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 131 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting.

That is 15% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.7 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 $1,630 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	15.8 min	31.5 min	131 hrs/yr	$4,075	605
Arkansas	18.5 min	37.0 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,780	912
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 15.8 minutes to get to work in Mississippi County. That's 30% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 85% of counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 3.2% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 94.8%
• Worked at Home: 3.2%
• Other: 1.0%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Mississippi County, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Mississippi County: 37890427.3 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

How does Mississippi County's commute time compare?

Metric	Mississippi County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.8 min	18.5 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.2%	7.8%	13.4%
Walked	0.9%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.3%	3.5%

The average commute time in Mississippi County is 15.8 minutes, shorter than the 18.5 minutes in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.5% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau