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Commuting in Pine Bluff, 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 Pine Bluff: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pine Bluff spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 140 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Pine Bluff holds about 1.0% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pine Bluff would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,738 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)
Pine Bluff 16.8 min 33.6 min 140 hrs/yr $4,344 1,346
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.

Pine Bluff Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.8 minutes to get to work in Pine Bluff. That's 25% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pine Bluff

  • Car: 93.5%
  • Worked at Home: 3.0%
  • Walked: 1.4%
  • Public Transportation: 1.2% unusually high
  • Bicycle: 0.6% unusually high
  • Other: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Pine Bluff, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.

Public transit is unusually common in Pine Bluff: 4.3 times more than the Arkansas average (1.2% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Pine Bluff, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.

Biking is unusually common in Pine Bluff: 4.1 times more than the Arkansas average (0.6% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Pine Bluff, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pine Bluff 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 Public Transportation Bicycle Other Taxi Motorcycle
2009 92.8% 0.7% 1.6% 0.6% 0.1% 4.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2010 92.8% 0.8% 1.6% 0.5% 0.1% 4.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2011 93.5% 0.8% 1.4% 0.5% 0.1% 3.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 93.5% 0.9% 1.3% 0.8% 0.1% 3.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2013 94.1% 1.5% 1.1% 0.9% 0.0% 2.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 94.2% 2.0% 1.0% 0.6% 0.0% 2.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2015 93.3% 2.4% 1.5% 0.7% 0.0% 2.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 93.1% 2.3% 1.4% 0.8% 0.0% 2.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 92.5% 2.7% 2.5% 0.3% 0.0% 2.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 92.7% 2.2% 2.3% 0.3% 0.0% 2.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 91.7% 2.9% 3.3% 0.3% 0.0% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 93.7% 2.3% 1.9% 0.8% 0.0% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 92.6% 4.2% 1.4% 0.8% 0.0% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 91.8% 5.0% 1.1% 1.0% 0.0% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 91.8% 5.5% 1.2% 1.0% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 93.5% 3.0% 1.4% 1.2% 0.6% 0.4% 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 2014 at 94.2% and lowest in 2019 at 91.7%. Overall it rose from 92.8% in 2009 to 93.5% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pine Bluff: its share of workers rose from 0.7% in 2009 to 3.0% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 5.5% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 3.0%.

Commute Start Times in Pine Bluff

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pine Bluff?

The bars show when commuters in Pine Bluff 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
7.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
6.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
16.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM
12.9%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.0%

Pine Bluff Arkansas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Pine Bluff is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 17.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 44.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.2%) 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 Pine Bluff, 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 Pine Bluff 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 Pine Bluff 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 Pine Bluff Arkansas United States
2009 7:38 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:36 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:39 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:38 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:38 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:37 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:36 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:34 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:35 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:36 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:39 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:40 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:38 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:40 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:39 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:37 AM 7:25 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pine Bluff were on the road by 7:37 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). Across Arkansas the shift was bigger still, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Pine Bluff now leave 1 minute 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 Pine Bluff has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Pine Bluff's commute time compare?

Metric Pine Bluff Arkansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 16.8 min 18.6 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 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 3.0% 8.8% 15.0%
Walked 1.4% 1.4% 2.4%
Public Transit 1.2% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Pine Bluff is 16.8 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

1.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Arkansas. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Is commuting expensive in Pine Bluff, Arkansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 140 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,344 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Pine Bluff, Arkansas?

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

How common is public transit use in Pine Bluff, Arkansas?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 1.2% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Arkansas, making it a realistic option for many workers.