Yoakum County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Yoakum County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Yoakum County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 144 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.6 minutes.

Yoakum 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 Yoakum County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,781 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)
Yoakum County	17.2 min	34.5 min	144 hrs/yr	$4,453	271
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 17.2 minutes to get to work in Yoakum County. That's 23% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by other means. About 2.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Yoakum County

• Car: 88.8%
• Other: 5.5%
• Walked: 2.9%
• Worked at Home: 2.9% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Yoakum County: 5.0 times less than the Texas average (2.9% vs 14.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Yoakum County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Yoakum 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	Other	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.1%	1.8%	1.8%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.8%	2.1%	3.8%	4.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.9%	1.9%	3.0%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.4%	0.7%	0.8%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.6%	0.2%	0.8%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.8%	0.2%	1.3%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	97.2%	0.0%	0.8%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.0%	0.0%	4.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	94.8%	0.0%	3.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	93.8%	0.8%	3.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	95.2%	1.0%	2.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	91.6%	0.7%	6.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	94.8%	1.1%	3.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.2%	1.8%	3.1%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.6%	2.7%	2.6%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.8%	5.5%	2.9%	2.9%	0.0%	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 2015 at 97.2%. Overall it fell from 92.1% in 2009 to 88.8% in 2024, down 3.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Yoakum County: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 2.9% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 4.2% to 2.9% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 6.6% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 2.9%.

Commute Start Times in Yoakum County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Yoakum County?

The bars show when commuters in Yoakum 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 Yoakum County4.8% Texas5.5%	4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Yoakum County4.7% Texas4.4%	4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Yoakum County3.0% Texas5.1%	3.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Yoakum County13.5% Texas9.3%	13.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Yoakum County14.0% Texas9.3%	14.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Yoakum County7.7% Texas15.3%	7.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Yoakum County16.2% Texas11.8%	16.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Yoakum County9.7% Texas11.5%	9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Yoakum County2.2% Texas4.8%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Yoakum County10.8% Texas6.7%	10.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Yoakum County0.7% Texas3.1%	0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Yoakum County0.1% Texas1.3%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Yoakum County1.5% Texas5.8%	1.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Yoakum County11.2% Texas6.2%	11.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Yoakum County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 12.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Texas's: 47.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.3%) 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 Yoakum 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 Yoakum 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 Yoakum 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	Yoakum County	Texas	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:03 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:07 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Yoakum County were on the road by 7:34 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:25 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Yoakum County now leave 3 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 Yoakum County has moved 14 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Yoakum County in the whole series.

How does Yoakum County's commute time compare?

Metric	Yoakum County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.2 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	2.9%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	2.9%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Yoakum County is 17.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau