Van Zandt County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Van Zandt County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Van Zandt County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 251 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.3 minutes.

Van Zandt County holds about 0.2% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Van Zandt County would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,112 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)
Van Zandt County	30.1 min	60.2 min	251 hrs/yr	$7,781	733
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.

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On average, it takes 30.1 minutes to get to work in Van Zandt County. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 91% of counties in Texas

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 12.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Van Zandt County

• Car: 85.8%
• Worked at Home: 12.1%
• Other: 1.1%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Van Zandt County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Public transit is unusually rare in Van Zandt County: 6.6 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Van Zandt County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Van Zandt 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.9%	3.0%	0.6%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	94.5%	3.3%	0.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	94.3%	3.1%	0.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.5%	2.8%	0.9%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	93.8%	3.7%	0.6%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.3%	3.3%	0.7%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	93.6%	4.4%	0.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	92.1%	6.0%	0.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	91.8%	6.4%	0.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	92.1%	5.4%	0.8%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	92.5%	4.8%	0.7%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	90.5%	6.9%	0.8%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	90.9%	6.6%	1.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.9%	7.8%	1.0%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.2%	10.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.8%	12.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.9% in 2009 to 85.8% in 2024, down 9.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Van Zandt County: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 12.1% in 2024, up 9.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.8% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Van Zandt County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Van Zandt County?

The bars show when commuters in Van Zandt 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 AM Van Zandt County9.9% Texas5.5%	9.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Van Zandt County4.5% Texas4.4%	4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Van Zandt County6.8% Texas5.1%	6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Van Zandt County9.4% Texas9.3%	9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Van Zandt County8.7% Texas9.3%	8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Van Zandt County18.8% Texas15.3%	18.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Van Zandt County10.4% Texas11.8%	10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Van Zandt County9.0% Texas11.5%	9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Van Zandt County4.9% Texas4.8%	4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Van Zandt County2.7% Texas6.7%	2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Van Zandt County2.1% Texas3.1%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Van Zandt County0.8% Texas1.3%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Van Zandt County5.5% Texas5.8%	5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Van Zandt County6.6% Texas6.2%	6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Van Zandt County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 21.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 46.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.7%) 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 Van Zandt 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 Van Zandt 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 Van Zandt 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Van Zandt County	Texas	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Van Zandt County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Van Zandt County 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 Van Zandt County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Van Zandt County's commute time compare?

Metric	Van Zandt County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.1 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	12.1%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Van Zandt County is 30.1 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.1% 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