West Odessa Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in West Odessa: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in West Odessa spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 255 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.8 minutes.

West Odessa holds about 0.1% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in West Odessa would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,160 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)
West Odessa	30.6 min	61.2 min	255 hrs/yr	$7,901	1,148
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.

West Odessa Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.6 minutes to get to work in West Odessa. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in West Odessa

• Car: 95.4%
• Worked at Home: 3.2% unusually low
• Other: 0.7%
• Walked: 0.7%
• 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 West Odessa, versus 0.1% in Texas.

Public transit is unusually rare in West Odessa: 39.1 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in West Odessa, versus 0.2% in Texas.

Working from home is unusually rare in West Odessa: 4.5 times less than the Texas average (3.2% vs 14.4%).

Biking is essentially absent in West Odessa, versus 0.2% in Texas.

Commute Mode Trends in West Odessa, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in West Odessa 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.0%	3.5%	0.2%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	91.8%	4.4%	0.6%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	94.3%	2.8%	0.6%	2.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	94.1%	3.5%	0.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	94.0%	3.6%	0.7%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	95.2%	3.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.5%	3.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.3%	3.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.3%	2.1%	0.4%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	96.9%	1.5%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.9%	1.9%	0.2%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.9%	2.3%	0.8%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	96.2%	1.7%	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.9%	2.9%	0.5%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.9%	3.9%	0.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	95.4%	3.2%	0.7%	0.7%	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 2018 at 96.9% and lowest in 2010 at 91.8%. Overall it rose from 93.0% in 2009 to 95.4% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in West Odessa

What Time Do People Leave for Work in West Odessa?

The bars show when commuters in West Odessa 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 West Odessa16.1% Texas5.5%	16.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM West Odessa5.8% Texas4.4%	5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM West Odessa5.5% Texas5.1%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM West Odessa15.3% Texas9.3%	15.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM West Odessa9.0% Texas9.3%	9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM West Odessa14.6% Texas15.3%	14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM West Odessa14.1% Texas11.8%	14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM West Odessa7.2% Texas11.5%	7.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM West Odessa1.2% Texas4.8%	1.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM West Odessa1.9% Texas6.7%	1.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM West Odessa0.0% Texas3.1%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM West Odessa0.9% Texas1.3%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM West Odessa2.6% Texas5.8%	2.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM West Odessa5.8% Texas6.2%	5.8%

West Odessa Texas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in West Odessa is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 5.5% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 27.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 44.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.3%) 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 West Odessa, 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 West Odessa 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 West Odessa 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.

• West Odessa
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	West Odessa	Texas	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:11 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:04 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:51 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:49 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:54 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:01 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:55 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in West Odessa were on the road by 6:55 AM, 26 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in West Odessa now leave 43 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 West Odessa has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does West Odessa's commute time compare?

Metric	West Odessa	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.6 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.2%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in West Odessa is 30.6 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau