Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · TX · GEOID 48760002024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Waco, Texas
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 18.7 min one way; 9.7% worked from home, 75.7% drove alone, and 3.7% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip18.7 min±1.0 min MOE
Worked from home9.7%±1.1 pp MOE
Drove alone75.7%±1.5 pp MOE
60+ minute trip3.7%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 Waco city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +1.0 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +3.9 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 Waco city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 75.7%; 0.7% used public transit and 9.7% worked from home.
Each share uses 66,671 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Waco city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 10th 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 lower than about 90% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 77% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 69% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 77% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Waco city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 66,671 workers age 16+, including 60,192 workers with reported travel time and 6,479 home workers.
Population estimate143,570± 93 MOE
Workers age 16+66,671± 1,538 MOE
Workers with travel time60,192± 1,695 MOE
Estimated home workers6,479± 746 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 Waco city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.