Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · TX · GEOID 48240002024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
El Paso, Texas
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 23.4 min one way; 8.9% worked from home, 75.4% drove alone, and 3.8% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip23.4 min±0.6 min MOE
Worked from home8.9%±0.6 pp MOE
Drove alone75.4%±0.9 pp MOE
60+ minute trip3.8%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 El Paso 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 +3.2 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How El Paso city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 75.4%; 0.9% used public transit and 8.9% worked from home.
Each share uses 305,134 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How El Paso city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 26th percentile among covered 500k+ places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 74% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 97% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 84% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 79% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind El Paso city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 305,134 workers age 16+, including 277,999 workers with reported travel time and 27,135 home workers.
Population estimate680,130± 130 MOE
Workers age 16+305,134± 3,248 MOE
Workers with travel time277,999± 3,554 MOE
Estimated home workers27,135± 1,858 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
All Texas reports →Comparable Texas commute records for El Paso city
These 5 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.