Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · TX · GEOID 48350002024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Houston, Texas
Mean one-way trip27.2 min±0.4 min MOE
Worked from home13.0%±0.3 pp MOE
Drove alone67.7%±0.5 pp MOE
60+ minute trip7.4%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 the published estimate?
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 residents usually get to work
Each share uses 1,124,668 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
Compared with similar-size places
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is higher than about 76% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 79% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 63% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
The 60+ minute share is higher than about 74% of covered places in the 500k+ population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind the shares
Population estimate2,328,253± 196 MOE
Workers age 16+1,124,668± 8,203 MOE
Workers with travel time978,341± 7,818 MOE
Estimated home workers146,327± 3,929 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
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