Texas City Commute Time Map & Patterns
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Commute Time Burden in Texas City: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Texas City spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way.
Texas City holds about 0.2% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Texas City would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,363 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas City | 22.9 min | 45.7 min | 191 hrs/yr | $5,909 | 2,060 |
| 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.
Texas City Commute Map
On average, it takes 22.9 minutes to get to work in Texas City. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.6% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Texas City
- Car: 90.3%
- Worked at Home: 6.6%
- Walked: 1.4%
- Other: 0.9%
- Public Transportation: 0.6%
- Motorcycle: 0.2%
- Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
- Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Texas City: 5.6 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).
Biking is essentially absent in Texas City, versus 0.2% in Texas.
Commute Mode Trends in Texas City, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Texas City 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.
Show commute mode data by year
| Year | Car | Worked at Home | Walked | Other | Public Transportation | Motorcycle | Taxi | Bicycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 91.5% | 1.2% | 1.8% | 4.5% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.5% |
| 2010 | 91.0% | 1.6% | 2.0% | 4.1% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.4% |
| 2011 | 91.6% | 1.6% | 2.0% | 3.6% | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.4% |
| 2012 | 92.2% | 1.6% | 2.3% | 2.5% | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.3% |
| 2013 | 93.1% | 1.5% | 2.2% | 1.9% | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.3% |
| 2014 | 94.2% | 1.6% | 2.0% | 1.2% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.2% |
| 2015 | 93.6% | 1.5% | 2.0% | 1.8% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| 2016 | 93.4% | 2.1% | 1.9% | 1.3% | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.4% |
| 2017 | 93.7% | 2.1% | 1.6% | 1.5% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.5% |
| 2018 | 94.1% | 2.3% | 1.5% | 1.1% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.4% |
| 2019 | 93.8% | 2.5% | 1.5% | 1.0% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.7% |
| 2020 | 93.2% | 3.3% | 1.4% | 0.3% | 1.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.6% |
| 2021 | 92.7% | 3.7% | 1.8% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 92.6% | 4.3% | 1.1% | 0.7% | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.7% |
| 2023 | 91.5% | 5.0% | 1.6% | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.5% |
| 2024 | 90.3% | 6.6% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 0.6% | 0.2% | 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 2014 at 94.2%. Overall it fell from 91.5% in 2009 to 90.3% in 2024, down 1.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Texas City: its share of workers rose from 1.2% in 2009 to 6.6% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Texas City
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Texas City?
The bars show when commuters in Texas City 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
Texas City8.9%
Texas5.5%
|
8.9% |
|---|---|---|
| 5:00-5:29 AM |
5:00-5:29 AM
Texas City5.1%
Texas4.4%
|
5.1% |
| 5:30-5:59 AM |
5:30-5:59 AM
Texas City8.3%
Texas5.1%
|
8.3% |
| 6:00-6:29 AM |
6:00-6:29 AM
Texas City10.1%
Texas9.3%
|
10.1% |
| 6:30-6:59 AM |
6:30-6:59 AM
Texas City8.8%
Texas9.3%
|
8.8% |
| 7:00-7:29 AM |
7:00-7:29 AM
Texas City15.7%
Texas15.3%
|
15.7% |
| 7:30-7:59 AM |
7:30-7:59 AM
Texas City9.1%
Texas11.8%
|
9.1% |
| 8:00-8:29 AM |
8:00-8:29 AM
Texas City7.1%
Texas11.5%
|
7.1% |
| 8:30-8:59 AM |
8:30-8:59 AM
Texas City4.4%
Texas4.8%
|
4.4% |
| 9:00-9:59 AM |
9:00-9:59 AM
Texas City4.0%
Texas6.7%
|
4.0% |
| 10:00-10:59 AM |
10:00-10:59 AM
Texas City2.9%
Texas3.1%
|
2.9% |
| 11:00-11:59 AM |
11:00-11:59 AM
Texas City1.4%
Texas1.3%
|
1.4% |
| 12:00-3:59 PM |
12:00-3:59 PM
Texas City6.1%
Texas5.8%
|
6.1% |
| 4:00-11:59 PM |
4:00-11:59 PM
Texas City8.3%
Texas6.2%
|
8.3% |
Texas City Texas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Texas City is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 22.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 40.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.6%) 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 Texas City, 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 Texas City 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 Texas City 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.
Show typical departure times by year
| Year | Texas City | Texas | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7:12 AM | 7:32 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2010 | 7:13 AM | 7:32 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2011 | 7:15 AM | 7:32 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2012 | 7:17 AM | 7:32 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2013 | 7:19 AM | 7:32 AM | 7:39 AM |
| 2014 | 7:22 AM | 7:32 AM | 7:39 AM |
| 2015 | 7:27 AM | 7:31 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2016 | 7:25 AM | 7:31 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2017 | 7:26 AM | 7:30 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2018 | 7:25 AM | 7:30 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2019 | 7:23 AM | 7:30 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2020 | 7:19 AM | 7:31 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2021 | 7:21 AM | 7:31 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2022 | 7:19 AM | 7:32 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2023 | 7:19 AM | 7:33 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2024 | 7:17 AM | 7:33 AM | 7:38 AM |
In 2024, half of commuters in Texas City were on the road by 7:17 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:12 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Texas City now leave 21 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 Texas City has moved 6 minutes earlier.
How does Texas City's commute time compare?
| Metric | Texas City | Texas | US Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avg. Commute Time | 22.9 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 | 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM | 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM | 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM |
| Work From Home | 6.6% | 14.4% | 15.0% |
| Walked | 1.4% | 1.5% | 2.4% |
| Public Transit | 0.6% | 0.9% | 3.2% |
The average commute time in Texas City is about the same as in Texas.
0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about commuting in Texas City, Texas.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Texas City, Texas?
Commuters here spend an estimated 191 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,909 at a typical national wage.
When is rush hour worst in Texas City, Texas?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Texas City, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.