Pope County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Pope County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pope County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Pope County holds about 2.1% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pope County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,700 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)
Pope County	16.5 min	32.9 min	137 hrs/yr	$4,250	477
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 16.5 minutes to get to work in Pope County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 81% of 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 5.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pope County

• Car: 91.2%
• Worked at Home: 5.0%
• Walked: 1.7%
• Other: 1.6%
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Pope County: 4.3 times less than the Arkansas average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Biking is unusually rare in Pope County: 7.2 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Pope County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pope 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	95.2%	2.6%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	94.3%	3.3%	1.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	94.9%	2.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	94.4%	2.5%	1.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	94.8%	2.3%	1.4%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	94.7%	2.4%	1.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	93.9%	2.3%	2.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	93.7%	2.5%	1.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	93.3%	2.8%	1.9%	1.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	93.7%	2.7%	1.9%	1.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	93.1%	2.9%	2.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	93.2%	2.9%	1.8%	1.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	92.7%	4.1%	1.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	92.2%	3.9%	1.9%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	91.7%	4.2%	1.9%	1.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.2%	5.0%	1.7%	1.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 95.2% in 2009 to 91.2% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pope County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 5.0% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Pope County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pope County?

The bars show when commuters in Pope 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 Pope County6.6% Arkansas5.6%	6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Pope County4.8% Arkansas4.1%	4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Pope County7.0% Arkansas5.2%	7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Pope County7.2% Arkansas9.3%	7.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Pope County9.0% Arkansas11.2%	9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Pope County14.0% Arkansas17.5%	14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Pope County13.9% Arkansas13.9%	13.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Pope County7.4% Arkansas9.2%	7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Pope County3.0% Arkansas3.6%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Pope County5.0% Arkansas4.5%	5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Pope County2.7% Arkansas2.2%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Pope County1.1% Arkansas1.1%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Pope County10.2% Arkansas6.2%	10.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Pope County8.2% Arkansas6.4%	8.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pope County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 18.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 44.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.2%) 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 Pope 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 Pope 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 Pope 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.

• Pope County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Pope County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pope County were on the road by 7:33 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). Arkansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Pope County now leave 5 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 Pope County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Pope County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pope County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.5 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	5.0%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pope County is 16.5 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau