Bradley County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bradley County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bradley County spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 115 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 4.8 minutes.

Bradley County holds about 0.3% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bradley County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,428 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)
Bradley County	13.8 min	27.6 min	115 hrs/yr	$3,569	328
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 13.8 minutes to get to work in Bradley County. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in Arkansas

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 2.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bradley County

• Car: 94.5%
• Worked at Home: 2.3% unusually low
• Walked: 1.7%
• Other: 1.4%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Bradley County: 5.1 times less than the Arkansas average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Bradley County: 3.8 times less than the Arkansas average (2.3% vs 8.8%).

Biking is essentially absent in Bradley County, versus 0.2% in Arkansas.

Commute Mode Trends in Bradley County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bradley 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	83.6%	1.8%	11.2%	3.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	86.8%	3.6%	7.4%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	90.0%	3.7%	2.8%	2.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	89.9%	4.6%	2.9%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	88.9%	6.2%	2.9%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.7%	4.7%	1.2%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.3%	5.6%	0.6%	1.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	90.5%	5.9%	0.9%	2.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.7%	4.5%	1.0%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.4%	2.7%	2.0%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.3%	2.2%	3.9%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.0%	1.5%	3.3%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.0%	0.6%	3.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.4%	1.3%	3.5%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.4%	1.5%	3.6%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.5%	2.3%	1.7%	1.4%	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. Overall its share rose from 83.6% in 2009 to 94.5% in 2024, up 10.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 11.2% to 1.7% of workers (down 9.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 6.2% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 2.3%.

Commute Start Times in Bradley County

• ⏰ Earlier AlarmsThe 3rd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Arkansas's 75 counties: the typical start is 26 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bradley County?

The bars show when commuters in Bradley 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 Bradley County6.7% Arkansas5.6%	6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bradley County11.8% Arkansas4.1%	11.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bradley County5.5% Arkansas5.2%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bradley County10.1% Arkansas9.3%	10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bradley County12.5% Arkansas11.2%	12.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bradley County15.2% Arkansas17.5%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bradley County12.4% Arkansas13.9%	12.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bradley County9.7% Arkansas9.2%	9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bradley County1.6% Arkansas3.6%	1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bradley County4.0% Arkansas4.5%	4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bradley County0.8% Arkansas2.2%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bradley County0.7% Arkansas1.1%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bradley County5.7% Arkansas6.2%	5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bradley County3.3% Arkansas6.4%	3.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bradley County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 24.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 49.7% 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 Bradley 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 Bradley 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 Bradley 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.

• Bradley County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bradley County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:10 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:02 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:02 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:03 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:07 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bradley County were on the road by 7:07 AM, 26 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arkansas, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Bradley County now leave 31 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 Bradley County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Bradley County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bradley County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.8 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	2.3%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bradley County is 13.8 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau