Chicot County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Chicot County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chicot 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 137 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 2.2 minutes.

Chicot County holds about 0.3% of Arkansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Chicot County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,700 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)
Chicot County	16.5 min	32.9 min	137 hrs/yr	$4,250	459
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 16.5 minutes to get to work in Chicot County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 80% of counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chicot County

• Car: 95.1%
• Worked at Home: 3.8%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Other: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Chicot County: 3.2 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Chicot County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	84.4%	4.0%	3.0%	0.1%	8.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	85.7%	3.8%	2.7%	0.5%	7.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.4%	3.1%	3.6%	0.3%	6.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.5%	3.3%	3.2%	0.3%	4.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	87.6%	2.2%	4.0%	0.7%	5.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.0%	1.3%	1.7%	1.3%	3.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.4%	0.4%	2.4%	1.1%	3.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.5%	1.3%	2.1%	1.4%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	91.2%	1.7%	1.7%	1.3%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	88.6%	2.0%	3.6%	1.7%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2019	87.2%	2.2%	6.9%	0.2%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2020	89.1%	2.1%	5.2%	0.2%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	90.9%	1.6%	5.4%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	90.3%	3.1%	5.3%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.1%	4.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	95.1%	3.8%	0.7%	0.3%	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 84.4% in 2009 to 95.1% in 2024, up 10.7 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 0.7% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 1.7% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Chicot County

• 🚦 Rush-Hour RegularsThe 3rd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Arkansas's 75 counties: 58.1% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chicot County?

The bars show when commuters in Chicot 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 Chicot County3.0% Arkansas5.6%	3.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Chicot County2.5% Arkansas4.1%	2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Chicot County8.6% Arkansas5.2%	8.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Chicot County13.7% Arkansas9.3%	13.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Chicot County19.6% Arkansas11.2%	19.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Chicot County17.9% Arkansas17.5%	17.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Chicot County11.6% Arkansas13.9%	11.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Chicot County9.0% Arkansas9.2%	9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Chicot County0.4% Arkansas3.6%	0.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Chicot County2.3% Arkansas4.5%	2.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Chicot County1.6% Arkansas2.2%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Chicot County0.8% Arkansas1.1%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Chicot County5.8% Arkansas6.2%	5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Chicot County3.1% Arkansas6.4%	3.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chicot County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 19.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.2% across Arkansas. Early starts are about as common as in Arkansas: 14.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arkansas: 58.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.6%) 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 Chicot 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 Chicot 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 Chicot 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.

• Chicot County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Chicot County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:15 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:08 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:03 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:04 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:08 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:04 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chicot County were on the road by 7:04 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:14 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arkansas, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Chicot County now leave 34 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 Chicot County has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Chicot County's commute time compare?

Metric	Chicot County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.5 min	18.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.8%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chicot County is 16.5 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Arkansas. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau