Hot Springs Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Hot Springs, 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 Springs: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hot Springs spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 112 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

Hot Springs holds about 1.0% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hot Springs would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,394 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 Springs	13.5 min	27.0 min	112 hrs/yr	$3,485	1,718
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.

Hot Springs Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.5 minutes to get to work in Hot Springs. That's 40% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hot Springs

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Hot Springs: 4.0 times more than the Arkansas average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Biking is essentially absent in Hot Springs, versus 0.2% in Arkansas.

Commute Mode Trends in Hot Springs, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hot Springs 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.5%	2.2%	2.5%	1.1%	1.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.2%
2010	92.0%	2.5%	2.3%	1.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%
2011	91.1%	3.1%	2.2%	1.4%	0.8%	0.5%	0.6%	0.4%
2012	91.4%	3.3%	2.3%	1.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.4%
2013	90.9%	3.5%	2.2%	1.3%	0.8%	0.2%	0.7%	0.4%
2014	90.4%	4.3%	2.6%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.7%
2015	89.8%	4.2%	2.6%	0.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.9%	0.5%
2016	89.8%	4.6%	3.1%	0.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.9%	0.4%
2017	90.1%	4.3%	2.9%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.8%	0.4%
2018	89.7%	4.2%	3.2%	0.8%	0.9%	0.3%	0.7%	0.3%
2019	90.3%	2.9%	2.8%	1.8%	1.1%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%
2020	90.1%	3.4%	3.3%	2.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	91.0%	3.1%	2.1%	2.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	89.6%	4.2%	2.5%	2.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	89.8%	5.8%	2.2%	1.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	88.6%	6.9%	2.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 88.6% in 2024, down 3.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hot Springs: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Hot Springs

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hot Springs?

The bars show when commuters in Hot Springs 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		4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		17.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hot Springs is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across Arkansas. Early starts are less common than in Arkansas: 10.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Arkansas's: 52.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.4%) 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 Springs, 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 Springs 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 Springs 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 Springs	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:51 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	7:56 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:51 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:46 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:48 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:49 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hot Springs were on the road by 7:49 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:46 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Hot Springs now leave 11 minutes later 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 Springs has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Hot Springs's commute time compare?

Metric	Hot Springs	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.5 min	18.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.9%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hot Springs is 13.5 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 2.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Is commuting expensive in Hot Springs, Arkansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 112 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,485 at a typical national wage. That's 27% less than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Hot Springs, Arkansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.