Commuting in Val Verde 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 Val Verde County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Val Verde County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 130 hours, about 5.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.1 minutes.
Val Verde County holds about 0.2% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Val Verde County would save about 52 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,618 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)
Val Verde County
15.7 min
31.3 min
130 hrs/yr
$4,044
437
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
15.7
minutes to get to work in
Val Verde County.
That's 30% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.8% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Val Verde County
Car:
88.9%
Worked at Home:
5.8%
Walked:
2.0%
Other:
1.0%
Motorcycle:
1.0%unusually high
Bicycle:
1.0%unusually high
Taxi:
0.3%
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Val Verde County: 9.1 times more than the Texas average (1.0% vs 0.1%).
Public transit is unusually rare in Val Verde County: 14.9 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).
Biking is unusually common in Val Verde County: 4.6 times more than the Texas average (1.0% vs 0.2%).
Commute Mode Trends in Val Verde County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Val Verde 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
Motorcycle
Bicycle
Other
Taxi
Public Transportation
2009
92.0%
2.7%
2.7%
0.4%
0.5%
1.3%
0.0%
0.4%
2010
92.3%
2.7%
2.0%
0.3%
0.8%
1.6%
0.0%
0.2%
2011
91.0%
3.5%
2.6%
0.1%
0.9%
1.7%
0.0%
0.3%
2012
89.9%
3.3%
2.8%
0.1%
1.2%
2.5%
0.0%
0.2%
2013
90.1%
3.3%
2.3%
0.1%
1.2%
2.7%
0.0%
0.4%
2014
89.7%
4.1%
2.3%
0.1%
1.1%
2.5%
0.0%
0.2%
2015
89.3%
4.4%
2.5%
0.2%
0.7%
2.6%
0.0%
0.2%
2016
88.9%
3.9%
3.3%
0.4%
0.4%
2.9%
0.0%
0.3%
2017
89.7%
3.5%
3.0%
0.5%
0.3%
2.6%
0.0%
0.4%
2018
90.7%
2.9%
2.7%
0.6%
0.3%
2.5%
0.0%
0.3%
2019
90.3%
2.2%
2.9%
0.8%
0.4%
2.9%
0.0%
0.5%
2020
91.9%
1.6%
2.4%
0.7%
0.8%
2.5%
0.0%
0.2%
2021
92.4%
2.0%
2.0%
0.3%
0.5%
2.3%
0.0%
0.4%
2022
92.4%
2.9%
1.8%
0.4%
0.5%
1.5%
0.0%
0.4%
2023
92.3%
3.6%
1.6%
0.6%
0.5%
1.3%
0.0%
0.1%
2024
88.9%
5.8%
2.0%
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
0.3%
0.1%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2021 at 92.4%. Overall it fell from 92.0% in 2009 to 88.9% in 2024, down 3.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Val Verde County: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 5.8% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 2.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).
Commute Start Times in Val Verde County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Val Verde County?
The bars show when commuters in Val Verde 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 AMVal Verde County5.6%Texas5.5%
5.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMVal Verde County4.3%Texas4.4%
4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMVal Verde County4.9%Texas5.1%
4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMVal Verde County5.1%Texas9.3%
5.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMVal Verde County9.9%Texas9.3%
9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMVal Verde County19.9%Texas15.3%
19.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMVal Verde County14.2%Texas11.8%
14.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMVal Verde County8.9%Texas11.5%
8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMVal Verde County2.2%Texas4.8%
2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMVal Verde County4.6%Texas6.7%
4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMVal Verde County2.0%Texas3.1%
2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMVal Verde County0.6%Texas1.3%
0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMVal Verde County7.3%Texas5.8%
7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMVal Verde County10.3%Texas6.2%
10.3%
Val Verde CountyTexasSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Val Verde County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are about as common as in Texas: 14.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 53.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.8%) 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 Val Verde 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 Val Verde 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 Val Verde 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
Val Verde County
Texas
United States
2009
7:40 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:38 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:32 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:32 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:34 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:35 AM
7:32 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:35 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:38 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:37 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:40 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:43 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:44 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:39 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:45 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:41 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:31 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Val Verde County were on the road by 7:31 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:40 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Val Verde County now leave 7 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 Val Verde County has moved 12 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Val Verde County in the whole series.
How does Val Verde County's commute time compare?
Metric
Val Verde County
Texas
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
15.7 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
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
5.8%
14.4%
15.0%
Walked
2.0%
1.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.9%
3.2%
The average commute time in Val Verde County is 15.7 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.
0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 2.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.
Val Verde County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Val Verde County, TX is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 47,741 residents against a local median of 2,822. Where Val Verde County, TX breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 96% above the local median of 8.0 min at 15.7 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.
Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 5.8% against a local median of 8.6%, 33% below it. The counties themselves sit within 2.1 min of each other on one-way commute, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Val Verde County, TX, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Val Verde County, TX has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Val Verde County, Texas.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Val Verde County, Texas?
Commuters here spend an estimated 130 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,044 at a typical national wage. That's 31% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Val Verde County, Texas?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Val Verde County, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
How common is public transit use in Val Verde County, Texas?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
Which counties in Texas have the fastest and slowest commutes?
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).