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Commuting in Southlake, 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 Southlake: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Southlake spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 199 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Southlake 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 Southlake would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,465 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)
Southlake 23.9 min 47.7 min 199 hrs/yr $6,164 3,458
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.

Southlake Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.9 minutes to get to work in Southlake. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 29.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Southlake

  • Car: 68.3%
  • Worked at Home: 29.8%
  • Walked: 0.8%
  • Other: 0.7%
  • Taxi: 0.3%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Southlake: 49.5 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Southlake: 13.5 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Southlake, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Southlake 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 Motorcycle Public Transportation Bicycle
2009 86.3% 11.3% 1.0% 0.9% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0%
2010 85.6% 11.9% 0.9% 1.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
2011 85.6% 11.7% 0.9% 1.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
2012 85.9% 10.9% 1.2% 1.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
2013 85.9% 11.3% 0.8% 1.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3%
2014 86.0% 11.0% 0.9% 1.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.3%
2015 86.8% 10.5% 0.8% 1.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2016 86.2% 11.6% 0.8% 1.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2017 85.3% 12.5% 0.4% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2018 84.9% 13.0% 0.4% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2019 83.4% 14.4% 0.5% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2020 74.7% 23.2% 0.1% 1.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2021 72.5% 25.6% 0.1% 1.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2022 70.7% 27.8% 0.1% 1.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2023 68.5% 29.7% 0.5% 0.8% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2024 68.3% 29.8% 0.8% 0.7% 0.3% 0.1% 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 86.8%. Overall it fell from 86.3% in 2009 to 68.3% in 2024, down 18.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Southlake: its share of workers rose from 11.3% in 2009 to 29.8% in 2024, up 18.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 15.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Southlake

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Southlake?

The bars show when commuters in Southlake 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
1.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
2.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
5.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
6.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
17.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
14.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
19.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
11.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
4.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Southlake is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 19.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 5.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 57.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.6%) 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 Southlake, 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 Southlake 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 Southlake 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 Southlake Texas United States
2009 7:40 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:43 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:45 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:45 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:47 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:48 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:47 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:50 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:52 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:48 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:47 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:51 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:54 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:54 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:55 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2024 8:01 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Southlake were on the road by 8:01 AM, 20 minutes later than in 2009 (7:40 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Southlake now leave 23 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 Southlake has moved 14 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Southlake in the whole series.

How does Southlake's commute time compare?

Metric Southlake Texas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.9 min 22.8 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 29.8% 14.4% 15.0%
Walked 0.8% 1.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Southlake is 23.9 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Southlake, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Southlake, TX is the 3rd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 33,103 residents against a local median of 41,093. Nothing separates Southlake, 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 work from home, 14% above the local median at 29.8% against 26.1%. Southlake, TX has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Southlake, TX 33,103 23.9 min #3/4 29.8% #1/4 8:01 AM #3/4
Colleyville, TX 28,670 23.0 min 29.6% 8:01 AM
Keller, TX 41,093 27.4 min 26.1% 7:42 AM
Grapevine, TX 49,363 20.9 min 22.1% 8:01 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Southlake, Texas.

Is commuting expensive in Southlake, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 199 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,164 at a typical national wage. That's 5% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Southlake, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Southlake, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Southlake, 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 much money can remote workers save in Southlake, Texas?

About 29.8% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Southlake would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,465 at the same national wage assumption used above.