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Roberts County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Roberts County0.3% Texas5.8%	0.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Roberts County12.3% Texas6.2%	12.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Roberts County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 11.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 54.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.2%) 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 Roberts 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 Roberts 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 Roberts 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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• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Roberts County	Texas	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:09 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Roberts County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:19 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Roberts County now leave 9 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 Roberts County has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Roberts County's commute time compare?

Metric	Roberts County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.1 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	1.8%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	7.0%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Roberts County is 21.1 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 7.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau