Poinsett County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Poinsett 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 Poinsett County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Poinsett 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 7.7 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 3.7 minutes.

Poinsett County holds about 0.7% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Poinsett County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,302 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)
Poinsett County	22.3 min	44.5 min	186 hrs/yr	$5,754	327
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

Poinsett County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.3 minutes to get to work in Poinsett County. That's 1% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 73% of counties in Arkansas

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 3.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Poinsett County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Poinsett County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Poinsett 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.9%	3.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.6%	3.3%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.8%	3.0%	1.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.0%	3.4%	1.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.6%	3.0%	1.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.0%	2.6%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.7%	2.9%	1.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	94.5%	3.4%	1.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	94.3%	3.6%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	93.1%	4.9%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	93.1%	5.2%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	92.6%	4.9%	1.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	93.1%	4.6%	1.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.2%	4.8%	2.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.9%	3.3%	2.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.4%	3.9%	2.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	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 95.0% and lowest in 2022 at 92.2%. Overall it fell from 94.9% in 2009 to 92.4% in 2024, down 2.5 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Poinsett County: its share of workers rose from 1.1% in 2009 to 2.6% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home peaked at 5.2% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 3.9%.

Commute Start Times in Poinsett County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Poinsett County?

The bars show when commuters in Poinsett 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		10.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Poinsett County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 20.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 48.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.6%) 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 Poinsett 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 Poinsett 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 Poinsett 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	Poinsett County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:09 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:07 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:08 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Poinsett County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:09 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Poinsett County now leave 22 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 Poinsett County has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Poinsett County's commute time compare?

Metric	Poinsett County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.3 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	3.9%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	2.6%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Poinsett County is 22.3 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 2.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Poinsett County, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Poinsett County, AR is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 22,543 residents against a local median of 46,432. The measure that sets Poinsett County, AR apart most is one-way commute: 22.3 min, 29% above the local median of 17.3 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 3.7 min on one-way commute, so Poinsett County, AR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Poinsett County, AR has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Poinsett County, AR	22,543	22.3 min #6/6	3.9% #5/6	7:16 AM #2/6
Craighead County, AR	113,245	17.3 min	6.8%	7:35 AM
Cross County, AR	16,543	18.9 min	4.5%	7:09 AM
Crittenden County, AR	47,563	18.8 min	7.1%	7:27 AM
Jackson County, AR	16,709	15.2 min	2.5%	7:30 AM
Greene County, AR	46,432	17.3 min	4.3%	7:17 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Poinsett County, Arkansas.

Is living in Poinsett County, Arkansas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 186 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,754 at a typical national wage. That's 20% more than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Poinsett County, Arkansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Poinsett County, 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 do commute times compare across 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).