Victoria County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Victoria County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Victoria County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 146 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.3 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Victoria County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,809 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)
Victoria County	17.5 min	35.0 min	146 hrs/yr	$4,522	758
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

Loving County (3.2 min)
King County (5.8 min)
Terrell County (6.5 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Texas

Bandera County (38.6 min)
San Jacinto County (35.9 min)
Liberty County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Victoria County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.5 minutes to get to work in Victoria County. That's 22% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 6.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Victoria County

Public transit is unusually rare in Victoria County: 3.8 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Victoria County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Victoria 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	Taxi	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	94.0%	1.7%	1.8%	0.7%	0.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2010	94.2%	1.7%	1.9%	0.5%	0.1%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	94.8%	1.7%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2012	94.4%	2.1%	1.5%	0.3%	0.1%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2013	94.9%	2.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	94.5%	3.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	94.1%	3.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%
2016	93.3%	3.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	93.4%	4.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	92.6%	4.4%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%
2019	92.2%	4.2%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	91.1%	5.4%	1.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	90.1%	6.0%	2.0%	0.5%	0.1%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	90.5%	5.8%	1.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	90.2%	6.4%	1.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	89.9%	6.8%	1.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 94.9%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 89.9% in 2024, down 4.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Victoria County: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 6.8% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Victoria County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Victoria County?

The bars show when commuters in Victoria 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		9.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Victoria County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 20.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 50.0% 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 Victoria 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 Victoria 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 Victoria 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	Victoria County	Texas	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Victoria County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Victoria County now leave 16 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 Victoria County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Victoria County's commute time compare?

Metric	Victoria County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.5 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	6.8%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Victoria County is 17.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Victoria County, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Victoria County, TX is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 91,396 residents against a local median of 15,152. The measure that sets Victoria County, TX apart most is work from home: 6.8%, 20% above the local median of 5.7%.

The counties themselves spread 5.3% on work from home, so Victoria County, TX sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Victoria County, TX has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Victoria County, TX	91,396	17.5 min #3/6	6.8% #2/6	7:22 AM #4/6
Jackson County, TX	15,152	23.9 min	7.8%	7:13 AM
Goliad County, TX	7,141	30.6 min	5.7%	7:18 AM
DeWitt County, TX	20,016	18.2 min	6.4%	7:26 AM
Calhoun County, TX	19,868	16.2 min	4.9%	7:10 AM
Refugio County, TX	6,707	13.7 min	2.4%	7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Victoria County, Texas.

Is living in Victoria County, Texas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 146 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,522 at a typical national wage. That's 23% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Victoria County, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Victoria 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.

How common is public transit use in Victoria County, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% 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).