Commute Guide · SW Austin Corridor

    Circle C Ranch commute guide.

    Drive times from Circle C to the places buyers actually need to get to — Apple, Tesla, Domain, downtown — at peak and off-peak. These are working estimates from clients and repeated personal drives, not best-case Google headlines.
    Destination Peak (5pm) Off-Peak Primary Route
    Apple Campus (Parmer) 32 min 20 min MoPac N → 183 N → Parmer
    Tesla Gigafactory (SH-130) 42 min 28 min Slaughter → SH-45 → SH-130
    The Domain 35 min 22 min MoPac N → 183
    Downtown Austin 28 min 18 min MoPac N → 5th / 6th
    Austin-Bergstrom Airport (AUS) 25 min 18 min Slaughter → SH-45 → SH-71
    St. David's South Austin 20 min 13 min Brodie / William Cannon
    UT Austin Campus 32 min 22 min MoPac N → 38th / Lake Austin
    Whole Foods Domain / Arboretum 33 min 20 min MoPac N

    Drive-time visual (peak).

    Apple Campus (Parmer)32 min
    Tesla Gigafactory (SH-130)42 min
    The Domain35 min
    Downtown Austin28 min
    Austin-Bergstrom Airport (AUS)25 min

    Bars scaled to a 45-minute reference. Peak = 5pm weekday departure from Circle C.

    What buyers usually get wrong

    MoPac North from Slaughter is faster than it looks midday and slower than it looks at 5pm — the bottleneck is the Loop 360 merge, not the on-ramp. For Apple commuters, SH-45 → 183 is more consistent than MoPac at peak.

    For Tesla, the SH-45 → SH-130 routing is the single biggest reason Circle C beats most other AISD-pipeline neighborhoods on commute. You stay off I-35 entirely.

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