Wichita County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wichita County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wichita County spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 109 hours, about 4.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 43% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 9.7 minutes.

Wichita County holds about 0.4% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wichita County would save about 44 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,349 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)
Wichita County	13.1 min	26.1 min	109 hrs/yr	$3,372	704
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 13.1 minutes to get to work in Wichita County. That's 42% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 79% 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 walking. About 6.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wichita County

• Car: 84.4%
• Walked: 7.1% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 6.4%
• Other: 1.2%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: 0.1%

Walking is unusually common in Wichita County: 4.8 times more than the Texas average (7.1% vs 1.5%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Wichita County: 3.5 times less than the Texas average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

Wichita County stands out for active commuting: 7.4% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.4 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Wichita County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wichita 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	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	88.4%	6.2%	3.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2010	88.8%	5.5%	3.9%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2011	87.3%	6.7%	4.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.7%	0.1%
2012	87.9%	5.2%	5.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%
2013	88.2%	4.3%	5.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	88.0%	3.9%	6.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2015	87.1%	7.1%	4.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	86.6%	7.0%	4.1%	1.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	85.6%	7.6%	4.0%	1.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2018	85.6%	8.1%	3.8%	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2019	85.2%	8.6%	3.7%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2020	84.9%	8.0%	4.6%	1.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	84.4%	7.9%	5.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	84.8%	7.4%	5.8%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	84.3%	7.1%	6.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	84.4%	7.1%	6.4%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2010 at 88.8% and lowest in 2023 at 84.3%. Overall it fell from 88.4% in 2009 to 84.4% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wichita County: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 6.4% in 2024, up 2.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 8.6% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 7.1%.

Commute Start Times in Wichita County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wichita County?

The bars show when commuters in Wichita 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 Wichita County5.3% Texas5.5%	5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wichita County2.5% Texas4.4%	2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wichita County4.6% Texas5.1%	4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wichita County9.4% Texas9.3%	9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wichita County10.1% Texas9.3%	10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wichita County16.0% Texas15.3%	16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wichita County13.2% Texas11.8%	13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wichita County10.9% Texas11.5%	10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wichita County4.0% Texas4.8%	4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wichita County5.0% Texas6.7%	5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wichita County3.4% Texas3.1%	3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wichita County1.7% Texas1.3%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wichita County6.3% Texas5.8%	6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wichita County7.6% Texas6.2%	7.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wichita County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 12.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 50.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.0%) 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 Wichita 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 Wichita 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 Wichita 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	Wichita County	Texas	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wichita County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Wichita County now leave 3 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Wichita County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wichita County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.1 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	6.4%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	7.1%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wichita County is 13.1 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 7.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau