Bentonville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bentonville, 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 Bentonville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bentonville spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 145 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Bentonville holds about 1.6% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bentonville would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,793 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)
Bentonville	17.4 min	34.7 min	145 hrs/yr	$4,482	3,790
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.

Bentonville Commute Map

On average, it takes 17.4 minutes to get to work in Bentonville. That's 23% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 18.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bentonville

Biking is unusually common in Bentonville: 4.6 times more than the Arkansas average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Bentonville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bentonville 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	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	93.5%	2.4%	2.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	93.5%	2.4%	2.3%	1.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	92.8%	2.6%	2.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	93.1%	2.9%	2.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	92.9%	3.3%	2.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.7%	3.5%	2.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	92.1%	3.9%	2.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	93.0%	3.3%	2.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	93.3%	2.8%	3.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	94.5%	2.2%	2.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	94.3%	3.0%	1.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	91.6%	5.7%	1.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	86.1%	11.3%	1.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	81.2%	15.7%	1.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	79.2%	17.4%	1.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	77.6%	18.5%	1.8%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2018 at 94.5%. Overall it fell from 93.5% in 2009 to 77.6% in 2024, down 15.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bentonville: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 18.5% in 2024, up 16.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 15.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Bentonville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bentonville?

The bars show when commuters in Bentonville 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		3.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		20.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bentonville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are less common than in Arkansas: 8.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arkansas: 59.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.7%) 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 Bentonville, 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 Bentonville 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 Bentonville 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	Bentonville	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:38 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:42 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bentonville were on the road by 7:42 AM, 15 minutes later than in 2009 (7:28 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Bentonville now leave 4 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Bentonville has moved 13 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Bentonville in the whole series.

How does Bentonville's commute time compare?

Metric	Bentonville	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.4 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	18.5%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bentonville is 17.4 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bentonville, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Bentonville, AR compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Bentonville, AR	48,704	17.4 min #2/2	18.5% #1/2	7:42 AM #2/2
Rogers, AR	65,107	16.9 min	13.8%	7:26 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bentonville, Arkansas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Bentonville, Arkansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 145 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,482 at a typical national wage. That's 7% less than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Bentonville, Arkansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Bentonville, Arkansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is Bentonville, Arkansas a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 18.5% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Bentonville would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,793 at the same national wage assumption used above.