Schertz Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Schertz: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Schertz spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 231 hours, about 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Schertz holds about 0.1% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Schertz would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,867 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)
Schertz	27.7 min	55.5 min	231 hrs/yr	$7,168	3,119
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.

Schertz Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.7 minutes to get to work in Schertz. That's 24% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 17.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Schertz

• Car: 80.7%
• Worked at Home: 17.4%
• Other: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Schertz: 3.3 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

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

Biking is unusually rare in Schertz: 4.1 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Schertz, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Schertz 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	95.0%	3.0%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	95.7%	2.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	95.4%	2.5%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	95.7%	2.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	94.0%	3.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	92.7%	4.6%	0.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	93.1%	4.3%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	92.5%	5.0%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	92.7%	4.7%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	93.3%	4.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	93.6%	4.5%	0.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	89.7%	7.6%	0.5%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	87.3%	10.4%	0.5%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	85.3%	12.8%	0.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.9%	15.3%	0.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.7%	17.4%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%	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 2010 at 95.7%. Overall it fell from 95.0% in 2009 to 80.7% in 2024, down 14.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Schertz: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 17.4% in 2024, up 14.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Schertz

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Schertz?

The bars show when commuters in Schertz 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 Schertz4.6% Texas5.5%	4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Schertz4.1% Texas4.4%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Schertz5.9% Texas5.1%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Schertz11.9% Texas9.3%	11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Schertz12.7% Texas9.3%	12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Schertz15.2% Texas15.3%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Schertz10.3% Texas11.8%	10.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Schertz9.3% Texas11.5%	9.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Schertz4.9% Texas4.8%	4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Schertz5.0% Texas6.7%	5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Schertz2.7% Texas3.1%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Schertz1.5% Texas1.3%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Schertz4.6% Texas5.8%	4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Schertz7.5% Texas6.2%	7.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Schertz is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 14.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 47.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.3%) 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 Schertz, 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 Schertz 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 Schertz 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.

• Schertz
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Schertz	Texas	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Schertz were on the road by 7:22 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Schertz now leave 16 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 Schertz has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Schertz's commute time compare?

Metric	Schertz	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.7 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	17.4%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Schertz is 27.7 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% 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