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Uvalde County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Uvalde 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 Uvalde County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Uvalde County spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 107 hours, about 4.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 43% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 9.9 minutes.

Uvalde 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 Uvalde County would save about 43 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,333 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)
Uvalde County 12.9 min 25.8 min 107 hrs/yr $3,332 232
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.

Commute Time Map: Texas Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Texas
  1. Loving County (3.2 min)
  2. King County (5.8 min)
  3. Terrell County (6.5 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Texas
  1. Bandera County (38.6 min)
  2. San Jacinto County (35.9 min)
  3. Liberty County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Uvalde County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 12.9 minutes to get to work in Uvalde County. That's 42% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 80% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Uvalde County

  • Car: 90.2%
  • Worked at Home: 4.9%
  • Walked: 3.0%
  • Other: 2.0%
  • 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 Uvalde County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Public transit is essentially absent in Uvalde County, versus 0.9% in Texas.

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

Biking is essentially absent in Uvalde County, versus 0.2% in Texas.

Commute Mode Trends in Uvalde County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Uvalde 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 90.5% 3.2% 5.2% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2%
2010 90.3% 3.3% 5.1% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
2011 90.2% 3.5% 4.5% 1.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.4%
2012 89.3% 3.6% 5.5% 1.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2%
2013 92.6% 3.2% 2.7% 0.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1%
2014 95.1% 2.3% 1.5% 0.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2015 94.5% 3.6% 1.1% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2016 94.4% 3.2% 1.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2017 94.5% 2.9% 1.1% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.3%
2018 93.9% 3.1% 1.5% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2019 94.3% 2.8% 1.4% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.3%
2020 93.9% 2.5% 1.5% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.7%
2021 93.4% 3.3% 1.0% 2.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2022 94.0% 3.3% 1.5% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 93.1% 4.1% 1.1% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 90.2% 4.9% 3.0% 2.0% 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 was highest in 2014 at 95.1% and lowest in 2012 at 89.3%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 90.5% in 2009 and 90.2% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Uvalde County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 4.9% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.2% to 3.0% of workers (down 2.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Uvalde County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Uvalde County?

The bars show when commuters in Uvalde 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
4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
6.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
7.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
18.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
12.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
6.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
12.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Uvalde County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 9.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 53.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.2%) 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 Uvalde 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 Uvalde 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 Uvalde 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 Uvalde County Texas United States
2009 7:46 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:44 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:43 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:40 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:38 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:32 AM 7:32 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:31 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:26 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:30 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:27 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:32 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:37 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:40 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:41 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:48 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:49 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Uvalde County were on the road by 7:49 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:46 AM). Texas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Uvalde County now leave 11 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 Uvalde County has moved 16 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Uvalde County in the whole series.

How does Uvalde County's commute time compare?

Metric Uvalde County Texas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 12.9 min 22.8 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 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 4.9% 14.4% 15.0%
Walked 3.0% 1.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.9% 3.2%

The average commute time in Uvalde County is 12.9 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 3.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Uvalde County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Uvalde County, TX is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 24,881 residents against a local median of 9,412. Uvalde County, TX's work from home, at 4.9%, runs 61% below the 12.6% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 18.0% on work from home, so Uvalde County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Uvalde County, TX has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Uvalde County, TX 24,881 12.9 min #3/6 4.9% #6/6 7:49 AM #4/6
Real County, TX 2,802 11.9 min 24.4% 8:04 AM
Zavala County, TX 9,412 13.6 min 6.4% 7:50 AM
Bandera County, TX 22,021 38.6 min 9.5% 7:22 AM
Medina County, TX 53,547 30.7 min 12.6% 7:13 AM
Kinney County, TX 3,157 8.0 min 16.4% 7:19 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Uvalde County, Texas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Uvalde County, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 107 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,332 at a typical national wage. That's 43% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Uvalde County, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Uvalde County, 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.

Do people use public transit in Uvalde 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).