Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · TX · GEOID 48580162024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Plano, Texas
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 25.4 min one way; 27.5% worked from home, 61.5% drove alone, and 5.3% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip25.4 min±0.9 min MOE
Worked from home27.5%±1.0 pp MOE
Drove alone61.5%±1.2 pp MOE
60+ minute trip5.3%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 Plano city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -1.1 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +9.6 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 Plano city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 61.5%; 0.7% used public transit and 27.5% worked from home.
Each share uses 155,370 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Plano city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 56th percentile among covered 100k–500k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is higher than about 56% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 94% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 70% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 53% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Plano city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 155,370 workers age 16+, including 112,603 workers with reported travel time and 42,767 home workers.
Population estimate290,594± 98 MOE
Workers age 16+155,370± 2,206 MOE
Workers with travel time112,603± 2,249 MOE
Estimated home workers42,767± 1,709 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 Plano city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.