Wise County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wise County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wise County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.9 minutes.

Wise 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 Wise County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,175 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)
Wise County	30.7 min	61.5 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,938	1,101
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 30.7 minutes to get to work in Wise County. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 94% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wise County

• Car: 86.1%
• Worked at Home: 12.0%
• Other: 1.0%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Wise County: 14.0 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Wise County: 59359268.2 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is essentially absent in Wise County, versus 0.2% in Texas.

Commute Mode Trends in Wise County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wise 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.0%	5.1%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.2%	4.6%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.4%	4.6%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.2%	4.1%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.9%	4.3%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.4%	4.9%	0.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.0%	5.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.1%	5.7%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	92.3%	5.7%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	92.2%	5.5%	0.6%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	92.5%	5.3%	0.6%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.9%	6.2%	0.6%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	89.6%	8.0%	0.8%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.4%	9.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.4%	10.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.1%	12.0%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2012 at 94.2%. Overall it fell from 93.0% in 2009 to 86.1% in 2024, down 6.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wise County: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 12.0% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Wise County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wise County?

The bars show when commuters in Wise 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 Wise County8.0% Texas5.5%	8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wise County6.2% Texas4.4%	6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wise County7.4% Texas5.1%	7.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wise County10.6% Texas9.3%	10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wise County11.8% Texas9.3%	11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wise County17.7% Texas15.3%	17.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wise County11.3% Texas11.8%	11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wise County7.3% Texas11.5%	7.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wise County2.3% Texas4.8%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wise County3.8% Texas6.7%	3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wise County1.9% Texas3.1%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wise County0.8% Texas1.3%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wise County5.6% Texas5.8%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wise County5.3% Texas6.2%	5.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wise County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 21.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 48.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 Wise 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 Wise 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 Wise 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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• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Wise County	Texas	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:10 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:12 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 Wise County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 6 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 Wise 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 Wise County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Wise County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wise County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.7 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wise County is 30.7 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau