Cleveland County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Cleveland County, Arkansas: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Cleveland County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cleveland County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cleveland County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,447 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)
Cleveland County	23.7 min	47.4 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,116	496
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

Arkansas County (11.9 min)
Phillips County (13.2 min)
Howard County (13.4 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Arkansas

Perry County (32.2 min)
Newton County (31.6 min)
Madison County (31.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Cleveland County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Cleveland County. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 80% of counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cleveland County

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

Walking is unusually rare in Cleveland County: 4.2 times less than the Arkansas average (0.3% vs 1.4%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Cleveland County: just 0.3%, 4.7 times below the Arkansas average of 1.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Cleveland County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cleveland 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	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.6%	4.1%	1.2%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	95.5%	2.5%	0.6%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	94.7%	3.2%	0.8%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	93.9%	3.9%	0.9%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.2%	3.0%	2.2%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.0%	2.8%	2.6%	0.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.4%	1.7%	2.4%	0.6%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.6%	1.0%	2.0%	0.6%	3.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	93.1%	1.0%	1.9%	0.5%	3.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	93.0%	1.2%	1.0%	0.2%	4.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	93.5%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	3.5%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2020	92.5%	4.0%	0.4%	0.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2021	94.4%	4.1%	0.2%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.0%	3.9%	1.6%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.7%	5.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.7%	4.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.3%	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 was highest in 2010 at 95.5% and lowest in 2020 at 92.5%. Overall it rose from 92.6% in 2009 to 93.7% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cleveland County: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 4.7% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Cleveland County

Hitting SnoozeThe 3rd-biggest shift to later mornings among Arkansas's 75 counties: the typical start is 10 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cleveland County?

The bars show when commuters in Cleveland 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		8.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		19.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		0.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		1.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cleveland County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 19.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arkansas: 54.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.5%) 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 Cleveland 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 Cleveland 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 Cleveland 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	Cleveland County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:03 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:02 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:58 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:04 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:08 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cleveland County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:10 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Cleveland County now leave 18 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 Cleveland County has moved 12 minutes later.

How does Cleveland County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cleveland County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.7 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.7%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cleveland County is 23.7 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Arkansas. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Cleveland County, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Cleveland County, AR is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 7,452 residents against a local median of 12,948. Where Cleveland County, AR breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 29% above the local median of 18.4 min at 23.7 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 14.6 min on one-way commute, so Cleveland County, AR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Cleveland County, AR has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Cleveland County, AR	7,452	23.7 min #5/6	4.7% #4/6	7:20 AM #5/6
Bradley County, AR	10,208	13.8 min	2.3%	7:07 AM
Jefferson County, AR	64,799	18.1 min	5.0%	7:30 AM
Lincoln County, AR	12,948	18.4 min	7.3%	7:08 AM
Grant County, AR	18,243	28.4 min	10.3%	7:00 AM
Calhoun County, AR	4,704	22.3 min	1.5%	6:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cleveland County, Arkansas.

Is living in Cleveland County, Arkansas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 197 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,116 at a typical national wage. That's 27% more than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Cleveland County, Arkansas?

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

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).