Young County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Young County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Young County spend about 22 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 91 hours, about 3.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 52% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 11.9 minutes.

Young County holds about 0.1% of Texas's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Young County would save about 36 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,123 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)
Young County	10.9 min	21.7 min	91 hrs/yr	$2,809	204
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 10.9 minutes to get to work in Young County. That's 51% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 89% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Young County

• Car: 92.6%
• Worked at Home: 3.8% unusually low
• Walked: 2.6%
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Young County: 4.3 times less than the Texas average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Young County: 3.8 times less than the Texas average (3.8% vs 14.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Young County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Young 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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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.7%	2.6%	1.5%	2.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.3%	2.9%	1.4%	2.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.5%	2.6%	0.8%	2.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.6%	3.5%	1.3%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.3%	3.3%	1.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.1%	4.8%	0.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.0%	5.2%	0.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.0%	5.9%	0.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.9%	6.1%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.7%	6.6%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.7%	6.2%	1.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.2%	6.3%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.3%	5.1%	1.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.9%	5.3%	1.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.7%	4.8%	1.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.6%	3.8%	2.6%	0.6%	0.2%	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 was highest in 2011 at 94.5% and lowest in 2020 at 91.2%. Overall it fell from 93.7% in 2009 to 92.6% in 2024, down 1.1 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Young County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 3.8% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points.

Working from home peaked at 6.6% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 3.8%.

Commute Start Times in Young County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Young County?

The bars show when commuters in Young 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 Young County6.8% Texas5.5%	6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Young County4.2% Texas4.4%	4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Young County8.3% Texas5.1%	8.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Young County9.4% Texas9.3%	9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Young County12.1% Texas9.3%	12.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Young County12.7% Texas15.3%	12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Young County16.6% Texas11.8%	16.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Young County11.5% Texas11.5%	11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Young County5.4% Texas4.8%	5.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Young County5.2% Texas6.7%	5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Young County2.0% Texas3.1%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Young County0.9% Texas1.3%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Young County2.6% Texas5.8%	2.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Young County2.3% Texas6.2%	2.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Young County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Texas. Early starts are more common than in Texas: 19.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 52.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.0%) 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 Young 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 Young 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 Young 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Young County	Texas	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Young County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across Texas, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Young County now leave 16 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 Young County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Young County's commute time compare?

Metric	Young County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.9 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.8%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	2.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Young County is 10.9 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 2.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau