Faulkner County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Faulkner 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 Faulkner County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Faulkner County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 176 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Faulkner County holds about 4.2% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 4.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Faulkner County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,186 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)
Faulkner County	21.2 min	42.3 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,464	1,773
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

Faulkner County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.2 minutes to get to work in Faulkner County. That's 6% 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 8.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Faulkner County

Commute Mode Trends in Faulkner County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Faulkner 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	Walked	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.4%	3.4%	2.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%
2010	93.3%	3.4%	2.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2011	94.0%	2.8%	1.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	94.2%	2.9%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	94.6%	2.8%	1.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	94.2%	2.8%	1.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2015	93.8%	3.0%	1.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2016	93.4%	3.3%	1.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	93.1%	3.4%	1.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	93.3%	3.4%	1.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	93.5%	3.2%	1.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2020	93.3%	3.9%	1.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2021	93.0%	4.7%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	91.4%	6.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	90.4%	6.9%	1.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	89.0%	8.5%	1.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 94.6%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 89.0% in 2024, down 4.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Faulkner County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 8.5% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 1.5% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Faulkner County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Faulkner County?

The bars show when commuters in Faulkner 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		3.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Faulkner County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are less common than in Arkansas: 12.5% 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 5 commuters (20.6%) 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 Faulkner 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 Faulkner 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 Faulkner 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	Faulkner County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Faulkner County were on the road by 7:29 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Arkansas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Faulkner County now leave 8 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 Faulkner County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Faulkner County's commute time compare?

Metric	Faulkner County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.2 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	8.5%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Faulkner County is 21.2 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Faulkner County, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Faulkner County, AR is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 127,709 residents against a local median of 25,225. Faulkner County, AR sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 8% above the local median at 8.5% against 7.9%. Faulkner County, AR has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Faulkner County, AR	127,709	21.2 min #3/6	8.5% #2/6	7:29 AM #5/6
Pulaski County, AR	399,629	18.4 min	11.9%	7:38 AM
Conway County, AR	21,055	22.9 min	7.4%	7:16 AM
Van Buren County, AR	15,983	21.2 min	8.3%	7:00 AM
Cleburne County, AR	25,225	17.8 min	6.9%	7:11 AM
Lonoke County, AR	75,267	28.5 min	7.9%	7:08 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Faulkner County, Arkansas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 176 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,464 at a typical national wage. That's 14% more than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Faulkner 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.

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).