Ashley County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Ashley County, Arkansas: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Ashley County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ashley County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 131 hours, about 5.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Ashley County holds about 0.6% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Ashley County would save about 52 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,619 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Ashley County	15.7 min	31.3 min	131 hrs/yr	$4,048	199
Arkansas	18.6 min	37.2 min	155 hrs/yr	$4,807	912
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Commute Time Map: Arkansas Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Arkansas

Arkansas County (11.9 min)
Phillips County (13.2 min)
Howard County (13.4 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Arkansas

Perry County (32.2 min)
Newton County (31.6 min)
Madison County (31.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Ashley County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.7 minutes to get to work in Ashley County. That's 30% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 91% of counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ashley County

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Ashley County, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.

Walking is unusually rare in Ashley County: 3.3 times less than the Arkansas average (0.4% vs 1.4%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Ashley County, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.

Biking is unusually common in Ashley County: 4.1 times more than the Arkansas average (0.6% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Ashley County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ashley County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.5%	1.3%	3.3%	0.2%	0.3%	2.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	93.6%	1.2%	2.5%	0.2%	0.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	92.0%	2.0%	3.0%	0.1%	0.6%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	91.9%	2.3%	3.4%	0.0%	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	92.0%	2.1%	4.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	92.8%	2.6%	2.1%	0.0%	0.3%	1.8%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	92.5%	2.7%	2.4%	0.1%	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	91.6%	2.7%	2.3%	0.4%	0.2%	2.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	92.9%	1.6%	2.4%	0.4%	0.2%	2.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	91.3%	2.0%	3.4%	0.3%	0.3%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.0%	2.1%	3.1%	0.4%	0.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.6%	2.0%	1.7%	0.7%	0.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.4%	3.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.1%	2.8%	2.2%	0.3%	0.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.4%	3.0%	2.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.6%	3.3%	1.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2021 at 94.4% and lowest in 2018 at 91.3%. Overall it rose from 92.5% in 2009 to 93.6% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ashley County: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 3.3% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Ashley County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ashley County?

The bars show when commuters in Ashley County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Arkansas for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		14.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		5.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.7%

Ashley County Arkansas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Ashley County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.3% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 22.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 45.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.5%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Ashley County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Ashley County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Ashley County next to Arkansas and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Ashley County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:08 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:00 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:02 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:06 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:05 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:09 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:59 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ashley County were on the road by 6:59 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:14 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arkansas, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Ashley County now leave 38 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Ashley County has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Ashley County in the whole series.

How does Ashley County's commute time compare?

Metric	Ashley County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.7 min	18.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.3%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ashley County is 15.7 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Ashley County, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Ashley County, AR is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 18,425 residents against a local median of 10,208. The measure that sets Ashley County, AR apart most is work from home: 3.3%, 20% below the local median of 4.1%.

The counties themselves spread 3.4% on work from home, so Ashley County, AR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Ashley County, AR has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Ashley County, AR	18,425	15.7 min #2/6	3.3% #5/6	6:59 AM #1/6
Morehouse Parish, LA	24,551	20.1 min	4.1%	7:12 AM
Drew County, AR	17,048	16.5 min	4.2%	7:16 AM
Bradley County, AR	10,208	13.8 min	2.3%	7:07 AM
Chicot County, AR	9,757	16.5 min	3.8%	7:04 AM
West Carroll Parish, LA	9,464	20.4 min	5.8%	7:17 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Ashley County, Arkansas.

Is living in Ashley County, Arkansas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 131 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,048 at a typical national wage. That's 16% less than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Ashley County, Arkansas?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Ashley County, Arkansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Arkansas?

Among counties in Arkansas, the shortest average commutes are in Arkansas County (11.9 min), Phillips County (13.2 min), Howard County (13.4 min). The longest are in Perry County (32.2 min), Newton County (31.6 min), Madison County (31.1 min).