What is the average commute in Dumas city, Texas?

The 2024 ACS five-year mean one-way commute estimate is 18.8 min, excluding people who worked from home.

What share of workers in Dumas city, Texas work from home?

The 2024 ACS five-year work-from-home estimate is 0.8%, with a margin of error of plus or minus 1.0 percentage points.

Are the 2021 and 2024 commute estimates independent?

No. The five-year periods overlap, so their difference is presented as directional rather than an independent annual or causal change.

PLACE · TX · GEOID 48215562024 5-YEAR

COMMUTE PROFILE

Dumas, Texas

Name: Commute estimates for Dumas city, Texas
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According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 18.8 min one way; 0.8% worked from home, 82.4% drove alone, and 5.8% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.

Mean one-way trip18.8 min±3.1 min MOE

Worked from home0.8%±1.0 pp MOE

Drove alone82.4%±4.9 pp MOE

60+ minute trip5.8%among commuters

U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.

01 / THE SHIFT

What changed in Dumas city's published commute estimate?

From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -0.1 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +0.5 percentage points.

These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.

Mean commute18.9 min → 18.8 min▼ 0.1 min

Average for workers who did not work from home.

Work from home0.3% → 0.8%▲ 0.5 pp

Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.

Public transit0.0% → 0.2%▲ 0.2 pp

Public transportation excluding taxi.

Drive alone83.3% → 82.4%▼ 0.9 pp

Car, truck, or van—drove alone.

02 / MODE SHARE

How Dumas city residents usually get to work

Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 82.4%; 0.2% used public transit and 0.8% worked from home.

Drive alone82.4% ±4.9 pp

Carpool11.5% ±2.9 pp

Public transit0.2% ±0.3 pp

Walk5.1% ±2.7 pp

Bicycle0.0% ±0.3 pp

Work from home0.8% ±1.0 pp

Each share uses 6,648 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.

03 / PEER CONTEXT

How Dumas city compares with similar-size places

This place's mean commute is at the 15th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.

Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.

15^thMean commute percentile

Mean commute time is lower than about 85% of covered places in the under 25k population band.

1^thWork-from-home percentile

The work-from-home share is lower than about 99% of covered places in the under 25k population band.

43^thTransit percentile

The public-transit share is lower than about 57% of covered places in the under 25k population band.

44^th60+ minute percentile

The 60+ minute share is lower than about 56% of covered places in the under 25k population band.

04 / ESTIMATE BASE

The counts behind Dumas city's commute shares

The 2024 estimates cover 6,648 workers age 16+, including 6,597 workers with reported travel time and 51 home workers.

Population estimate14,452± 19 MOE

Workers age 16+6,648± 510 MOE

Workers with travel time6,597± 527 MOE

Estimated home workers51± 66 MOE

Why the ± matters

ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.

05 / SAME STATE

Comparable Texas commute records for Dumas city

These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.

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