Name: Commute time by Texas county
Creator: U.S. Census Bureau
Published: 2026-09-17T01:00:00+08:00
License: https://www.census.gov/data/developers/about/terms-of-service.html

Summary

Mean travel time, Texas counties

Mean travel time (minutes) by Texas county · 252 of 254 counties with a published figure · hover or tap a county for every figure on this page

CountiesBandera County

Summary

Every Texas county, shaded by mean travel time to work in minutes. Darker counties have longer commutes. County borders are the U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary (cb_500k). Kenedy and Loving have no published mean.

In a typical Texas county the mean trip to work is 24.3 minutes, the midpoint of the 252 county means the Census published. That is not a Texas figure. A county mean is the average commute inside one county, and averaging those numbers would treat a handful of ranch-county workers the same as Harris. Count every commuter once and Texas sits at 26.7 minutes, pulled up by Houston, Dallas and the suburban counties around them. Bandera is the longest at 40.4 minutes, Presidio the shortest at 9.7. Forty-eight counties average 30 minutes or more. One in twelve Texas commuters, 8.2 percent, spends at least an hour getting to work, and in San Jacinto County that share is 27.3 percent.

26.7 minTexas mean commuteevery commuter counted once

24.3 mintypical countythe middle county, not a state figure

40.4 minBandera Countylongest published county mean

48counties at 30 minutes or morenearly one in five

8.2%of commuters ride an hour or morestatewide share, all 254 counties

Figure 1

Mean travel time, all 252 counties reporting

Mean travel time (minutes) · all 252 with a published figure, of 254 · ranked high to low

Summary

The complete ranking of the 252 counties with a published mean, nothing left out. Bandera leads at 40.4 minutes, then Rains at 39.9 and San Jacinto at 39.1, Hill Country and exurban counties where many people drive into a larger job market. Eleven counties average 35 minutes or more. The twenty-fifth county, Marion, is 31.8 minutes, and the fiftieth, Live Oak, is 29.8. The middle county sits at 24.3 minutes. Fourteen counties average under 15 minutes, and Presidio is last at 9.7. Kenedy and Loving are omitted because the Census suppressed their aggregate travel time.

Figure 2

Share commuting 60 minutes or more, all 254 counties

Share 60 minutes or more · all 254 · ranked high to low

Summary

Share of commuters whose trip is 60 minutes or longer, all 254 counties. Kenedy leads at 29.2 percent, but that is 7 of 24 commuters, so the share can move a long way on a handful of people. Among counties with a more stable base, San Jacinto is 27.3 percent, Crockett 26.7 and Bandera 26.7. Fourteen counties are at 20 percent or higher. The twenty-fifth county, Polk, is 17.1 percent. The middle county sits at 8.5 percent, close to the statewide 8.2 percent. Loving and Borden publish none.

Figure 3

Mean travel time against hour-plus share

Share 60 minutes or more against mean travel time (minutes) · one point per row, 252 of 254 plotted

Summary

Each point is one county with a published mean, 252 of the 254. Counties with longer average trips also tend to send a larger share of people on hour-plus drives: the correlation is 0.79. The relationship is not a straight line. Fort Bend averages 33.0 minutes with 12.0 percent riding an hour or more, while some smaller counties pair a high hour-plus share with a lower mean because a cluster of very short trips pulls the average down. Kenedy and Loving are omitted because they have no published mean.

Table 1

All counties

254 rows · 6 columns · sorted by mean travel time (minutes), high to low

Summary

The full dataset: all 254 counties with mean travel time, the share of commuters under 15 minutes, 30 minutes or more, and 60 minutes or more, and the number of workers who commute, sorted by mean travel time and re-sortable on any column. Use the filter box to jump straight to a county by name. The Census suppressed the mean for Kenedy and Loving; those cells show an em dash rather than a zero. A county mean is not a state figure; averaging the 252 published means would weight Loving County the same as Harris.

All counties
	?	?	?	?	?
Bandera	40.4	18.1%	64.8%	26.7%	8,067
Rains	39.9	22.8%	56.3%	23.4%	4,785
San Jacinto	39.1	15.2%	61.4%	27.3%	9,679
Liberty	39.0	17.0%	64.8%	24.8%	32,565
Trinity	37.3	20.9%	58.9%	17.7%	4,656
Newton	37.1	16.6%	56.9%	19.9%	4,257
Coleman	37.0	45.5%	35.5%	15.5%	3,191
Van Zandt	36.6	22.7%	51.9%	22.5%	23,301
Grimes	35.8	20.0%	59.2%	18.1%	10,969
Bastrop	35.4	19.4%	61.0%	20.1%	39,545
Kaufman	35.4	18.8%	58.0%	19.6%	68,528
Wilson	34.6	17.7%	60.2%	13.2%	20,735
Rockwall	34.1	19.0%	57.7%	16.5%	48,525
Wise	33.9	22.6%	52.2%	16.4%	30,856
Hood	33.7	22.5%	46.7%	17.9%	24,247
Caldwell	33.6	25.7%	52.0%	20.1%	18,877
Schleicher	33.6	50.4%	39.7%	22.6%	936
Fort Bend	33.0	13.6%	57.3%	12.0%	342,942
Lee	33.0	36.2%	44.8%	21.7%	6,850
Chambers	32.5	21.8%	49.3%	18.0%	21,543
Parker	32.4	19.2%	52.6%	13.7%	66,787
Hunt	32.2	28.4%	43.5%	19.5%	42,358
Fannin	32.0	28.9%	49.2%	15.5%	13,342
Marion	31.8	20.9%	51.8%	13.3%	3,499
Waller	31.8	21.4%	52.3%	14.4%	23,561
Montgomery	31.7	17.3%	49.9%	14.4%	264,482
Somervell	31.7	40.4%	36.9%	16.4%	4,126
Goliad	31.5	26.8%	51.7%	12.3%	2,606
Comal	31.4	24.6%	47.7%	11.9%	68,908
Johnson	31.3	17.0%	56.8%	9.3%	83,516
Crockett	31.2	57.9%	37.2%	26.7%	1,391
Montague	31.2	32.3%	48.9%	17.2%	7,267
Brazoria	31.1	19.5%	52.4%	11.6%	158,354
Mason	31.1	42.7%	42.1%	10.6%	1,378
Dickens	30.9	45.2%	40.0%	23.7%	672
Ellis	30.9	22.5%	50.3%	12.5%	91,151
Hays	30.8	22.8%	48.7%	11.8%	110,114
Hill	30.8	29.8%	44.9%	14.1%	14,324
Upshur	30.6	19.4%	49.9%	7.1%	16,004
Jack	30.5	37.1%	36.4%	16.5%	2,873
Polk	30.5	33.3%	37.1%	17.1%	17,093
Wood	30.5	34.1%	46.1%	14.2%	15,590
Medina	30.4	28.2%	50.1%	12.6%	19,109
Jackson	30.3	29.9%	47.7%	9.9%	5,662
Henderson	30.1	29.9%	42.5%	14.3%	31,600
Milam	30.1	34.6%	40.9%	16.1%	9,398
Red River	30.1	22.9%	48.4%	10.0%	4,111
Falls	30.0	21.9%	48.9%	7.7%	5,454
Tyler	29.9	36.4%	44.0%	17.7%	6,159
Hardin	29.8	19.3%	51.6%	10.1%	23,000
Live Oak	29.8	40.2%	38.1%	11.6%	3,415
Bosque	29.7	32.9%	41.9%	13.7%	6,847
Sabine	29.7	32.1%	34.0%	11.2%	3,205
Palo Pinto	29.2	41.0%	38.5%	14.1%	11,073
Atascosa	29.1	28.3%	49.1%	9.9%	19,277
Colorado	29.1	39.4%	33.1%	16.2%	8,478
Leon	29.1	28.1%	45.3%	14.5%	5,866
Burleson	29.0	23.6%	49.3%	6.7%	6,632
Harris	29.0	17.2%	47.1%	9.0%	2,001,470
Kendall	29.0	29.2%	50.2%	11.0%	16,890
Limestone	28.9	35.8%	36.6%	11.4%	7,747
Guadalupe	28.8	21.1%	44.8%	10.4%	76,286
Panola	28.8	36.7%	40.3%	13.5%	9,100
Austin	28.7	32.4%	40.8%	16.8%	12,669
Duval	28.6	35.4%	42.0%	12.4%	3,098
San Augustine	28.6	37.5%	39.2%	9.1%	2,480
Jasper	28.4	36.0%	37.5%	14.2%	11,693
Lampasas	28.4	32.0%	38.5%	11.1%	8,351
Denton	28.2	19.9%	44.8%	7.9%	402,702
Houston	28.2	38.5%	38.1%	12.8%	7,228
Collin	28.1	20.5%	44.6%	8.1%	437,092
Burnet	28.0	34.2%	39.9%	13.5%	20,601
Blanco	27.9	36.1%	44.0%	12.8%	4,691
Navarro	27.9	35.9%	32.7%	14.0%	21,370
Williamson	27.9	20.8%	44.0%	7.7%	259,239
Galveston	27.7	23.7%	41.0%	9.8%	148,750
Llano	27.7	30.3%	36.3%	10.8%	7,300
Delta	27.6	21.2%	42.4%	6.8%	2,183
Cherokee	27.5	33.6%	37.8%	10.1%	17,562
Dimmit	27.4	47.0%	30.9%	15.3%	2,354
Gonzales	27.4	39.0%	39.4%	12.4%	8,348
Oldham	27.4	30.7%	49.2%	8.1%	774
Freestone	27.3	34.7%	38.4%	9.3%	6,792
Winkler	27.3	47.3%	35.1%	21.5%	3,468
Dallas	27.2	19.5%	42.6%	7.7%	1,116,054
McMullen	27.2	36.3%	31.2%	9.0%	234
Sterling	27.1	41.4%	37.0%	9.7%	503
Concho	26.7	41.5%	43.3%	5.9%	1,038
Tarrant	26.7	20.9%	40.7%	7.0%	920,959
Callahan	26.6	24.8%	35.8%	7.9%	5,552
Clay	26.6	23.0%	34.4%	7.3%	4,647
Coke	26.4	39.3%	45.6%	11.5%	1,288
Robertson	26.4	32.4%	39.3%	6.4%	6,445
Franklin	26.3	33.9%	29.1%	11.6%	3,744
Grayson	26.3	32.4%	33.4%	10.3%	58,079
Yoakum	26.2	40.7%	40.7%	11.7%	3,053
Jim Hogg	26.1	53.4%	32.8%	23.2%	1,637
Morris	26.1	24.2%	39.6%	5.8%	4,723
Rusk	26.1	29.1%	40.1%	6.6%	20,207
Stephens	26.1	54.0%	29.9%	15.1%	3,637
Upton	26.1	44.9%	38.8%	18.0%	1,285
Glasscock	26.0	45.4%	33.3%	10.9%	403
Walker	26.0	27.9%	35.2%	8.5%	27,301
Madison	25.9	45.2%	37.4%	10.6%	4,607
Bexar	25.8	20.7%	36.9%	6.1%	849,145
Cooke	25.8	37.4%	38.3%	9.2%	18,832
Lynn	25.8	33.6%	39.8%	6.1%	2,281
Cass	25.7	35.9%	39.8%	9.5%	10,267
San Saba	25.4	46.8%	30.5%	14.5%	2,249
Travis	25.4	21.4%	37.1%	5.7%	536,452
Ector	25.3	30.0%	29.7%	8.8%	71,687
Irion	25.3	42.6%	40.3%	9.5%	559
Wharton	25.3	37.9%	33.6%	12.4%	16,957
Orange	25.1	24.6%	34.8%	5.8%	36,159
Zapata	25.1	57.1%	22.5%	15.9%	4,258
Lavaca	24.9	42.3%	29.8%	12.6%	8,546
Eastland	24.8	49.2%	26.6%	14.0%	7,180
Jim Wells	24.8	35.1%	38.4%	11.0%	13,552
Jones	24.8	31.1%	34.0%	6.2%	6,186
DeWitt	24.7	43.7%	33.0%	10.0%	7,086
Anderson	24.6	34.4%	32.9%	6.2%	19,272
Crane	24.5	49.7%	38.8%	12.8%	2,165
Crosby	24.5	39.5%	46.6%	4.9%	2,136
Garza	24.5	58.2%	38.8%	7.4%	1,716
Starr	24.4	40.6%	25.9%	9.4%	21,317
Childress	24.3	59.6%	37.0%	13.7%	2,802
Coryell	24.3	39.2%	27.5%	9.5%	31,564
Fayette	24.3	46.7%	23.1%	10.8%	10,132
Runnels	24.3	39.5%	38.3%	8.6%	4,278
Shelby	24.3	42.8%	29.9%	8.5%	9,667
El Paso	24.2	22.8%	30.8%	4.4%	351,728
Aransas	24.0	46.3%	26.4%	8.2%	7,760
Fisher	24.0	46.1%	32.2%	7.6%	1,629
Armstrong	23.9	28.3%	39.7%	0.8%	781
Gaines	23.9	52.1%	28.0%	14.3%	8,249
Carson	23.8	36.0%	38.9%	5.7%	2,672
Hudspeth	23.8	41.9%	46.1%	5.2%	903
Camp	23.7	32.2%	26.1%	9.3%	4,774
Shackelford	23.5	45.8%	36.4%	9.6%	1,390
Bell	23.4	33.0%	26.9%	7.8%	157,528
Maverick	23.4	38.8%	21.1%	8.6%	21,022
Matagorda	23.3	41.8%	33.4%	6.8%	14,338
Mills	23.3	50.6%	30.6%	8.9%	1,782
San Patricio	23.3	31.9%	33.5%	5.8%	27,557
Smith	23.3	26.6%	29.1%	5.4%	98,177
Refugio	23.2	51.6%	34.6%	9.6%	2,541
Hopkins	23.0	42.8%	26.8%	8.8%	15,831
Hidalgo	22.9	31.4%	26.9%	4.5%	307,771
Hockley	22.8	47.6%	34.5%	6.6%	8,988
Hansford	22.6	54.8%	27.1%	8.7%	2,409
Sutton	22.6	61.2%	20.4%	15.4%	1,414
Wheeler	22.6	47.9%	32.6%	11.6%	2,199
Cottle	22.5	44.5%	39.9%	9.6%	436
Harrison	22.5	36.0%	28.1%	5.3%	29,246
Archer	22.4	28.1%	21.6%	4.4%	3,715
Cochran	22.3	45.2%	41.7%	6.0%	969
Briscoe	22.2	45.2%	28.0%	16.4%	507
Victoria	22.2	37.2%	25.7%	5.4%	38,710
Dawson	22.1	58.4%	30.1%	13.2%	4,480
Gillespie	22.0	49.3%	24.0%	8.3%	10,678
Martin	22.0	38.5%	26.5%	4.7%	2,259
Gregg	21.9	39.0%	21.2%	6.3%	52,986
Kimble	21.9	46.3%	34.3%	5.8%	1,939
Webb	21.9	31.4%	23.5%	5.1%	106,097
Andrews	21.8	55.0%	31.0%	6.8%	8,453
Angelina	21.6	42.9%	21.5%	6.7%	35,251
Midland	21.5	33.3%	23.5%	4.9%	80,013
Nueces	21.4	28.3%	18.7%	4.5%	152,037
Real	21.3	50.9%	16.8%	4.3%	576
Bee	21.2	52.9%	25.0%	8.7%	9,970
Washington	21.2	46.2%	21.5%	9.0%	15,121
Ward	21.1	53.3%	29.7%	6.1%	5,014
Erath	21.0	52.7%	22.5%	7.1%	19,494
Jefferson	21.0	30.7%	23.0%	5.4%	99,168
Mitchell	21.0	45.4%	34.6%	3.3%	3,555
McLennan	20.7	33.4%	19.7%	4.2%	109,824
Cameron	20.6	32.8%	22.0%	3.1%	156,697
Comanche	20.6	44.5%	27.4%	4.8%	5,856
Zavala	20.6	47.5%	16.0%	7.7%	3,263
Kerr	20.5	45.0%	23.1%	6.0%	20,629
Kleberg	20.5	56.6%	23.0%	7.3%	12,718
Howard	20.4	53.9%	25.3%	7.2%	13,057
Swisher	20.4	55.8%	28.3%	9.8%	2,545
Karnes	20.2	45.3%	26.4%	7.7%	4,768
Reagan	20.2	61.8%	28.3%	14.6%	1,271
Frio	20.1	48.0%	23.2%	7.8%	6,281
Hutchinson	20.0	50.9%	22.3%	7.7%	8,491
Randall	20.0	35.1%	18.2%	4.8%	67,740
Terry	19.9	54.4%	30.0%	4.8%	4,550
Willacy	19.9	50.1%	25.4%	2.9%	7,372
Nacogdoches	19.8	46.2%	19.9%	5.5%	26,214
Potter	19.7	33.6%	17.4%	5.4%	45,969
Scurry	19.7	61.6%	15.8%	8.2%	6,537
Hamilton	19.6	57.3%	29.7%	6.5%	3,144
Titus	19.6	46.7%	17.5%	6.0%	12,834
Tom Green	19.6	46.3%	13.0%	6.0%	52,432
Lamar	19.5	45.9%	16.7%	6.3%	21,041
Floyd	19.3	49.2%	24.5%	6.8%	2,269
Bowie	19.2	50.0%	19.2%	4.1%	35,792
Brown	19.2	53.1%	15.8%	5.7%	15,785
Lipscomb	19.1	51.3%	20.3%	6.2%	1,216
McCulloch	19.0	61.6%	17.6%	4.7%	2,640
Motley	18.7	53.6%	23.3%	11.9%	537
Hemphill	18.6	65.8%	23.4%	8.3%	1,424
Brazos	18.5	40.0%	15.0%	3.9%	104,053
Menard	18.5	59.5%	25.6%	8.5%	610
Calhoun	18.3	42.3%	21.3%	3.1%	9,237
Young	18.2	60.7%	18.0%	6.6%	8,015
Hale	18.1	55.1%	21.3%	6.0%	13,031
Parmer	17.8	44.9%	22.1%	4.0%	4,575
Sherman	17.8	62.1%	23.8%	7.7%	1,091
Kinney	17.7	83.5%	15.9%	7.6%	1,354
Val Verde	17.7	48.8%	12.2%	4.5%	19,966
Gray	17.4	63.7%	24.1%	6.6%	8,600
Moore	17.4	48.3%	17.6%	3.3%	9,703
Pecos	17.4	71.3%	19.6%	9.8%	5,722
Uvalde	17.4	58.6%	17.0%	7.0%	9,816
Roberts	17.3	37.4%	20.3%	1.1%	364
La Salle	17.0	63.7%	24.8%	7.2%	2,013
Lubbock	16.9	47.2%	10.8%	3.3%	142,617
Deaf Smith	16.8	56.4%	18.3%	4.4%	7,915
Stonewall	16.8	63.5%	24.2%	7.6%	578
Reeves	16.7	57.8%	22.9%	5.5%	5,644
Nolan	16.6	61.5%	18.1%	4.5%	6,140
Brewster	16.5	62.5%	21.5%	5.7%	4,392
Foard	16.5	55.1%	24.2%	2.6%	463
Ochiltree	16.5	62.5%	17.5%	5.3%	4,714
Lamb	16.4	60.3%	22.6%	4.7%	5,429
Taylor	16.4	47.9%	9.5%	3.1%	65,313
Throckmorton	16.4	52.3%	30.5%	3.6%	692
Haskell	16.3	55.3%	18.3%	4.3%	2,113
Hall	16.2	60.3%	20.9%	6.4%	1,028
Knox	16.2	65.4%	14.2%	9.7%	1,390
Donley	16.0	57.1%	20.6%	6.9%	1,217
Hardeman	16.0	55.4%	17.8%	2.5%	1,687
Kent	15.8	61.1%	19.7%	2.0%	244
Baylor	15.6	64.8%	22.4%	2.6%	1,297
Wichita	15.1	57.0%	8.0%	3.0%	58,608
Bailey	14.7	68.4%	13.8%	6.4%	2,393
Brooks	14.7	72.6%	14.8%	5.1%	3,261
Wilbarger	14.7	65.4%	13.7%	3.4%	5,302
Castro	14.3	61.0%	15.6%	4.3%	3,292
Collingsworth	14.1	66.3%	22.5%	2.5%	1,220
Dallam	13.7	70.3%	14.7%	2.8%	3,780
Borden	13.6	61.5%	19.9%	0.0%	296
Edwards	13.3	74.2%	21.9%	2.0%	608
Hartley	12.6	64.8%	8.7%	1.5%	1,626
King	12.5	68.2%	18.8%	2.4%	85
Terrell	12.1	72.9%	16.7%	2.9%	306
Culberson	11.6	79.0%	16.4%	4.5%	902
Jeff Davis	11.4	76.3%	15.6%	1.8%	455
Presidio	9.7	86.1%	13.8%	0.9%	2,122
Kenedy	,	16.7%	54.2%	29.2%	24
Loving	,	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	22

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Mean travel time, Texas counties

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Mean travel time, all 252 counties reporting

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Share commuting 60 minutes or more, all 254 counties

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Mean travel time against hour-plus share

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About this data

Mean travel time is aggregate minutes from table B08013 divided by workers who did not work from home from table B08303. People who work from home are left out of both the mean and the time-bucket shares.
A county mean is the average commute inside that county. County means cannot be averaged to produce a state figure. The statewide 26.7 minutes counts every commuter once; the typical county is 24.3 minutes.
The Census suppressed aggregate travel time for Kenedy (24 commuters) and Loving (22 commuters). Those mean cells are shown as an em dash and are excluded from the mean ranking and the scatter. Time-bucket shares are still published for both counties.
Shares come from the travel-time buckets in B08303. In the smallest counties a handful of people can swing a percentage a long way, so Kenedy’s 29.2 percent hour-plus share (7 of 24 commuters) should be read with a wide margin of error.

In short

Mean travel time, Texas counties

Mean travel time, all 252 counties reporting

Share commuting 60 minutes or more, all 254 counties

Mean travel time against hour-plus share

All counties

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