Wichita Falls Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Wichita Falls, Texas: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Wichita Falls: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wichita Falls spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 104 hours, about 4.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 45% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 10.3 minutes.

Wichita Falls 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 Wichita Falls would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,290 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 Falls	12.5 min	25.0 min	104 hrs/yr	$3,224	1,424
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.

Wichita Falls Commute Map

On average, it takes 12.5 minutes to get to work in Wichita Falls. That's 44% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wichita Falls

Walking is unusually common in Wichita Falls: 5.5 times more than the Texas average (8.2% vs 1.5%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Wichita Falls: 3.1 times less than the Texas average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

Wichita Falls stands out for active commuting: 8.5% of workers walk or bike to work, 5.0 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Wichita Falls, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wichita Falls 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	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.4%	4.1%	2.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%
2010	86.6%	7.1%	4.4%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%
2011	85.0%	8.8%	4.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%
2012	85.5%	6.7%	6.1%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%
2013	86.2%	5.6%	6.3%	0.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	86.0%	5.0%	7.0%	0.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	85.0%	9.2%	3.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	84.1%	9.2%	4.2%	1.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	83.0%	10.0%	4.0%	1.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%
2018	82.8%	10.2%	4.3%	1.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	82.5%	10.9%	4.3%	1.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	82.5%	9.5%	5.4%	1.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	82.4%	9.0%	6.3%	1.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	83.4%	8.2%	6.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	82.5%	8.2%	7.2%	1.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	82.5%	8.2%	6.9%	1.5%	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 bottomed out in 2021 at 82.4%. Overall it fell from 91.4% in 2009 to 82.5% in 2024, down 8.9 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wichita Falls: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 4.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.6% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 10.9% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 8.2%.

Commute Start Times in Wichita Falls

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wichita Falls?

The bars show when commuters in Wichita Falls 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		4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wichita Falls is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 11.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 50.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.5%) 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 Falls, 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 Falls 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 Falls 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	Wichita Falls	Texas	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:38 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:41 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:40 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wichita Falls were on the road by 7:40 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Wichita Falls now leave 2 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Wichita Falls has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Wichita Falls's commute time compare?

Metric	Wichita Falls	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.5 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	6.9%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	8.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wichita Falls is 12.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 8.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Is living in Wichita Falls, Texas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 104 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,224 at a typical national wage. That's 45% less than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Wichita Falls, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Wichita Falls, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Wichita Falls, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.