Waller County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Waller County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Waller County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 257 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 8.1 minutes.

Waller 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 Waller County would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,188 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)
Waller County	30.9 min	61.7 min	257 hrs/yr	$7,971	1,690
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 30.9 minutes to get to work in Waller County. That's 38% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 95% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Waller County

• Car: 86.7%
• Worked at Home: 11.1%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Waller County: 9.8 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Waller County: 3.3 times less than the Texas average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Waller County: 68455435.5 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Waller County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Waller 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.1%	5.2%	2.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	91.9%	4.9%	2.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	92.6%	4.0%	2.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	92.9%	3.5%	2.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	91.9%	3.9%	3.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	91.2%	3.6%	3.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	87.3%	4.6%	5.7%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	88.3%	4.9%	4.7%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	89.5%	4.4%	3.9%	1.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	89.9%	4.5%	3.3%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	91.0%	3.8%	3.2%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	92.0%	4.5%	2.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	88.8%	7.4%	2.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.1%	8.4%	1.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.0%	10.1%	1.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.7%	11.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.3%	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 peaked in 2012 at 92.9%. Overall it fell from 91.1% in 2009 to 86.7% in 2024, down 4.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Waller County: its share of workers rose from 5.2% in 2009 to 11.1% in 2024, up 5.9 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 2.7% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Waller County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Waller County?

The bars show when commuters in Waller 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 Waller County7.6% Texas5.5%	7.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Waller County8.9% Texas4.4%	8.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Waller County6.8% Texas5.1%	6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Waller County11.1% Texas9.3%	11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Waller County8.4% Texas9.3%	8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Waller County12.6% Texas15.3%	12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Waller County10.2% Texas11.8%	10.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Waller County11.5% Texas11.5%	11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Waller County4.2% Texas4.8%	4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Waller County3.7% Texas6.7%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Waller County1.6% Texas3.1%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Waller County2.2% Texas1.3%	2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Waller County6.6% Texas5.8%	6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Waller County4.7% Texas6.2%	4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Waller County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 23.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 42.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.7%) 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 Waller 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 Waller 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 Waller 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	Waller County	Texas	United States
2009	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:10 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:06 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Waller County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:12 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Waller 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 Waller County has moved 9 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Waller County in the whole series.

How does Waller County's commute time compare?

Metric	Waller County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.9 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.1%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Waller County is 30.9 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau