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Commuting in Socorro, 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 Socorro: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Socorro spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.

Socorro holds about 0.1% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Socorro would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,445 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)
Socorro 23.7 min 47.3 min 197 hrs/yr $6,112 2,792
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.

Socorro Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Socorro. That's 6% 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 7.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Socorro

  • Car: 91.6%
  • Worked at Home: 7.2%
  • Public Transportation: 0.7%
  • Other: 0.4%
  • Walked: 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Socorro: 10.9 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 1.5%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Socorro: 4.7 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Socorro: just 0.2%, 9.3 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Socorro, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Socorro 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 Public Transportation Other Walked Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 90.7% 3.2% 0.0% 4.2% 1.6% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2010 91.0% 2.2% 0.5% 4.8% 1.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2011 91.2% 2.6% 0.7% 4.4% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2012 89.5% 2.5% 0.9% 5.6% 1.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2013 89.3% 2.8% 1.1% 5.5% 1.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2014 90.8% 3.4% 0.9% 3.9% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2015 91.1% 3.6% 0.3% 3.7% 1.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1%
2016 91.3% 4.2% 0.4% 2.9% 0.9% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2017 90.4% 5.9% 0.4% 2.1% 1.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2018 90.6% 5.6% 0.2% 2.5% 0.9% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2019 90.5% 5.4% 0.3% 3.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2020 90.1% 5.4% 1.2% 2.5% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 90.0% 6.3% 1.0% 2.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 91.8% 5.4% 1.2% 1.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 91.8% 6.4% 1.0% 0.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 91.6% 7.2% 0.7% 0.4% 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 was highest in 2022 at 91.8% and lowest in 2013 at 89.3%. Overall it rose from 90.7% in 2009 to 91.6% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Socorro: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 7.2% in 2024, up 4.0 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.1% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Socorro

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Socorro?

The bars show when commuters in Socorro 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
8.5%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.4%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
12.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
8.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Socorro is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 20.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 47.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.0%) 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 Socorro, 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 Socorro 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 Socorro 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 Socorro Texas United States
2009 7:23 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:22 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:24 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:25 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:24 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:19 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:20 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:20 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:21 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:24 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:25 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:23 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:24 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:23 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:15 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:12 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Socorro were on the road by 7:12 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Socorro now leave 26 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 Socorro has moved 13 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Socorro in the whole series.

How does Socorro's commute time compare?

Metric Socorro Texas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.7 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 7.2% 14.4% 15.0%
Walked 0.1% 1.5% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.7% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Socorro is 23.7 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Socorro, Texas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 197 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,112 at a typical national wage. That's 4% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Socorro, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.