Round Rock Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Round Rock, 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 Round Rock: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Round Rock spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Round Rock holds about 0.4% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Round Rock would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,376 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)
Round Rock	23.0 min	46.0 min	192 hrs/yr	$5,939	4,785
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.

Round Rock Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in Round Rock. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Round Rock

Public transit is unusually rare in Round Rock: 6.0 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Round Rock: 3.2 times more than the Texas average (0.5% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Round Rock: 3.3 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Round Rock, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Round Rock 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	Walked	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.3%	3.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%
2010	92.4%	5.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%
2011	92.0%	5.6%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
2012	91.9%	5.8%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2013	91.2%	6.6%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
2014	91.0%	6.7%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%
2015	91.3%	6.0%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.4%
2016	91.0%	6.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%
2017	90.3%	6.6%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%
2018	91.3%	5.9%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%
2019	90.4%	6.9%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%
2020	86.9%	10.7%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%
2021	82.9%	14.9%	1.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	78.8%	18.8%	1.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	75.4%	22.2%	1.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	73.1%	24.5%	0.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.3% in 2009 to 73.1% in 2024, down 21.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Round Rock: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 24.5% in 2024, up 20.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Round Rock

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Round Rock?

The bars show when commuters in Round Rock 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		4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Round Rock is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 11.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 46.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.6%) 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 Round Rock, 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 Round Rock 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 Round Rock 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	Round Rock	Texas	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:38 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:41 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:43 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Round Rock were on the road by 7:47 AM, 15 minutes later than in 2009 (7:33 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Round Rock now leave 9 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 Round Rock has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Round Rock's commute time compare?

Metric	Round Rock	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.0 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	24.5%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Round Rock is about the same as in Texas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Round Rock, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Round Rock, TX is the largest of the 5 cities compared here, 117,127 residents against a local median of 42,348. Nothing separates Round Rock, TX sharply from the cities around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 7% below the local median at 23.0 min against 24.8 min. Round Rock, TX has the lowest one-way commute of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Round Rock, TX	117,127	23.0 min #1/5	24.5% #3/5	7:47 AM #4/5
Brushy Creek, TX	20,558	23.0 min	31.3%	8:03 AM
Pflugerville, TX	63,868	28.0 min	25.6%	7:29 AM
Hutto, TX	20,828	26.5 min	17.5%	7:40 AM
Georgetown, TX	75,111	23.1 min	24.1%	7:37 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Round Rock, Texas.

Is living in Round Rock, Texas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 192 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,939 at a typical national wage. That's 1% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Round Rock, Texas?

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

Do people use public transit in Round Rock, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Is Round Rock, Texas a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 24.5% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Round Rock would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,376 at the same national wage assumption used above.