Cross County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cross County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cross County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Cross County holds about 0.5% of Arkansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cross County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,948 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)
Cross County	18.9 min	37.7 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,871	424
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 18.9 minutes to get to work in Cross County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 4.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cross County

• Car: 94.4%
• Worked at Home: 4.5%
• Other: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Cross County: 3.8 times less than the Arkansas average (0.4% vs 1.4%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Cross County: just 0.4%, 4.2 times below the Arkansas average of 1.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Cross County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cross 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
• 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	95.5%	1.6%	1.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	94.6%	2.3%	1.3%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	94.9%	2.2%	1.3%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.7%	2.8%	0.7%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.4%	3.4%	1.2%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.4%	3.4%	1.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.8%	3.9%	1.0%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	92.4%	3.9%	1.6%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	92.8%	3.5%	1.6%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	94.4%	2.8%	1.1%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.3%	3.3%	0.7%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	94.8%	3.2%	0.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.7%	3.6%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	96.1%	2.2%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.7%	3.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.4%	4.5%	0.6%	0.4%	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. Its share was highest in 2022 at 96.1% and lowest in 2016 at 92.4%. Overall it fell from 95.5% in 2009 to 94.4% in 2024, down 1.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cross County: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 4.5% in 2024, up 2.9 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Cross County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cross County?

The bars show when commuters in Cross 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 Cross County6.5% Arkansas5.6%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cross County6.4% Arkansas4.1%	6.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cross County6.0% Arkansas5.2%	6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cross County11.2% Arkansas9.3%	11.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cross County14.8% Arkansas11.2%	14.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cross County16.5% Arkansas17.5%	16.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cross County15.9% Arkansas13.9%	15.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cross County5.9% Arkansas9.2%	5.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cross County2.0% Arkansas3.6%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cross County2.0% Arkansas4.5%	2.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cross County4.2% Arkansas2.2%	4.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cross County1.4% Arkansas1.1%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cross County3.0% Arkansas6.2%	3.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cross County4.1% Arkansas6.4%	4.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cross County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Arkansas's: 53.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.7%) 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 Cross 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 Cross 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 Cross 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.

• Cross County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Cross County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:12 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:10 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:11 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:10 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:05 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cross County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:18 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arkansas, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Cross County now leave 29 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Cross County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cross County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.9 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.5%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cross County is about the same as in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau