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Commuting in Jacksonville, 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 Jacksonville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jacksonville spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Jacksonville holds about 0.8% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jacksonville would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,150 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)
Jacksonville 20.8 min 41.6 min 173 hrs/yr $5,376 1,871
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.

Jacksonville Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in Jacksonville. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 8.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jacksonville

  • Car: 87.1%
  • Worked at Home: 8.5%
  • Walked: 1.9%
  • Other: 1.1%
  • Taxi: 0.9% unusually high
  • Bicycle: 0.4%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Jacksonville, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.

Public transit is unusually rare in Jacksonville: 3.5 times less than the Arkansas average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Jacksonville: 8.8 times more than the Arkansas average (0.9% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Jacksonville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jacksonville 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 Taxi Bicycle Public Transportation Motorcycle
2009 92.8% 1.8% 2.3% 0.6% 0.2% 0.3% 1.4% 0.6%
2010 92.6% 1.9% 2.1% 0.8% 0.3% 0.2% 1.4% 0.8%
2011 92.2% 1.8% 2.3% 0.9% 0.7% 0.2% 1.5% 0.4%
2012 93.1% 2.2% 2.1% 0.9% 0.6% 0.1% 0.9% 0.2%
2013 93.0% 2.1% 2.5% 1.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.5% 0.3%
2014 92.9% 1.9% 3.0% 1.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2015 92.4% 2.9% 1.9% 2.1% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
2016 94.1% 2.4% 1.2% 1.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.3%
2017 94.9% 2.2% 0.6% 1.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.3%
2018 94.4% 2.5% 0.9% 1.5% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
2019 92.9% 2.6% 1.4% 2.3% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.3%
2020 92.3% 4.9% 1.5% 0.8% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1%
2021 91.2% 6.1% 1.3% 0.8% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 89.0% 7.7% 2.0% 1.0% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 88.2% 8.1% 2.1% 1.0% 0.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 87.1% 8.5% 1.9% 1.1% 0.9% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2017 at 94.9%. Overall it fell from 92.8% in 2009 to 87.1% in 2024, down 5.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Jacksonville: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 8.5% in 2024, up 6.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.1% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Jacksonville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jacksonville?

The bars show when commuters in Jacksonville 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
4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
19.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
14.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
7.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
9.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jacksonville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are about as common as in Arkansas: 14.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 48.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.9%) 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 Jacksonville, 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 Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville Arkansas United States
2009 7:20 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:20 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:17 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:19 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:22 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:25 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:24 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:29 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:25 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:23 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:23 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:23 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:25 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:29 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:27 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:27 AM 7:25 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jacksonville were on the road by 7:27 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:20 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Jacksonville now leave 11 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 Jacksonville has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Jacksonville's commute time compare?

Metric Jacksonville Arkansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 20.8 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 8.5% 8.8% 15.0%
Walked 1.9% 1.4% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Jacksonville is 20.8 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Jacksonville, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Jacksonville, AR compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Jacksonville, AR 24,180 20.8 min #2/3 8.5% #3/3 7:27 AM #1/3
Sherwood, AR 30,507 21.7 min 12.4% 7:29 AM
North Little Rock, AR 58,195 18.1 min 9.9% 7:40 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Jacksonville, Arkansas.

Is commuting expensive in Jacksonville, Arkansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,376 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

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

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

Do people use public transit in Jacksonville, Arkansas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Arkansas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.