San Augustine County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in San Augustine County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in San Augustine County 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 0.3 minutes.

San Augustine 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 San Augustine County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,382 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)
San Augustine County	23.1 min	46.1 min	192 hrs/yr	$5,956	309
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 23.1 minutes to get to work in San Augustine County. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 75% of counties in Texas

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 12.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in San Augustine County

• Car: 80.5%
• Worked at Home: 12.0%
• Walked: 4.5% unusually high
• Other: 3.0%
• 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 San Augustine County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Walking is unusually common in San Augustine County: 3.0 times more than the Texas average (4.5% vs 1.5%).

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in San Augustine County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.3%	1.0%	2.5%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%
2010	91.7%	2.3%	3.1%	2.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	93.3%	1.6%	2.5%	2.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	91.5%	1.8%	2.6%	3.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	93.6%	2.4%	2.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.1%	2.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	98.2%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.2%	2.1%	0.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.0%	3.0%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.3%	2.9%	0.6%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.0%	2.2%	0.8%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2020	88.9%	3.6%	4.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.8%
2021	89.5%	4.2%	4.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%
2022	86.8%	5.5%	4.2%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	1.0%
2023	84.9%	5.9%	5.2%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	1.2%
2024	80.5%	12.0%	4.5%	3.0%	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 peaked in 2015 at 98.2%. Overall it fell from 92.3% in 2009 to 80.5% in 2024, down 11.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in San Augustine County: its share of workers rose from 1.0% in 2009 to 12.0% in 2024, up 11.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

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

Biking peaked at 1.2% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in San Augustine County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in San Augustine County?

The bars show when commuters in San Augustine 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 San Augustine County9.3% Texas5.5%	9.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM San Augustine County4.3% Texas4.4%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM San Augustine County3.7% Texas5.1%	3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM San Augustine County12.9% Texas9.3%	12.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM San Augustine County9.8% Texas9.3%	9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM San Augustine County21.5% Texas15.3%	21.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM San Augustine County16.1% Texas11.8%	16.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM San Augustine County9.4% Texas11.5%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM San Augustine County2.9% Texas4.8%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM San Augustine County4.4% Texas6.7%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM San Augustine County0.0% Texas3.1%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM San Augustine County0.9% Texas1.3%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM San Augustine County2.1% Texas5.8%	2.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM San Augustine County2.7% Texas6.2%	2.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in San Augustine County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 17.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 56.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 10 commuters (10.0%) 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 San Augustine 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 San Augustine 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 San Augustine 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	San Augustine County	Texas	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in San Augustine County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in San Augustine County now leave 24 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does San Augustine County's commute time compare?

Metric	San Augustine County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.1 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	4.5%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in San Augustine County is about the same as in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 4.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau