Wilson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wilson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wilson County spend about 67 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 277 hours, about 11.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 46% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 10.5 minutes.

Wilson 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 Wilson County would save about 111 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,441 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)
Wilson County	33.3 min	66.6 min	277 hrs/yr	$8,602	533
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.

Commute Time Map: Texas Counties

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On average, it takes 33.3 minutes to get to work in Wilson County. That's 49% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wilson County

• Car: 83.8%
• Worked at Home: 14.7%
• Other: 0.8%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Wilson County: 4.0 times less than the Texas average (0.4% vs 1.5%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Wilson County: 6.6 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Wilson County: just 0.5%, 3.3 times below the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Wilson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wilson 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	94.2%	3.9%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.4%	4.0%	0.5%	1.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.7%	4.3%	0.6%	1.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.6%	4.4%	0.4%	1.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	93.7%	4.3%	0.4%	1.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.7%	5.4%	0.3%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.1%	5.6%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	91.6%	6.4%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	91.5%	6.4%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	90.9%	7.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	90.8%	7.6%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	88.7%	9.5%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	86.5%	12.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	85.9%	12.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	85.6%	12.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	83.8%	14.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.2% in 2009 to 83.8% in 2024, down 10.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wilson County: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 14.7% in 2024, up 10.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 1.9% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 0.4%.

Commute Start Times in Wilson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wilson County?

The bars show when commuters in Wilson 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 Wilson County7.5% Texas5.5%	7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wilson County6.7% Texas4.4%	6.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wilson County8.6% Texas5.1%	8.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wilson County15.3% Texas9.3%	15.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wilson County11.5% Texas9.3%	11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wilson County15.0% Texas15.3%	15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wilson County8.4% Texas11.8%	8.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wilson County8.6% Texas11.5%	8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wilson County3.0% Texas4.8%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wilson County4.4% Texas6.7%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wilson County1.2% Texas3.1%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wilson County1.1% Texas1.3%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wilson County2.9% Texas5.8%	2.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wilson County5.8% Texas6.2%	5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wilson County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 22.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Texas: 43.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.5%) 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 Wilson 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 Wilson 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 Wilson 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	Wilson County	Texas	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:05 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:06 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:08 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:04 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:02 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:03 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:04 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:01 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wilson County were on the road by 7:01 AM, 20 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 Wilson County now leave 37 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 Wilson County has moved 2 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Wilson County in the whole series.

How does Wilson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wilson County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.3 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.7%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wilson County is 33.3 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau