Wilbarger County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wilbarger County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wilbarger County spend about 22 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 92 hours, about 3.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 51% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 11.7 minutes.

Wilbarger County holds about 0.0% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wilbarger County would save about 37 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,144 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)
Wilbarger County	11.1 min	22.1 min	92 hrs/yr	$2,860	232
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 11.1 minutes to get to work in Wilbarger County. That's 51% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 87% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wilbarger County

• Car: 92.5%
• Worked at Home: 4.1% unusually low
• Walked: 1.6%
• Motorcycle: 0.9% unusually high
• Bicycle: 0.9% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Wilbarger County: 8.2 times more than the Texas average (0.9% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Wilbarger County, versus 0.9% in Texas.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Wilbarger County, versus 0.2% in Texas.

Working from home is unusually rare in Wilbarger County: 3.5 times less than the Texas average (4.1% vs 14.4%).

Biking is unusually common in Wilbarger County: 4.2 times more than the Texas average (0.9% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Wilbarger County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wilbarger 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	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Other
2009	94.5%	2.4%	1.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	95.0%	2.3%	1.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	94.5%	2.9%	1.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	93.7%	3.9%	1.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	94.1%	4.0%	0.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	94.2%	3.3%	1.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.6%	3.0%	1.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.0%	2.1%	1.4%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	96.2%	0.8%	1.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.5%	1.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2019	96.5%	1.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.7%
2020	96.1%	1.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.8%
2021	94.7%	2.5%	1.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2022	92.8%	3.3%	1.7%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	1.3%
2023	93.5%	2.9%	1.6%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.5%	4.1%	1.6%	0.9%	0.9%	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 2019 at 96.5%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 92.5% in 2024, down 2.0 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wilbarger County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 4.1% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Wilbarger County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wilbarger County?

The bars show when commuters in Wilbarger 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 Wilbarger County9.8% Texas5.5%	9.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wilbarger County4.3% Texas4.4%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wilbarger County3.1% Texas5.1%	3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wilbarger County9.7% Texas9.3%	9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wilbarger County9.2% Texas9.3%	9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wilbarger County10.1% Texas15.3%	10.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wilbarger County21.8% Texas11.8%	21.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wilbarger County10.1% Texas11.5%	10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wilbarger County3.7% Texas4.8%	3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wilbarger County3.1% Texas6.7%	3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wilbarger County1.7% Texas3.1%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wilbarger County0.2% Texas1.3%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wilbarger County7.1% Texas5.8%	7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wilbarger County6.0% Texas6.2%	6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wilbarger County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 21.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 17.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 51.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.1%) 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 Wilbarger 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 Wilbarger 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 Wilbarger 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	Wilbarger County	Texas	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wilbarger County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Texas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Wilbarger County now leave 3 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Wilbarger County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wilbarger County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.1 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.1%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wilbarger County is 11.1 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% 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