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Lonoke County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Lonoke County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lonoke 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.

Lonoke County holds about 2.5% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 3.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lonoke County would save about 95 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,949 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)
Lonoke County 28.5 min 57.1 min 238 hrs/yr $7,371 870
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Arkansas
  1. Arkansas County (11.9 min)
  2. Phillips County (13.2 min)
  3. Howard County (13.4 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Arkansas
  1. Perry County (32.2 min)
  2. Newton County (31.6 min)
  3. Madison County (31.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Lonoke County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 28.5 minutes to get to work in Lonoke County. That's 27% 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 7.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lonoke County

  • Car: 90.3%
  • Worked at Home: 7.9%
  • Walked: 0.9%
  • Other: 0.8%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Lonoke County: 5.3 times less than the Arkansas average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lonoke County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lonoke 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 Worked at Home Walked Other Public Transportation Bicycle Taxi Motorcycle
2009 95.1% 2.1% 1.7% 0.5% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2%
2010 94.7% 2.3% 1.8% 0.7% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2011 94.7% 2.3% 1.9% 0.8% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2012 94.5% 2.3% 1.7% 0.8% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3%
2013 94.1% 2.6% 1.6% 1.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.4%
2014 94.4% 2.6% 1.8% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2015 94.9% 2.5% 1.5% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2016 94.5% 2.8% 1.7% 0.6% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2017 94.6% 2.6% 2.0% 0.5% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2018 95.0% 2.5% 1.6% 0.4% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2019 94.4% 3.4% 1.2% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2020 93.7% 3.9% 1.1% 0.9% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2021 93.8% 4.3% 0.9% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2022 92.5% 5.4% 1.1% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 91.0% 7.2% 0.9% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2024 90.3% 7.9% 0.9% 0.8% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 95.1% in 2009 to 90.3% in 2024, down 4.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lonoke County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 7.9% in 2024, up 5.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.9% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lonoke County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lonoke County?

The bars show when commuters in Lonoke 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
5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
13.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
14.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lonoke County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 17.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 47.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.0%) 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 Lonoke 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 Lonoke 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 Lonoke 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 Lonoke County Arkansas United States
2009 7:14 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:12 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:14 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:14 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:14 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:14 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:15 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:14 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:14 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 7:09 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:07 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:08 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:08 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:08 AM 7:25 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lonoke County were on the road by 7:08 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:14 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arkansas, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Lonoke County now leave 30 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 Lonoke County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Lonoke County's commute time compare?

Metric Lonoke 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 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 7.9% 8.8% 15.0%
Walked 0.9% 1.4% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

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

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lonoke County, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Lonoke County, AR is typical in size for this group, 75,267 residents against a local median of 77,839, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Lonoke County, AR breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 57% above the local median of 5.0% at 7.9%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 28.5 min against a local median of 18.4 min, 55% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 55% above the local median it puts Lonoke County, AR at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 8.6% on work from home, so Lonoke County, AR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Lonoke County, AR has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Lonoke County, AR 75,267 28.5 min #6/6 7.9% #3/6 7:08 AM #1/6
Prairie County, AR 8,064 23.7 min 3.3% 7:14 AM
Pulaski County, AR 399,629 18.4 min 11.9% 7:38 AM
Jefferson County, AR 64,799 18.1 min 5.0% 7:30 AM
White County, AR 77,839 17.2 min 4.8% 7:22 AM
Faulkner County, AR 127,709 21.2 min 8.5% 7:29 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lonoke County, Arkansas.

Is living in Lonoke County, Arkansas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 238 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,371 at a typical national wage. That's 53% more than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Lonoke County, Arkansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Lonoke County, Arkansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Lonoke County, 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.

How do commute times compare across 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).