Boone County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Boone County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Boone County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 136 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.3 minutes.

Boone County holds about 1.3% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Boone County would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,685 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)
Boone County	16.3 min	32.6 min	136 hrs/yr	$4,213	470
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

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On average, it takes 16.3 minutes to get to work in Boone County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 84% of counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Boone County

• Car: 86.9%
• Worked at Home: 10.0%
• Walked: 2.1%
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Biking is unusually rare in Boone County: 3.7 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Boone County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Boone 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	91.2%	5.8%	1.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	92.2%	5.6%	1.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.6%	5.1%	1.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.2%	4.2%	1.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.2%	2.8%	0.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	95.2%	2.6%	0.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	94.4%	2.5%	1.2%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	94.3%	2.7%	1.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	93.8%	3.8%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	93.2%	4.5%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	93.6%	4.2%	1.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.4%	5.7%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.8%	8.1%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.9%	8.3%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	87.0%	10.0%	2.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.9%	10.0%	2.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	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 2013 at 95.2%. Overall it fell from 91.2% in 2009 to 86.9% in 2024, down 4.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Boone County: its share of workers rose from 5.8% in 2009 to 10.0% in 2024, up 4.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Boone County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Boone County?

The bars show when commuters in Boone 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	12:00-4:59 AM Boone County4.3% Arkansas5.6%	4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Boone County2.6% Arkansas4.1%	2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Boone County6.3% Arkansas5.2%	6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Boone County8.4% Arkansas9.3%	8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Boone County14.1% Arkansas11.2%	14.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Boone County13.2% Arkansas17.5%	13.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Boone County18.6% Arkansas13.9%	18.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Boone County8.6% Arkansas9.2%	8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Boone County3.2% Arkansas3.6%	3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Boone County4.4% Arkansas4.5%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Boone County1.7% Arkansas2.2%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Boone County0.5% Arkansas1.1%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Boone County8.6% Arkansas6.2%	8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Boone County5.4% Arkansas6.4%	5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Boone County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across Arkansas. Early starts are less common than in Arkansas: 13.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arkansas: 54.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.7%) 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 Boone 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 Boone 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 Boone 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.

• Boone County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Boone County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Boone County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Arkansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Boone County now leave 6 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 Boone County has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Boone County's commute time compare?

Metric	Boone County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.3 min	18.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	10.0%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Boone County is 16.3 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 2.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau