Lafayette County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lafayette County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lafayette County spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 238 hours, about 9.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 53% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 9.9 minutes.

Lafayette County holds about 0.2% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lafayette County would save about 95 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,948 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)
Lafayette County	28.5 min	57.1 min	238 hrs/yr	$7,370	314
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.

Commute Time Map: Arkansas Counties

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On average, it takes 28.5 minutes to get to work in Lafayette County. That's 27% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower 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. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lafayette County

• Car: 92.1%
• Worked at Home: 3.4%
• Other: 2.8%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Lafayette County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lafayette 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
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	85.7%	5.1%	5.1%	3.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	84.8%	3.6%	5.8%	3.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.2%	3.1%	5.7%	2.7%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	85.1%	3.2%	5.4%	3.1%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	88.1%	4.1%	2.3%	2.4%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	89.9%	3.4%	2.2%	2.2%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.5%	4.7%	1.5%	2.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.3%	4.0%	1.3%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.9%	3.6%	1.2%	2.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.4%	4.5%	0.9%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.7%	5.1%	1.6%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.7%	4.5%	2.1%	2.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.5%	6.6%	0.5%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.5%	4.5%	1.9%	2.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.2%	1.5%	2.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.1%	3.4%	2.8%	1.5%	0.3%	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 2023 at 94.2% and lowest in 2010 at 84.8%. Overall it rose from 85.7% in 2009 to 92.1% in 2024, up 6.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.6% to 1.5% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 6.6% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 3.4%.

Commute Start Times in Lafayette County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lafayette County?

The bars show when commuters in Lafayette 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 Lafayette County7.3% Arkansas5.6%	7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lafayette County3.0% Arkansas4.1%	3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lafayette County6.1% Arkansas5.2%	6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lafayette County10.5% Arkansas9.3%	10.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lafayette County8.2% Arkansas11.2%	8.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lafayette County23.6% Arkansas17.5%	23.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lafayette County13.5% Arkansas13.9%	13.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lafayette County7.5% Arkansas9.2%	7.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lafayette County1.3% Arkansas3.6%	1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lafayette County3.8% Arkansas4.5%	3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lafayette County2.7% Arkansas2.2%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lafayette County0.4% Arkansas1.1%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lafayette County5.1% Arkansas6.2%	5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lafayette County7.1% Arkansas6.4%	7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lafayette County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 16.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Arkansas's: 52.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.0%) 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 Lafayette 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 Lafayette 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 Lafayette 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.

• Lafayette County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lafayette County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:10 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:06 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:05 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:10 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lafayette County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:20 AM). Arkansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Lafayette County now leave 19 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 Lafayette County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Lafayette County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lafayette County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.5 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	3.4%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lafayette County is 28.5 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Arkansas. 1.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau