Winkler County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Winkler County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Winkler County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 138 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.2 minutes.

Winkler 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 Winkler County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,710 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)
Winkler County	16.5 min	33.1 min	138 hrs/yr	$4,275	814
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 16.5 minutes to get to work in Winkler County. That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by other means. About 0.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Winkler County

• Car: 94.6%
• Other: 1.8%
• Walked: 1.8%
• Bicycle: 1.1% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 0.7% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Winkler County, versus 0.1% in Texas.

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Winkler County: 19.4 times less than the Texas average (0.7% vs 14.4%).

Biking is unusually common in Winkler County: 5.5 times more than the Texas average (1.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Winkler County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Winkler 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	Other	Bicycle	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.0%	4.4%	3.2%	0.0%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	94.4%	0.6%	2.8%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	96.5%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	2.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.0%	0.9%	1.4%	0.0%	2.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.5%	1.3%	1.8%	0.0%	2.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.2%	1.5%	1.4%	0.0%	2.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.0%	1.9%	1.6%	0.0%	2.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.6%	2.7%	1.5%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.3%	1.5%	0.7%	0.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.1%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.5%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	95.0%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	95.1%	1.4%	0.9%	0.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	95.5%	1.2%	1.6%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	95.8%	1.6%	2.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	94.6%	1.8%	1.8%	1.1%	0.7%	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 2011 at 96.5%. Overall it rose from 89.0% in 2009 to 94.6% in 2024, up 5.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Biking gained the most ground in Winkler County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 1.1% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.4% to 1.8% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Biking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Winkler County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Winkler County?

The bars show when commuters in Winkler 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 Winkler County4.1% Texas5.5%	4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Winkler County8.4% Texas4.4%	8.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Winkler County5.7% Texas5.1%	5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Winkler County16.0% Texas9.3%	16.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Winkler County8.6% Texas9.3%	8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Winkler County21.3% Texas15.3%	21.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Winkler County14.1% Texas11.8%	14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Winkler County9.3% Texas11.5%	9.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Winkler County0.7% Texas4.8%	0.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Winkler County3.0% Texas6.7%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Winkler County1.3% Texas3.1%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Winkler County0.5% Texas1.3%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Winkler County2.0% Texas5.8%	2.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Winkler County4.9% Texas6.2%	4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Winkler County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 18.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 53.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.7%) 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 Winkler 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 Winkler 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 Winkler 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	Winkler County	Texas	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Winkler County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:17 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Winkler County now leave 28 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 Winkler County has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Winkler County's commute time compare?

Metric	Winkler County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.5 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	0.7%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Winkler County is 16.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau