Greene County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Greene County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Greene 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.

Greene County holds about 1.5% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Greene 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)
Greene County	17.3 min	34.5 min	144 hrs/yr	$4,460	1,032
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 17.3 minutes to get to work in Greene County. That's 23% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Greene County

• Car: 92.2%
• Worked at Home: 4.3%
• Walked: 1.7%
• Other: 1.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Greene County: 3.5 times more than the Arkansas average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Greene County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Greene 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
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.5%	3.4%	0.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	94.7%	3.2%	0.2%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	95.0%	2.8%	0.2%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	95.2%	2.3%	0.2%	1.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	94.9%	2.8%	0.2%	1.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.7%	2.1%	0.6%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.1%	2.4%	0.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.8%	2.0%	0.8%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.7%	2.2%	1.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	95.5%	1.7%	1.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.9%	2.0%	1.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.8%	2.6%	1.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	94.4%	2.8%	1.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	93.0%	3.0%	2.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.2%	3.5%	2.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.2%	4.3%	1.7%	1.3%	0.4%	0.1%	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 2016 at 95.8%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 92.2% in 2024, down 2.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Greene County: its share of workers rose from 0.5% in 2009 to 1.7% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 2.7% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 1.7%.

Commute Start Times in Greene County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Greene County?

The bars show when commuters in Greene 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 Greene County7.3% Arkansas5.6%	7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Greene County6.6% Arkansas4.1%	6.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Greene County6.6% Arkansas5.2%	6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Greene County8.3% Arkansas9.3%	8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Greene County13.1% Arkansas11.2%	13.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Greene County14.5% Arkansas17.5%	14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Greene County13.0% Arkansas13.9%	13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Greene County6.7% Arkansas9.2%	6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Greene County3.6% Arkansas3.6%	3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Greene County2.1% Arkansas4.5%	2.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Greene County2.3% Arkansas2.2%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Greene County0.7% Arkansas1.1%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Greene County8.0% Arkansas6.2%	8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Greene County7.4% Arkansas6.4%	7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Greene County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 20.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 47.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.4%) 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 Greene 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 Greene 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 Greene 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	Greene County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:13 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Greene County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arkansas, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Greene County now leave 21 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Greene County's commute time compare?

Metric	Greene County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.3 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.3%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

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

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau