Phillips County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Phillips County, Arkansas: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Phillips County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Phillips County spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 110 hours, about 4.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.4 minutes.

Phillips County holds about 0.5% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Phillips County would save about 44 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,366 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)
Phillips County	13.2 min	26.4 min	110 hrs/yr	$3,414	192
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Arkansas

Arkansas County (11.9 min)
Phillips County (13.2 min)
Howard County (13.4 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Arkansas

Perry County (32.2 min)
Newton County (31.6 min)
Madison County (31.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Phillips County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 13.2 minutes to get to work in Phillips County. That's 41% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest 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 4.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Phillips County

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Phillips County: 7.8 times more than the Arkansas average (0.8% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Phillips County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Phillips 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.5%	2.5%	2.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	94.7%	2.5%	2.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.7%	3.5%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	95.4%	2.9%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	94.5%	3.4%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.4%	2.9%	2.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	93.7%	2.8%	2.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	93.3%	2.2%	2.8%	1.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.6%	2.0%	2.3%	1.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.2%	1.4%	1.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.8%	1.5%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	96.6%	1.7%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	94.1%	2.5%	2.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	91.8%	4.5%	2.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	91.6%	4.0%	1.5%	1.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	88.0%	4.1%	3.8%	2.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2020 at 96.6%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 88.0% in 2024, down 6.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Phillips County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 3.8% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi overtook biking to become the 6th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Phillips County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Phillips County?

The bars show when commuters in Phillips 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		7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		1.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Phillips County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.4% 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 concentrated than in Arkansas: 55.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.9%) 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 Phillips 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 Phillips 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 Phillips 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Phillips County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:22 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Phillips County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arkansas, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Phillips County now leave 13 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 Phillips County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Phillips County's commute time compare?

Metric	Phillips County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.2 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.1%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	3.8%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Phillips County is 13.2 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 3.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Phillips County, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Phillips County, AR is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 15,415 residents against a local median of 9,475. Phillips County, AR's one-way commute, at 13.2 min, runs 36% below the 20.7 min typical of the counties around it. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 14.7 min on one-way commute, so Phillips County, AR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Phillips County, AR has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Phillips County, AR	15,415	13.2 min #2/6	4.1% #4/6	7:25 AM #6/6
Coahoma County, MS	20,540	13.2 min	8.0%	7:22 AM
Lee County, AR	8,359	20.7 min	16.8%	7:06 AM
Monroe County, AR	6,589	26.6 min	4.2%	7:12 AM
Tunica County, MS	9,475	26.6 min	1.1%	7:24 AM
Arkansas County, AR	16,514	11.9 min	2.8%	7:16 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Phillips County, Arkansas.

Is commuting expensive in Phillips County, Arkansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 110 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,414 at a typical national wage. That's 29% less than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Phillips County, Arkansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Phillips County, Arkansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Arkansas?

Among counties in Arkansas, the shortest average commutes are in Arkansas County (11.9 min), Phillips County (13.2 min), Howard County (13.4 min). The longest are in Perry County (32.2 min), Newton County (31.6 min), Madison County (31.1 min).