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Dallas County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Dallas 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 Dallas County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dallas County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 188 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 4.0 minutes.

Dallas County holds about 0.2% of Arkansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Dallas County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,336 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)
Dallas County 22.6 min 45.2 min 188 hrs/yr $5,841 184
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

Dallas County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.6 minutes to get to work in Dallas County. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 76% of counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 1.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dallas County

  • Car: 91.8%
  • Walked: 2.9%
  • Worked at Home: 1.8% unusually low
  • Other: 1.6%
  • Motorcycle: 1.1% unusually high
  • Public Transportation: 0.4%
  • Bicycle: 0.4%
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Dallas County: 10.0 times more than the Arkansas average (1.1% vs 0.1%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Dallas County: 4.9 times less than the Arkansas average (1.8% vs 8.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Dallas County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dallas 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 Walked Worked at Home Other Motorcycle Public Transportation Bicycle Taxi
2009 95.9% 1.4% 0.5% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 1.1% 0.0%
2010 96.0% 1.7% 0.8% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0%
2011 96.1% 1.6% 1.1% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 95.5% 2.3% 0.9% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0%
2013 92.6% 4.8% 1.3% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0%
2014 92.2% 4.3% 1.9% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0%
2015 91.7% 4.3% 2.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0%
2016 92.1% 4.5% 1.6% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0%
2017 90.3% 5.6% 1.9% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 1.2% 0.0%
2018 91.6% 4.5% 1.4% 0.9% 0.3% 0.0% 1.3% 0.0%
2019 95.8% 2.4% 0.4% 1.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 96.6% 2.0% 0.5% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 90.8% 7.5% 1.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 93.8% 3.7% 0.5% 0.6% 1.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 92.2% 3.7% 1.2% 1.9% 0.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 91.8% 2.9% 1.8% 1.6% 1.1% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2020 at 96.6% and lowest in 2017 at 90.3%. Overall it fell from 95.9% in 2009 to 91.8% in 2024, down 4.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Dallas County: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 2.9% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook biking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 7.5% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 2.9%.

Commute Start Times in Dallas County

  • Rush-Hour DodgersThe 2nd-lowest share of rush-hour departures among Arkansas's 75 counties: only 33.3% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dallas County?

The bars show when commuters in Dallas 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
11.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
12.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
10.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
4.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
11.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dallas County is 5:00-5:29 AM, when 12.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 4.1% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 29.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 33.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.4%) 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 Dallas 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 Dallas 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 Dallas 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 Dallas County Arkansas United States
2009 7:18 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:07 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:10 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:10 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:07 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:06 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2015 6:58 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2016 6:49 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2017 6:47 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2018 6:46 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:01 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:01 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:00 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2022 6:59 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:07 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:03 AM 7:25 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dallas County were on the road by 7:03 AM, 15 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 Dallas County now leave 35 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 Dallas County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Dallas County's commute time compare?

Metric Dallas County Arkansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 22.6 min 18.6 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 1.8% 8.8% 15.0%
Walked 2.9% 1.4% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.4% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Dallas County is 22.6 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Dallas County, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Dallas County, AR is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 6,237 residents against a local median of 18,243. Where Dallas County, AR breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 61% below the local median of 4.6% at 1.8%.

The counties themselves spread 8.9% on work from home, so Dallas County, AR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Dallas County, AR has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Dallas County, AR 6,237 22.6 min #3/6 1.8% #5/6 7:03 AM #4/6
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
Ouachita County, AR 22,085 18.4 min 4.6% 6:56 AM
Hot Spring County, AR 33,176 26.5 min 4.3% 7:17 AM
Cleveland County, AR 7,452 23.7 min 4.7% 7:20 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Dallas County, Arkansas.

Is commuting expensive in Dallas County, Arkansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 188 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,841 at a typical national wage. That's 22% more than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Dallas County, Arkansas?

Traffic peaks between 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM in Dallas County, Arkansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.

How do commute times compare across counties in Arkansas?

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).