Wylie Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Wylie: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wylie spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 264 hours, about 11.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 39% more time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 8.9 minutes.

Wylie 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 Wylie would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,276 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)
Wylie	31.7 min	63.4 min	264 hrs/yr	$8,191	2,685
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.

Wylie Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.7 minutes to get to work in Wylie. That's 41% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 23.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wylie

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

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Wylie: 19623324.2 times less than the Texas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Wylie: 4.0 times less than the Texas average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Wylie, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wylie 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	91.9%	4.5%	0.9%	0.6%	1.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	92.2%	4.3%	1.1%	0.4%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	92.8%	4.1%	1.0%	0.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.8%	4.2%	0.9%	0.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	92.8%	4.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.4%	4.9%	1.0%	0.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.6%	5.4%	1.1%	0.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	90.9%	5.9%	1.1%	0.6%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	90.4%	6.5%	1.2%	0.4%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	90.1%	6.9%	1.1%	0.3%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	90.7%	6.9%	0.8%	0.3%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	86.5%	10.1%	1.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	83.1%	13.7%	1.6%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	79.5%	16.8%	2.3%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	77.6%	19.3%	1.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	73.7%	23.0%	1.9%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	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 92.8%. Overall it fell from 91.9% in 2009 to 73.7% in 2024, down 18.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wylie: its share of workers rose from 4.5% in 2009 to 23.0% in 2024, up 18.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Wylie

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wylie?

The bars show when commuters in Wylie 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		3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wylie is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 11.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 51.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.9%) 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 Wylie, 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 Wylie 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 Wylie 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Wylie	Texas	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wylie were on the road by 7:38 AM, 19 minutes later than in 2009 (7:19 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Wylie now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Wylie has moved 18 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Wylie in the whole series.

How does Wylie's commute time compare?

Metric	Wylie	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.7 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	23.0%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wylie is 31.7 minutes, longer than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Wylie, TX Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Wylie, TX compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Wylie, TX	55,679	31.7 min #2/2	23.0% #2/2	7:38 AM #1/2
Sachse, TX	27,449	30.6 min	23.9%	7:55 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Wylie, Texas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Wylie, Texas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 264 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,191 at a typical national wage. That's 39% more than the typical Texas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Wylie, Texas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Wylie, Texas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Wylie, Texas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Texas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Is Wylie, Texas a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 23.0% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Wylie would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,276 at the same national wage assumption used above.