Fayetteville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Fayetteville, 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 Fayetteville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fayetteville spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 140 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Fayetteville holds about 2.8% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 2.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Fayetteville would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,739 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)
Fayetteville	16.8 min	33.7 min	140 hrs/yr	$4,347	3,366
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.

Fayetteville Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.8 minutes to get to work in Fayetteville. That's 25% 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 13.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fayetteville

Public transit is unusually common in Fayetteville: 4.7 times more than the Arkansas average (1.3% vs 0.3%).

Biking is unusually common in Fayetteville: 6.1 times more than the Arkansas average (1.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Fayetteville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fayetteville 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.9%	2.8%	4.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	90.3%	2.6%	4.8%	1.3%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	87.4%	3.9%	5.9%	1.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	86.0%	5.0%	5.9%	1.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	85.1%	4.8%	6.2%	2.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	84.8%	4.6%	6.5%	2.2%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	85.1%	4.7%	5.8%	2.4%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	86.2%	4.3%	5.4%	2.2%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%
2017	87.3%	3.8%	5.0%	1.7%	1.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%
2018	86.6%	5.1%	4.6%	1.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%
2019	88.0%	5.1%	3.6%	1.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	85.7%	7.7%	3.1%	1.6%	1.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	84.3%	9.5%	3.1%	1.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	82.6%	11.0%	3.3%	1.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	83.1%	11.5%	2.6%	1.2%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	80.6%	13.3%	3.1%	1.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.9% in 2009 to 80.6% in 2024, down 10.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fayetteville: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 13.3% in 2024, up 10.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.3% to 3.1% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 2.4% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 1.3%.

Commute Start Times in Fayetteville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fayetteville?

The bars show when commuters in Fayetteville 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		1.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Fayetteville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are less common than in Arkansas: 8.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Arkansas's: 50.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.4%) 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 Fayetteville, 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 Fayetteville 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 Fayetteville 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	Fayetteville	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:54 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:55 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:54 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:56 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:56 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:55 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:56 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:54 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:52 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:51 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:53 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:50 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:51 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:52 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:54 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:52 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fayetteville were on the road by 7:52 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:54 AM). Arkansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Fayetteville now leave 14 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Fayetteville's commute time compare?

Metric	Fayetteville	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.8 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	13.3%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	3.1%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fayetteville is 16.8 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

1.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 3.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Fayetteville, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Fayetteville, AR compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Fayetteville, AR	86,772	16.8 min #1/2	13.3% #1/2	7:52 AM #2/2
Springdale, AR	82,221	18.0 min	7.3%	7:26 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 140 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,347 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Fayetteville, 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.

Do people use public transit in Fayetteville, Arkansas?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 1.3% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Arkansas, making it a realistic option for many workers.

How much money can remote workers save in Fayetteville, Arkansas?

About 13.3% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Fayetteville would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,739 at the same national wage assumption used above.