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Carroll County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Carroll County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Carroll 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 139 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Carroll County holds about 0.9% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Carroll County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,718 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)
Carroll County 16.6 min 33.3 min 139 hrs/yr $4,296 559
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Arkansas
  1. Arkansas County (11.9 min)
  2. Phillips County (13.2 min)
  3. Howard County (13.4 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Arkansas
  1. Perry County (32.2 min)
  2. Newton County (31.6 min)
  3. Madison County (31.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Carroll County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.6 minutes to get to work in Carroll County. That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 76% of 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 11.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Carroll County

  • Car: 81.4%
  • Worked at Home: 11.2%
  • Walked: 4.0%
  • Other: 2.8%
  • Motorcycle: 0.3%
  • Bicycle: 0.3%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Carroll County: 5.2 times less than the Arkansas average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Carroll County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Carroll 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.

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 Motorcycle Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi
2009 87.3% 8.5% 3.3% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 87.4% 8.0% 3.7% 0.7% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 88.2% 7.6% 3.5% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 89.2% 6.4% 3.6% 0.3% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 89.2% 5.9% 4.3% 0.4% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 90.5% 4.6% 4.1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2015 90.1% 4.8% 4.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 91.4% 3.9% 4.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 90.7% 5.0% 3.8% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 91.0% 5.8% 2.7% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 89.9% 6.7% 2.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 87.8% 7.2% 3.6% 1.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2021 85.2% 8.6% 3.9% 2.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2022 84.5% 8.7% 3.4% 3.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2023 81.8% 10.8% 3.8% 2.9% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 81.4% 11.2% 4.0% 2.8% 0.3% 0.3% 0.1% 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 91.4%. Overall it fell from 87.3% in 2009 to 81.4% in 2024, down 5.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Carroll County: its share of workers rose from 8.5% in 2009 to 11.2% in 2024, up 2.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Carroll County

  • Night OwlThe latest start among Arkansas's 75 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 7:43 AM.
  • Sleeping InThe 2nd-highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among Arkansas's 75 counties: 28.1% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Carroll County?

The bars show when commuters in Carroll 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
6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
5.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
9.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
5.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
4.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
9.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Carroll County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are less common than in Arkansas: 13.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 47.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.1%) 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Carroll County Arkansas United States
2009 7:45 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:43 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:38 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:37 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:36 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:36 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:36 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:35 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:35 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:37 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:35 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:40 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:39 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:37 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:29 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:43 AM 7:25 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Carroll County were on the road by 7:43 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:45 AM). Arkansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Carroll County now leave 5 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 Carroll County has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Carroll County's commute time compare?

Metric Carroll County Arkansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 16.6 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 11.2% 8.8% 15.0%
Walked 4.0% 1.4% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Carroll County is 16.6 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 4.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Carroll County, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Carroll County, AR is typical in size for this group, 28,630 residents against a local median of 32,050, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Carroll County, AR apart most is one-way commute: 16.6 min, 35% below the local median of 25.6 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 15.3 min on one-way commute, so Carroll County, AR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Carroll County, AR has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Carroll County, AR 28,630 16.6 min #2/6 11.2% #3/6 7:43 AM #6/6
Madison County, AR 17,329 31.1 min 8.8% 7:10 AM
Stone County, MO 32,050 25.6 min 11.9% 7:32 AM
Boone County, AR 38,139 16.3 min 10.0% 7:32 AM
Barry County, MO 35,028 17.7 min 10.5% 7:12 AM
Newton County, AR 7,111 31.6 min 16.1% 7:11 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Carroll County, Arkansas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Carroll County, Arkansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 139 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,296 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Carroll County, Arkansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Carroll County, Arkansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Carroll County, Arkansas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Arkansas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Arkansas have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Arkansas, the shortest average commutes are in Arkansas County (11.9 min), Phillips County (13.2 min), Howard County (13.4 min). The longest are in Perry County (32.2 min), Newton County (31.6 min), Madison County (31.1 min).