Zavala County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Zavala County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Zavala County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 114 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% less time on the road than the Texas average of 22.8 minutes each way, a difference of 9.2 minutes.

Zavala 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 Zavala County would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,409 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)
Zavala County	13.6 min	27.3 min	114 hrs/yr	$3,523	453
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 13.6 minutes to get to work in Zavala County. That's 39% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 74% of counties in Texas

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Zavala County

• Car: 86.0%
• Worked at Home: 6.4%
• Bicycle: 3.4% unusually high
• Walked: 3.0%
• Other: 1.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Biking is unusually common in Zavala County: 16.3 times more than the Texas average (3.4% vs 0.2%).

Zavala County stands out for active commuting: 6.4% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.8 times the Texas average of 1.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Zavala County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Zavala 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	Worked at Home	Bicycle	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.2%	0.8%	0.0%	3.1%	5.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.6%	1.8%	0.0%	4.2%	5.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	84.5%	5.9%	0.0%	4.4%	5.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	89.6%	4.6%	0.0%	3.1%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	88.8%	6.0%	0.0%	2.7%	2.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	88.2%	5.5%	0.0%	3.0%	2.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%
2015	87.5%	4.6%	0.0%	3.4%	2.8%	0.2%	0.0%	1.6%
2016	89.7%	2.9%	0.0%	2.2%	3.6%	0.3%	0.0%	1.4%
2017	87.9%	5.4%	0.0%	2.1%	2.4%	0.4%	0.0%	1.8%
2018	89.9%	3.8%	0.0%	1.6%	2.4%	0.3%	0.0%	2.0%
2019	93.1%	2.2%	0.0%	1.7%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	1.2%
2020	90.3%	2.5%	3.3%	3.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.5%	4.3%	2.4%	2.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.9%	3.7%	2.3%	2.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.6%	4.7%	3.0%	3.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.0%	6.4%	3.4%	3.0%	1.2%	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 was highest in 2019 at 93.1% and lowest in 2011 at 84.5%. Overall it fell from 90.2% in 2009 to 86.0% in 2024, down 4.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Zavala County: its share of workers rose from 0.8% in 2009 to 6.4% in 2024, up 5.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Riding a motorcycle peaked at 2.0% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Zavala County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Zavala County?

The bars show when commuters in Zavala 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 Zavala County1.7% Texas5.5%	1.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Zavala County0.7% Texas4.4%	0.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Zavala County4.6% Texas5.1%	4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Zavala County4.2% Texas9.3%	4.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Zavala County6.6% Texas9.3%	6.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Zavala County19.7% Texas15.3%	19.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Zavala County18.8% Texas11.8%	18.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Zavala County24.1% Texas11.5%	24.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Zavala County3.1% Texas4.8%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Zavala County1.3% Texas6.7%	1.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Zavala County5.5% Texas3.1%	5.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Zavala County0.0% Texas1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Zavala County0.4% Texas5.8%	0.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Zavala County9.5% Texas6.2%	9.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Zavala County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 24.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Texas. Early starts are less common than in Texas: 6.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Texas: 69.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.7%) 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 Zavala 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 Zavala 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 Zavala 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	Zavala County	Texas	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:50 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:52 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:55 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:50 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Zavala County were on the road by 7:50 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:40 AM). The shift is sharper than across Texas, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Zavala County now leave 12 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Zavala County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Zavala County's commute time compare?

Metric	Zavala County	Texas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.6 min	22.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	6.4%	14.4%	15.0%
Walked	3.0%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Zavala County is 13.6 minutes, shorter than the 22.8 minutes in Texas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Texas. 3.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Texas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau