Perry County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Perry County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Perry County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 268 hours, about 11.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 73% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 13.6 minutes.

Perry County holds about 0.3% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Perry County would save about 107 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,327 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)
Perry County	32.2 min	64.4 min	268 hrs/yr	$8,318	636
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 32.2 minutes to get to work in Perry County. That's 44% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Perry County

• Car: 91.3%
• Worked at Home: 6.5%
• Other: 1.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Perry County: 5.0 times less than the Arkansas average (0.3% vs 1.4%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Perry County: just 0.3%, 5.6 times below the Arkansas average of 1.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Perry County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Perry 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	90.0%	6.5%	0.0%	0.2%	2.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.4%	5.6%	0.4%	0.2%	3.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.6%	3.9%	0.6%	0.2%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.5%	3.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.2%	3.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.0%	3.9%	0.9%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.1%	5.9%	0.4%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	91.9%	6.3%	0.3%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	88.8%	9.1%	0.4%	0.0%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	89.3%	8.5%	0.4%	0.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	91.2%	7.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	91.5%	7.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.8%	6.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.8%	5.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.1%	6.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.3%	6.5%	1.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2013 at 95.2% and lowest in 2017 at 88.8%. Overall it rose from 90.0% in 2009 to 91.3% in 2024, up 1.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 0.3% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 9.1% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 6.5%.

Commute Start Times in Perry County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Perry County?

The bars show when commuters in Perry 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 Perry County6.8% Arkansas5.6%	6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Perry County9.7% Arkansas4.1%	9.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Perry County4.1% Arkansas5.2%	4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Perry County14.1% Arkansas9.3%	14.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Perry County9.9% Arkansas11.2%	9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Perry County19.4% Arkansas17.5%	19.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Perry County11.5% Arkansas13.9%	11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Perry County4.5% Arkansas9.2%	4.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Perry County1.5% Arkansas3.6%	1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Perry County2.6% Arkansas4.5%	2.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Perry County2.5% Arkansas2.2%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Perry County0.7% Arkansas1.1%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Perry County6.1% Arkansas6.2%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Perry County6.5% Arkansas6.4%	6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Perry County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 20.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 45.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.4%) 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 Perry 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 Perry 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 Perry 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Perry County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:07 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:06 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:07 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:05 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:04 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:01 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:04 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:02 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:03 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:08 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Perry County were on the road by 7:08 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:07 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Perry 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 Perry County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Perry County's commute time compare?

Metric	Perry County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.2 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.5%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Perry County is 32.2 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Arkansas. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau