Izard County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Izard County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Izard County spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 224 hours, about 9.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 44% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 8.2 minutes.

Izard County holds about 0.5% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Izard County would save about 89 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,774 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)
Izard County	26.8 min	53.7 min	224 hrs/yr	$6,935	308
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.

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On average, it takes 26.8 minutes to get to work in Izard County. That's 20% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 91% of counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Izard County

• Car: 91.4%
• Worked at Home: 7.5%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Other: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Izard County: 2505678392.3 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Izard County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Izard 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.5%	4.8%	2.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.6%	4.8%	1.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	94.3%	3.2%	1.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	93.2%	3.6%	2.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	92.6%	4.6%	2.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	92.2%	5.1%	1.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	93.5%	3.8%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	93.4%	4.2%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	92.4%	4.3%	1.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	93.5%	2.5%	1.2%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	92.7%	1.8%	2.8%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	91.7%	2.0%	2.7%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	90.7%	2.2%	2.6%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2022	90.6%	3.3%	1.8%	3.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2023	90.9%	5.9%	1.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2024	91.4%	7.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2011 at 94.3% and lowest in 2022 at 90.6%. Overall it fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 91.4% in 2024, down 1.1 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Izard County: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 7.5% in 2024, up 2.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 0.7% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Izard County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Izard County?

The bars show when commuters in Izard 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 Izard County4.3% Arkansas5.6%	4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Izard County4.8% Arkansas4.1%	4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Izard County4.8% Arkansas5.2%	4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Izard County11.1% Arkansas9.3%	11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Izard County10.0% Arkansas11.2%	10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Izard County20.5% Arkansas17.5%	20.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Izard County14.7% Arkansas13.9%	14.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Izard County9.6% Arkansas9.2%	9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Izard County2.6% Arkansas3.6%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Izard County4.2% Arkansas4.5%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Izard County1.6% Arkansas2.2%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Izard County0.3% Arkansas1.1%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Izard County6.1% Arkansas6.2%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Izard County5.4% Arkansas6.4%	5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Izard County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are about as common as in Arkansas: 13.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arkansas: 54.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.6%) 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 Izard 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 Izard 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 Izard 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.

• Izard County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Izard County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Izard County were on the road by 7:22 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Arkansas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Izard County now leave 16 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Izard County's commute time compare?

Metric	Izard County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.8 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.5%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Izard County is 26.8 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau