Bryant Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bryant: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bryant spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 199 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.3 minutes.

Bryant holds about 0.7% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bryant would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,473 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)
Bryant	23.9 min	47.9 min	199 hrs/yr	$6,183	2,598
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.

Bryant Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.9 minutes to get to work in Bryant. That's 7% 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 8.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bryant

• Car: 89.5%
• Worked at Home: 8.5%
• Other: 1.3%
• Walked: 0.6%
• 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 Bryant, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.

Public transit is unusually rare in Bryant: 10.9 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Bryant, versus 0.2% in Arkansas.

Commute Mode Trends in Bryant, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bryant 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
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	85.3%	13.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	90.3%	8.5%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	96.7%	2.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	95.8%	3.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	95.5%	3.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	95.7%	2.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	94.1%	4.3%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.9%	3.8%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	95.4%	3.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	94.2%	3.8%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.1%	4.0%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.2%	4.1%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.4%	6.1%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.8%	8.0%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.3%	9.8%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.5%	8.5%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	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 2011 at 96.7%. Overall it rose from 85.3% in 2009 to 89.5% in 2024, up 4.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 13.5% to 8.5% of workers (down 5.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Bryant

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bryant?

The bars show when commuters in Bryant 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 Bryant3.8% Arkansas5.6%	3.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bryant5.2% Arkansas4.1%	5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bryant4.6% Arkansas5.2%	4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bryant10.4% Arkansas9.3%	10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bryant11.2% Arkansas11.2%	11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bryant19.7% Arkansas17.5%	19.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bryant10.9% Arkansas13.9%	10.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bryant8.9% Arkansas9.2%	8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bryant3.9% Arkansas3.6%	3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bryant5.0% Arkansas4.5%	5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bryant1.0% Arkansas2.2%	1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bryant1.0% Arkansas1.1%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bryant6.9% Arkansas6.2%	6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bryant7.3% Arkansas6.4%	7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bryant is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are less common than in Arkansas: 13.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Arkansas's: 50.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.2%) 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 Bryant, 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 Bryant 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 Bryant 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.

• Bryant
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bryant	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 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	7:23 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bryant were on the road by 7:23 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arkansas, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Bryant now leave 15 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Bryant's commute time compare?

Metric	Bryant	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.9 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	8.5%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bryant is 23.9 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau