Wood County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wood County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wood County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Wood County holds about 0.2% of Texas's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wood County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,439 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)
Wood County	23.6 min	47.2 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,097	482
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 23.6 minutes to get to work in Wood County. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 77% 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 10.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wood County

• Car: 86.5%
• Worked at Home: 10.6%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Other: 0.7%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Wood County: 3.8 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Wood County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wood 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
• Walked
• Other
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	83.7%	11.4%	3.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	84.9%	11.2%	2.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	85.7%	10.7%	2.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	87.2%	9.0%	2.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	87.8%	7.2%	3.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	89.3%	6.7%	2.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	89.7%	6.1%	2.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	90.3%	6.1%	2.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	90.6%	5.6%	2.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	90.9%	6.1%	2.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.1%	6.6%	2.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.7%	6.5%	1.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.1%	6.9%	1.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.5%	7.9%	1.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.5%	9.6%	1.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.5%	10.6%	1.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	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 2018 at 90.9%. Overall it rose from 83.7% in 2009 to 86.5% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.6% to 1.6% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Wood County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wood County?

The bars show when commuters in Wood 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 Wood County5.7% Texas5.5%	5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wood County3.2% Texas4.4%	3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wood County9.1% Texas5.1%	9.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wood County7.4% Texas9.3%	7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wood County15.0% Texas9.3%	15.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wood County15.8% Texas15.3%	15.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wood County12.0% Texas11.8%	12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wood County13.1% Texas11.5%	13.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wood County1.6% Texas4.8%	1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wood County5.2% Texas6.7%	5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wood County1.8% Texas3.1%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wood County0.7% Texas1.3%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wood County3.2% Texas5.8%	3.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wood County6.1% Texas6.2%	6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wood County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 18.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 55.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.9%) 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 Wood 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 Wood 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 Wood 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.

• Wood County
• Texas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Wood County	Texas	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wood County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Wood County now leave 20 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Wood County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wood County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.6 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	10.6%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wood County is 23.6 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.2% 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