Commuting in Jackson 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 Jackson County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Jackson County spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 127 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.4 minutes.
Jackson County holds about 0.5% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Jackson County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,570 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)
Jackson County
15.2 min
30.4 min
127 hrs/yr
$3,925
443
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.
On average, it takes
15.2
minutes to get to work in
Jackson County.
That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 93% of counties in Arkansas
The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 2.5% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Jackson County
Car:
92.6%
Walked:
3.6%
Worked at Home:
2.5%unusually low
Other:
1.2%
Bicycle:
0.2%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Jackson County, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.
Public transit is essentially absent in Jackson County, versus 0.3% in Arkansas.
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Jackson County, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.
Working from home is unusually rare in Jackson County: 3.5 times less than the Arkansas average (2.5% vs 8.8%).
Commute Mode Trends in Jackson County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Jackson 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
Walked
Worked at Home
Other
Bicycle
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
2009
95.7%
0.4%
3.2%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2010
95.1%
0.5%
3.6%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2011
94.8%
2.0%
2.5%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.2%
2012
93.8%
2.5%
2.8%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.2%
2013
94.5%
2.6%
2.0%
0.6%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.2%
2014
95.4%
2.0%
2.1%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2015
94.9%
1.8%
2.7%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2016
94.1%
1.7%
3.1%
0.8%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
92.8%
1.6%
4.1%
1.0%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
91.3%
1.5%
4.4%
1.2%
1.5%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2019
90.4%
2.0%
4.4%
1.0%
2.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2020
91.8%
1.3%
4.1%
0.7%
2.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2021
91.8%
1.5%
4.0%
1.1%
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2022
93.6%
1.5%
3.2%
0.7%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2023
92.9%
3.1%
3.1%
0.7%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
92.6%
3.6%
2.5%
1.2%
0.2%
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 bottomed out in 2019 at 90.4%. Overall it fell from 95.7% in 2009 to 92.6% in 2024, down 3.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.
Walking gained the most ground in Jackson County: its share of workers rose from 0.4% in 2009 to 3.6% in 2024, up 3.2 percentage points.
Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 2.5% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).
Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.
Biking peaked at 2.2% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 0.2%.
Commute Start Times in Jackson County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jackson County?
The bars show when commuters in Jackson 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 AMJackson County7.1%Arkansas5.6%
7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMJackson County5.2%Arkansas4.1%
5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMJackson County7.5%Arkansas5.2%
7.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMJackson County11.9%Arkansas9.3%
11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMJackson County7.9%Arkansas11.2%
7.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMJackson County10.6%Arkansas17.5%
10.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMJackson County15.5%Arkansas13.9%
15.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMJackson County8.7%Arkansas9.2%
8.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMJackson County2.0%Arkansas3.6%
2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMJackson County4.4%Arkansas4.5%
4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMJackson County1.6%Arkansas2.2%
1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMJackson County0.6%Arkansas1.1%
0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMJackson County9.2%Arkansas6.2%
9.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMJackson County8.0%Arkansas6.4%
8.0%
Jackson CountyArkansasSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Jackson County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 19.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 42.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.8%) 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 Jackson 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 Jackson 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 Jackson 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
Jackson County
Arkansas
United States
2009
7:28 AM
7:28 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:26 AM
7:28 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:23 AM
7:28 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:25 AM
7:27 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:26 AM
7:27 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:26 AM
7:27 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:23 AM
7:27 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:21 AM
7:26 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:18 AM
7:26 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:13 AM
7:26 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:11 AM
7:26 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:10 AM
7:26 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:19 AM
7:26 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:18 AM
7:26 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:26 AM
7:26 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:30 AM
7:25 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Jackson County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:28 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Jackson County now leave 8 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 Jackson County has moved 19 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Jackson County in the whole series.
How does Jackson County's commute time compare?
Metric
Jackson County
Arkansas
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
15.2 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
06:00 AM – 06:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
2.5%
8.8%
15.0%
Walked
3.6%
1.4%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.3%
3.2%
The average commute time in Jackson County is 15.2 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 3.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.
Jackson County, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Jackson County, AR is typical in size for this group, 16,709 residents against a local median of 16,543, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Jackson County, AR apart most is work from home: 2.5%, 36% below the local median of 3.9%.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 15.2 min against a local median of 18.9 min, 19% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 19% below the local median it puts Jackson County, AR at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 3.0% on work from home, so Jackson County, AR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Jackson County, AR has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Jackson County, Arkansas.
Is commuting expensive in Jackson County, Arkansas?
Commuters here spend an estimated 127 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,925 at a typical national wage. That's 18% less than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Jackson County, Arkansas?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Jackson 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.
Do people use public transit in Jackson County, Arkansas?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Arkansas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
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).