Nevada County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Nevada County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Nevada County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 186 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.8 minutes.

Nevada County holds about 0.3% of Arkansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Nevada County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,310 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)
Nevada County	22.4 min	44.7 min	186 hrs/yr	$5,776	237
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 22.4 minutes to get to work in Nevada County. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 74% of counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 0.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Nevada County

• Car: 97.5%
• Public Transportation: 1.2% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 0.9% unusually low
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Nevada County: 4.5 times less than the Arkansas average (0.3% vs 1.4%).

Public transit is unusually common in Nevada County: 4.7 times more than the Arkansas average (1.2% vs 0.3%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Nevada County: 9.7 times less than the Arkansas average (0.9% vs 8.8%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Nevada County: just 0.3%, 5.1 times below the Arkansas average of 1.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Nevada County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Nevada 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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• Public Transportation
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.1%	0.0%	1.3%	2.2%	6.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.8%	0.0%	2.0%	2.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	96.4%	0.3%	1.8%	0.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	96.3%	0.2%	2.5%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	95.8%	0.2%	2.1%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	94.5%	0.2%	2.6%	0.1%	2.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.9%	0.2%	3.4%	0.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.1%	0.0%	3.5%	0.5%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.7%	0.7%	2.7%	1.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.4%	0.6%	2.7%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	94.8%	0.4%	2.0%	2.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	96.3%	1.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	96.7%	1.5%	0.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	98.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	97.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	97.5%	1.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	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 2022 at 98.0%. Overall it rose from 90.1% in 2009 to 97.5% in 2024, up 7.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Public transit gained the most ground in Nevada County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 1.2% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 3.5% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.9%.

Commute Start Times in Nevada County

• 🛌 Hitting SnoozeThe 2nd-biggest shift to later mornings among Arkansas's 75 counties: the typical start is 11 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Nevada County?

The bars show when commuters in Nevada 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 Nevada County6.7% Arkansas5.6%	6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Nevada County3.3% Arkansas4.1%	3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Nevada County5.9% Arkansas5.2%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Nevada County9.8% Arkansas9.3%	9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Nevada County6.3% Arkansas11.2%	6.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Nevada County17.9% Arkansas17.5%	17.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Nevada County12.3% Arkansas13.9%	12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Nevada County11.1% Arkansas9.2%	11.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Nevada County3.1% Arkansas3.6%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Nevada County3.7% Arkansas4.5%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Nevada County0.1% Arkansas2.2%	0.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Nevada County1.4% Arkansas1.1%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Nevada County13.8% Arkansas6.2%	13.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Nevada County4.6% Arkansas6.4%	4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Nevada County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 15.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 47.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.6%) 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 Nevada 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 Nevada 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 Nevada 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.

• Nevada County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Nevada County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 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	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Nevada County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:19 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Nevada County now leave 8 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 Nevada County has moved 17 minutes later.

How does Nevada County's commute time compare?

Metric	Nevada County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.4 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 PM – 03:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	0.9%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Nevada County is 22.4 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

1.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau