Hempstead County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hempstead County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hempstead County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 153 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting.

That is 1% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Hempstead County holds about 0.7% of Arkansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hempstead County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,893 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)
Hempstead County	18.3 min	36.6 min	153 hrs/yr	$4,733	338
Arkansas	18.5 min	37.0 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,780	912
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 18.3 minutes to get to work in Hempstead County. That's 18% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 2.6% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 96.2%
• Worked at Home: 2.6% unusually low
• Other: 0.5%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Hempstead County, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.

Walked commuting is unusually low in Hempstead County: 3.9 times less than the Arkansas average (0.4% vs 1.5%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Hempstead County, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Hempstead County: 5.4 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Worked at Home commuting is unusually low in Hempstead County: 3.0 times less than the Arkansas average (2.6% vs 7.8%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Hempstead County: just 0.4%, 4.0 times below the Arkansas average of 1.6%.

How does Hempstead County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hempstead County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.3 min	18.5 min	22.5 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	2.6%	7.8%	13.4%
Walked	0.4%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.5%

The average commute time in Hempstead County is 18.3 minutes, shorter than the 18.5 minutes in Arkansas.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Arkansas. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau