Mississippi County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Mississippi County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mississippi County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 133 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Mississippi County holds about 1.3% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Mississippi County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,655 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)
Mississippi County	16.0 min	32.0 min	133 hrs/yr	$4,138	605
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 16.0 minutes to get to work in Mississippi County. That's 29% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 86% of counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 2.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mississippi County

• Car: 92.8%
• Worked at Home: 2.9% unusually low
• Walked: 1.8%
• Other: 1.4%
• Taxi: 0.6% unusually high
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Mississippi County: 6.2 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Mississippi County: 6.4 times more than the Arkansas average (0.6% vs 0.1%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Mississippi County: 3.1 times less than the Arkansas average (2.9% vs 8.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Mississippi County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Public Transportation
2009	96.2%	1.3%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	95.6%	1.7%	1.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	94.5%	1.8%	2.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2012	93.7%	1.8%	1.9%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	93.3%	2.0%	1.9%	2.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	93.3%	2.1%	2.1%	2.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	94.2%	1.9%	1.5%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	95.0%	1.7%	0.9%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	96.8%	1.3%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2018	97.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
2019	97.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
2020	97.4%	0.9%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	96.8%	1.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2022	96.1%	2.3%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	94.8%	3.2%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	92.8%	2.9%	1.8%	1.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2020 at 97.4%. Overall it fell from 96.2% in 2009 to 92.8% in 2024, down 3.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mississippi County: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 2.9% in 2024, up 1.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Mississippi County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mississippi County?

The bars show when commuters in Mississippi 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 Mississippi County12.6% Arkansas5.6%	12.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Mississippi County6.2% Arkansas4.1%	6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Mississippi County8.1% Arkansas5.2%	8.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Mississippi County7.4% Arkansas9.3%	7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Mississippi County9.3% Arkansas11.2%	9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Mississippi County15.8% Arkansas17.5%	15.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Mississippi County9.0% Arkansas13.9%	9.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Mississippi County7.7% Arkansas9.2%	7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Mississippi County4.2% Arkansas3.6%	4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Mississippi County2.0% Arkansas4.5%	2.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Mississippi County1.9% Arkansas2.2%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Mississippi County0.4% Arkansas1.1%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Mississippi County6.7% Arkansas6.2%	6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Mississippi County8.7% Arkansas6.4%	8.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mississippi County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 26.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 41.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi 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.

• Mississippi County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Mississippi County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:16 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:12 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mississippi County were on the road by 7:12 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:18 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arkansas, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Mississippi County now leave 25 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Mississippi County's commute time compare?

Metric	Mississippi County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.0 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.9%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mississippi County is 16.0 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau