Marion County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Marion County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Marion County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 183 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.3 minutes.

Marion County holds about 0.6% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Marion County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,267 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)
Marion County	21.9 min	43.9 min	183 hrs/yr	$5,668	288
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 21.9 minutes to get to work in Marion County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% 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 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Marion County

• Car: 88.7%
• Worked at Home: 8.2%
• Walked: 2.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Other: 0.3%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Marion County: 4164.7 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Marion County: 3.2 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Marion County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.7%	5.1%	2.3%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.7%	4.6%	2.7%	0.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.6%	3.4%	3.1%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	93.0%	3.1%	2.8%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	92.5%	3.1%	3.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	93.4%	3.1%	2.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	93.9%	3.5%	2.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	94.0%	4.3%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.4%	4.5%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	92.7%	5.6%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.2%	5.7%	2.0%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.5%	6.5%	1.9%	0.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.8%	5.8%	1.9%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	90.2%	7.0%	1.3%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.8%	8.4%	1.1%	0.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.7%	8.2%	2.2%	0.5%	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 peaked in 2016 at 94.0%. Overall it fell from 90.7% in 2009 to 88.7% in 2024, down 2.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Marion County: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Marion County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Marion County?

The bars show when commuters in Marion 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 Marion County8.5% Arkansas5.6%	8.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Marion County7.0% Arkansas4.1%	7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Marion County7.6% Arkansas5.2%	7.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Marion County10.7% Arkansas9.3%	10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Marion County8.5% Arkansas11.2%	8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Marion County16.8% Arkansas17.5%	16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Marion County15.6% Arkansas13.9%	15.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Marion County7.3% Arkansas9.2%	7.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Marion County1.9% Arkansas3.6%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Marion County3.0% Arkansas4.5%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Marion County2.2% Arkansas2.2%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Marion County1.1% Arkansas1.1%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Marion County5.7% Arkansas6.2%	5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Marion County4.1% Arkansas6.4%	4.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Marion County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 23.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 48.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.2%) 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 Marion 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 Marion 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 Marion 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.

• Marion County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Marion County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:12 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:09 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Marion County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:12 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Marion County now leave 24 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Marion County's commute time compare?

Metric	Marion County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.9 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	8.2%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Marion County is 21.9 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 2.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau