Hot Spring County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Hot Spring 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 Hot Spring County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hot Spring County spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 221 hours, about 9.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 43% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.9 minutes.

Hot Spring County holds about 1.1% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hot Spring County would save about 88 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,742 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)
Hot Spring County	26.5 min	53.1 min	221 hrs/yr	$6,854	858
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

Hot Spring County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 26.5 minutes to get to work in Hot Spring County. That's 18% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 88% of counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 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 Hot Spring County

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Hot Spring County: 3516414.4 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Hot Spring County: 10.4 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hot Spring County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hot Spring 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.9%	2.3%	0.5%	1.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	94.0%	3.0%	0.7%	1.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	94.8%	2.5%	0.6%	1.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	94.7%	3.0%	0.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	94.2%	3.0%	0.8%	1.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	95.5%	2.3%	0.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.0%	1.7%	0.6%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.7%	2.0%	0.7%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.1%	1.4%	0.5%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	96.4%	1.2%	0.3%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.1%	1.7%	0.3%	2.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.0%	1.9%	0.2%	2.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.6%	2.4%	0.6%	3.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.8%	2.4%	1.3%	2.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.2%	2.7%	1.9%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.3%	4.3%	1.5%	1.4%	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 2018 at 96.4%. Overall it fell from 94.9% in 2009 to 92.3% in 2024, down 2.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hot Spring County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 4.3% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 3.1% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 1.4%.

Commute Start Times in Hot Spring County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hot Spring County?

The bars show when commuters in Hot Spring 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		6.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hot Spring County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 19.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 46.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.4%) 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 Hot Spring 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 Hot Spring 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 Hot Spring 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	Hot Spring County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:10 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hot Spring County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:20 AM). Arkansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Hot Spring County now leave 21 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 Hot Spring County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Hot Spring County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hot Spring County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.5 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.3%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hot Spring County is 26.5 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Arkansas. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Hot Spring County, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Hot Spring County, AR is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 33,176 residents against a local median of 21,125. Where Hot Spring County, AR breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 44% below the local median of 7.7% at 4.3%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 26.5 min against a local median of 22.6 min, 17% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 17% above the local median it puts Hot Spring County, AR at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 8.7% on work from home, so Hot Spring County, AR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Hot Spring 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
Hot Spring County, AR	33,176	26.5 min #5/6	4.3% #5/6	7:17 AM #4/6
Garland County, AR	100,035	17.2 min	7.7%	7:37 AM
Clark County, AR	21,125	15.1 min	6.0%	7:42 AM
Saline County, AR	127,467	26.1 min	10.4%	7:15 AM
Dallas County, AR	6,237	22.6 min	1.8%	7:03 AM
Grant County, AR	18,243	28.4 min	10.3%	7:00 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hot Spring County, Arkansas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Hot Spring County, Arkansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 221 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,854 at a typical national wage. That's 43% more than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Hot Spring County, Arkansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Hot Spring County, Arkansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).