Commuting in Tyler 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 Tyler County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Tyler County spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 236 hours, about 9.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.
Tyler County 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 Tyler County would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,921 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)
Tyler County
28.3 min
56.5 min
236 hrs/yr
$7,302
361
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
28.3
minutes to get to work in
Tyler County.
That's 26% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Slower than 87% of counties in Texas
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 8.6% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Tyler County
Car:
88.5%
Worked at Home:
8.6%
Other:
1.4%
Walked:
0.6%
Public Transportation:
0.5%
Motorcycle:
0.3%unusually high
Bicycle:
< 0.1%
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Tyler County: 3.1 times more than the Texas average (0.3% vs 0.1%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Tyler County, versus 0.2% in Texas.
Commute Mode Trends in Tyler County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Tyler 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
Other
Walked
Public Transportation
Motorcycle
Bicycle
Taxi
2009
93.1%
2.4%
1.6%
2.3%
0.0%
0.1%
0.5%
0.0%
2010
92.9%
2.2%
2.4%
1.6%
0.4%
0.1%
0.3%
0.0%
2011
92.1%
2.8%
3.0%
1.7%
0.2%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2012
91.9%
2.7%
3.3%
1.8%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2013
92.2%
2.7%
3.4%
1.3%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2014
91.7%
3.8%
3.1%
1.1%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2015
91.4%
4.1%
3.3%
1.1%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
90.9%
5.1%
2.9%
0.9%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
90.8%
5.0%
3.0%
1.0%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
89.2%
5.3%
4.4%
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
88.7%
4.4%
5.3%
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
92.4%
4.2%
2.1%
1.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
92.5%
3.2%
2.5%
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
91.8%
3.8%
2.9%
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
90.7%
5.6%
1.7%
1.3%
0.6%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
88.5%
8.6%
1.4%
0.6%
0.5%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 88.5% in 2024, down 4.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Tyler County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 8.6% in 2024, up 6.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 0.6% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).
Commute Start Times in Tyler County
🌅Dawn PatrolThe 3rd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Texas's 254 counties: 30.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM.
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Tyler County?
The bars show when commuters in Tyler 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 AMTyler County14.5%Texas5.5%
14.5%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMTyler County7.2%Texas4.4%
7.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMTyler County8.5%Texas5.1%
8.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMTyler County14.5%Texas9.3%
14.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMTyler County5.8%Texas9.3%
5.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMTyler County15.5%Texas15.3%
15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMTyler County6.8%Texas11.8%
6.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMTyler County8.9%Texas11.5%
8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMTyler County1.5%Texas4.8%
1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMTyler County2.8%Texas6.7%
2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMTyler County2.0%Texas3.1%
2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMTyler County1.1%Texas1.3%
1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMTyler County6.1%Texas5.8%
6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMTyler County4.7%Texas6.2%
4.7%
Tyler CountyTexasSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Tyler County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 30.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 37.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.8%) 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 Tyler 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 Tyler 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 Tyler 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
Tyler County
Texas
United States
2009
7:01 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2010
6:58 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:07 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:09 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:07 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:00 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2015
6:58 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2016
6:52 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2017
6:59 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:03 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:03 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:06 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:01 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2022
6:52 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2023
6:56 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2024
6:57 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Tyler County were on the road by 6:57 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:01 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Tyler County now leave 41 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 Tyler County has moved 5 minutes earlier.
How does Tyler County's commute time compare?
Metric
Tyler County
Texas
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
28.3 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
06:00 AM – 06:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
8.6%
14.4%
15.0%
Walked
0.6%
1.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.5%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Tyler County is 28.3 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.
0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.
Tyler County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Tyler County, TX is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 20,238 residents against a local median of 52,800. Where Tyler County, TX breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 46% above the local median of 5.9% at 8.6%.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 28.3 min against a local median of 20.6 min, 37% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 37% above the local median it puts Tyler County, TX at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 2.9% on work from home, so Tyler County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Tyler County, TX has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Tyler County, Texas.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Tyler County, Texas?
Commuters here spend an estimated 236 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,302 at a typical national wage. That's 24% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Tyler County, Texas?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Tyler County, 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.
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).