Howard County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Howard County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Howard County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 114 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting.

That is 26% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.5 minutes each way, a difference of 4.8 minutes.

Howard County holds about 0.4% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Howard County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,411 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)
Howard County	13.7 min	27.3 min	114 hrs/yr	$3,527	308
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 13.7 minutes to get to work in Howard County. That's 39% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 93% of counties in Arkansas

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 Walked . About 2.3% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 93.9%
• Walked: 3.2%
• Worked at Home: 2.3% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Bicycle: < 0.1%
• Other: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Worked at Home commuting is unusually low in Howard County: 3.3 times less than the Arkansas average (2.3% vs 7.8%).

How does Howard County's commute time compare?

Metric	Howard County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.7 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	2.3%	7.8%	13.4%
Walked	3.2%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.3%	3.5%

The average commute time in Howard County is 13.7 minutes, shorter than the 18.5 minutes in Arkansas.

0.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 3.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau