Commuting in Scurry 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 Scurry County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Scurry County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 103 hours, about 4.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 46% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 10.5 minutes.
Scurry County holds about 0.1% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Scurry County would save about 41 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,272 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)
Scurry County
12.3 min
24.6 min
103 hrs/yr
$3,179
208
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.
On average, it takes
12.3
minutes to get to work in
Scurry County.
That's 45% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 82% of counties in Texas
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 working from home. About 4.3% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Scurry County
Car:
91.9%
Worked at Home:
4.3%unusually low
Walked:
2.9%
Other:
0.9%
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 Scurry County, versus 0.1% in Texas.
Public transit is essentially absent in Scurry County, versus 0.9% in Texas.
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Scurry County, versus 0.2% in Texas.
Working from home is unusually rare in Scurry County: 3.3 times less than the Texas average (4.3% vs 14.4%).
Biking is essentially absent in Scurry County, versus 0.2% in Texas.
Commute Mode Trends in Scurry County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Scurry 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
Walked
Other
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
94.4%
2.0%
2.1%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
0.6%
2010
92.6%
2.8%
2.1%
1.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.3%
0.5%
2011
94.0%
1.8%
1.7%
1.2%
0.1%
0.0%
0.3%
0.8%
2012
95.1%
1.3%
1.2%
1.2%
0.3%
0.0%
0.4%
0.6%
2013
94.8%
1.3%
1.5%
0.8%
1.1%
0.0%
0.5%
0.1%
2014
94.5%
2.1%
1.3%
0.8%
0.7%
0.0%
0.4%
0.1%
2015
95.4%
1.8%
1.3%
0.3%
0.9%
0.0%
0.2%
0.1%
2016
94.9%
2.0%
1.0%
0.4%
0.5%
0.1%
0.3%
0.8%
2017
95.0%
1.6%
1.0%
0.5%
0.3%
0.2%
0.5%
0.9%
2018
96.0%
1.3%
0.7%
0.7%
0.0%
0.1%
0.3%
0.9%
2019
96.4%
0.7%
1.1%
0.5%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
1.1%
2020
94.6%
2.1%
0.9%
0.8%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
1.5%
2021
95.2%
2.5%
1.2%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
93.7%
3.0%
2.3%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
92.7%
3.7%
2.7%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
91.9%
4.3%
2.9%
0.9%
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 2019 at 96.4%. Overall it fell from 94.4% in 2009 to 91.9% in 2024, down 2.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Scurry County: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 4.3% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.6% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.
Public transit peaked at 1.1% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.
Commute Start Times in Scurry County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Scurry County?
The bars show when commuters in Scurry 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 AMScurry County0.7%Texas5.5%
0.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMScurry County7.4%Texas4.4%
7.4%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMScurry County7.9%Texas5.1%
7.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMScurry County5.1%Texas9.3%
5.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMScurry County8.7%Texas9.3%
8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMScurry County22.4%Texas15.3%
22.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMScurry County13.6%Texas11.8%
13.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMScurry County14.2%Texas11.5%
14.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMScurry County5.0%Texas4.8%
5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMScurry County5.4%Texas6.7%
5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMScurry County4.8%Texas3.1%
4.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMScurry County1.3%Texas1.3%
1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMScurry County1.2%Texas5.8%
1.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMScurry County2.3%Texas6.2%
2.3%
Scurry CountyTexasSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Scurry County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 16.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 59.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.9%) 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 Scurry 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 Scurry 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 Scurry 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
Scurry County
Texas
United States
2009
7:16 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:28 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:19 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:15 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:17 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:13 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:10 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:15 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:26 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:31 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:33 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:36 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:31 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:32 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:30 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:27 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Scurry County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Scurry County now leave 11 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 Scurry County has moved 6 minutes earlier.
How does Scurry County's commute time compare?
Metric
Scurry County
Texas
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
12.3 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
4.3%
14.4%
15.0%
Walked
2.9%
1.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Scurry County is 12.3 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.
Scurry County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Scurry County, TX is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 16,488 residents against a local median of 3,655. Nothing separates Scurry County, TX sharply from the counties 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, 5% above the local median at 12.3 min against 11.7 min. Scurry County, TX has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Scurry County, Texas.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Scurry County, Texas?
Commuters here spend an estimated 103 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,179 at a typical national wage. That's 46% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Scurry County, Texas?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Scurry 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.
Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Scurry County, Texas?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
How do commute times compare across counties in Texas?
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).