Little River County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Little River County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Little River County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 251 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 62% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 11.5 minutes.

Little River County holds about 0.4% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Little River County would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,115 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)
Little River County	30.1 min	60.3 min	251 hrs/yr	$7,786	491
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 30.1 minutes to get to work in Little River County. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Little River County

• Car: 95.7%
• Worked at Home: 3.3%
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Little River County: 7.4 times less than the Arkansas average (0.2% vs 1.4%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Little River County, versus 0.3% in Arkansas.

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Little River County: just 0.2%, 8.3 times below the Arkansas average of 1.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Little River County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Little River 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
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Motorcycle	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	97.5%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	96.7%	1.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	97.0%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.7%	0.7%	1.5%	0.0%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.9%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	97.2%	0.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.2%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.4%	1.3%	0.9%	0.0%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	97.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	98.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	97.0%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2020	96.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%
2021	97.0%	0.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2022	94.2%	2.5%	0.8%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2023	93.9%	3.0%	1.3%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2024	95.7%	3.3%	0.6%	0.2%	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 was highest in 2018 at 98.0% and lowest in 2023 at 93.9%. Overall it fell from 97.5% in 2009 to 95.7% in 2024, down 1.8 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Little River County: its share of workers rose from 1.2% in 2009 to 3.3% in 2024, up 2.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.8% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.2%.

Commute Start Times in Little River County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Little River County?

The bars show when commuters in Little River 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 Little River County7.3% Arkansas5.6%	7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Little River County8.2% Arkansas4.1%	8.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Little River County4.1% Arkansas5.2%	4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Little River County12.1% Arkansas9.3%	12.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Little River County12.2% Arkansas11.2%	12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Little River County17.6% Arkansas17.5%	17.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Little River County11.6% Arkansas13.9%	11.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Little River County5.6% Arkansas9.2%	5.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Little River County2.0% Arkansas3.6%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Little River County1.3% Arkansas4.5%	1.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Little River County1.2% Arkansas2.2%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Little River County1.4% Arkansas1.1%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Little River County7.2% Arkansas6.2%	7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Little River County8.2% Arkansas6.4%	8.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Little River County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 19.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 47.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.3%) 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 Little River 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 Little River 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 Little River 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.

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• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Little River County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:02 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:06 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:04 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:06 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:05 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Little River County were on the road by 7:10 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Arkansas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Little River County now leave 27 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 Little River County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Little River County's commute time compare?

Metric	Little River County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.1 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.3%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Little River County is 30.1 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau