Craighead County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Craighead County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Craighead County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 144 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Craighead County holds about 3.7% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 3.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Craighead County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,784 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)
Craighead County	17.3 min	34.5 min	144 hrs/yr	$4,460	1,708
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.

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On average, it takes 17.3 minutes to get to work in Craighead County. That's 23% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Craighead County

• Car: 91.1%
• Worked at Home: 6.8%
• Walked: 1.3%
• Taxi: 0.4% unusually high
• Other: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Craighead County: 8.1 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Craighead County: 4.5 times more than the Arkansas average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Craighead County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Craighead 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Taxi
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• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Taxi	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.6%	5.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2010	92.5%	5.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2011	92.3%	5.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%
2012	91.9%	5.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	92.9%	4.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	93.1%	4.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2015	93.2%	3.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2016	93.0%	3.5%	2.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2017	93.5%	3.3%	2.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	94.1%	2.8%	2.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	94.5%	2.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	94.5%	3.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	93.6%	3.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	93.8%	4.2%	1.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.1%	5.8%	1.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.1%	6.8%	1.3%	0.4%	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 peaked in 2019 at 94.5%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 91.1% in 2024, down 1.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Craighead County: its share of workers rose from 5.0% in 2009 to 6.8% in 2024, up 1.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Craighead County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Craighead County?

The bars show when commuters in Craighead 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 Craighead County5.8% Arkansas5.6%	5.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Craighead County3.8% Arkansas4.1%	3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Craighead County4.4% Arkansas5.2%	4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Craighead County6.4% Arkansas9.3%	6.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Craighead County12.3% Arkansas11.2%	12.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Craighead County14.7% Arkansas17.5%	14.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Craighead County15.0% Arkansas13.9%	15.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Craighead County10.6% Arkansas9.2%	10.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Craighead County3.4% Arkansas3.6%	3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Craighead County6.2% Arkansas4.5%	6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Craighead County2.3% Arkansas2.2%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Craighead County1.0% Arkansas1.1%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Craighead County7.1% Arkansas6.2%	7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Craighead County6.9% Arkansas6.4%	6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Craighead County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across Arkansas. Early starts are about as common as in Arkansas: 13.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Arkansas's: 52.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.6%) 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 Craighead 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 Craighead 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 Craighead 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.

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• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Craighead County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Craighead County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). Arkansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Craighead County now leave 3 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 Craighead County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Craighead County's commute time compare?

Metric	Craighead County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.3 min	18.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	6.8%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Craighead County is 17.3 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau