Bella Vista Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bella Vista: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bella Vista spend about 50 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 208 hours, about 8.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.

Bella Vista holds about 0.9% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bella Vista would save about 83 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,584 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)
Bella Vista	25.0 min	50.0 min	208 hrs/yr	$6,459	3,114
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.

Bella Vista Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.0 minutes to get to work in Bella Vista. That's 12% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 22.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bella Vista

• Car: 76.3%
• Worked at Home: 22.3%
• Other: 1.0%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Bella Vista: 5.9 times less than the Arkansas average (0.2% vs 1.4%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Bella Vista: 683974769.6 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Bella Vista, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.

Biking is unusually rare in Bella Vista: 4228055.1 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Bella Vista: just 0.2%, 6.5 times below the Arkansas average of 1.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Bella Vista, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bella Vista 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.5%	4.5%	1.4%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.6%	4.4%	0.9%	1.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.9%	4.2%	1.1%	1.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.9%	5.0%	0.3%	2.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.6%	4.5%	0.3%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.6%	5.7%	0.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.6%	5.9%	0.3%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.7%	5.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.6%	5.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	93.4%	4.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	93.5%	4.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	89.4%	8.2%	1.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	85.8%	11.8%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	83.1%	14.8%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	80.5%	18.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	76.3%	22.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 93.7%. Overall it fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 76.3% in 2024, down 16.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bella Vista: its share of workers rose from 4.5% in 2009 to 22.3% in 2024, up 17.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Bella Vista

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bella Vista?

The bars show when commuters in Bella Vista 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	12:00-4:59 AM Bella Vista4.2% Arkansas5.6%	4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bella Vista2.1% Arkansas4.1%	2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bella Vista2.3% Arkansas5.2%	2.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bella Vista6.9% Arkansas9.3%	6.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bella Vista16.4% Arkansas11.2%	16.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bella Vista21.5% Arkansas17.5%	21.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bella Vista12.5% Arkansas13.9%	12.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bella Vista9.4% Arkansas9.2%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bella Vista3.4% Arkansas3.6%	3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bella Vista4.8% Arkansas4.5%	4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bella Vista3.3% Arkansas2.2%	3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bella Vista3.2% Arkansas1.1%	3.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bella Vista7.0% Arkansas6.2%	7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bella Vista3.1% Arkansas6.4%	3.1%

Bella Vista Arkansas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Bella Vista is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are less common than in Arkansas: 8.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arkansas: 59.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.4%) 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 Bella Vista, 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 Bella Vista 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 Bella Vista 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.

• Bella Vista
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bella Vista	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:09 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bella Vista were on the road by 7:25 AM, 16 minutes later than in 2009 (7:09 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Bella Vista now leave 12 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 Bella Vista has moved 6 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Bella Vista in the whole series.

How does Bella Vista's commute time compare?

Metric	Bella Vista	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.0 min	18.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 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	22.3%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bella Vista is 25.0 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau