Lawrence County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lawrence County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lawrence County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 179 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Lawrence County holds about 0.5% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lawrence County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,220 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)
Lawrence County	21.5 min	43.0 min	179 hrs/yr	$5,549	517
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 21.5 minutes to get to work in Lawrence County. That's 4% 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 3.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lawrence County

• Car: 94.6%
• Worked at Home: 3.0%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Other: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Commute Mode Trends in Lawrence County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lawrence 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	90.6%	5.8%	1.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	89.2%	7.4%	2.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	92.0%	4.3%	2.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	90.6%	5.1%	2.6%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	90.5%	6.0%	2.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	89.4%	5.9%	3.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.3%	4.0%	3.9%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	91.7%	3.2%	3.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.4%	1.2%	3.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.4%	1.4%	2.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.6%	2.8%	1.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	95.0%	2.9%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	94.5%	3.1%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	93.8%	3.8%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	93.9%	3.4%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	94.6%	3.0%	0.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2020 at 95.0% and lowest in 2010 at 89.2%. Overall it rose from 90.6% in 2009 to 94.6% in 2024, up 4.0 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 5.8% to 3.0% of workers (down 2.8 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 3.9% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Lawrence County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lawrence County?

The bars show when commuters in Lawrence 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 Lawrence County9.1% Arkansas5.6%	9.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lawrence County4.5% Arkansas4.1%	4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lawrence County7.9% Arkansas5.2%	7.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lawrence County12.8% Arkansas9.3%	12.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lawrence County9.1% Arkansas11.2%	9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lawrence County14.2% Arkansas17.5%	14.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lawrence County13.1% Arkansas13.9%	13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lawrence County6.9% Arkansas9.2%	6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lawrence County2.1% Arkansas3.6%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lawrence County2.8% Arkansas4.5%	2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lawrence County1.6% Arkansas2.2%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lawrence County1.0% Arkansas1.1%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lawrence County8.2% Arkansas6.2%	8.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lawrence County6.7% Arkansas6.4%	6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lawrence County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 21.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 43.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.3%) 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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.

• Lawrence County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lawrence County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:16 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:09 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lawrence County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arkansas, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Lawrence County now leave 24 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Lawrence County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lawrence County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.5 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	3.0%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lawrence County is 21.5 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Arkansas. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau