Pulaski County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pulaski 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 Pulaski County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pulaski County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 154 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Pulaski County holds about 13.1% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 13.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pulaski County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,905 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)
Pulaski County	18.4 min	36.9 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,762	2,090
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

Pulaski County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.4 minutes to get to work in Pulaski County. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 11.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pulaski County

Commute Mode Trends in Pulaski County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pulaski 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	93.3%	2.9%	1.6%	0.6%	1.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	93.2%	3.0%	1.5%	0.7%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	93.5%	3.0%	1.4%	0.6%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	94.0%	2.8%	1.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	93.9%	2.7%	1.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	93.9%	2.9%	1.3%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	93.8%	2.9%	1.1%	0.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	93.9%	2.9%	1.1%	0.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	93.1%	3.4%	1.3%	0.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	92.9%	3.7%	1.3%	0.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	92.5%	3.8%	1.4%	1.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	91.0%	5.2%	1.4%	1.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	89.1%	7.3%	1.3%	1.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	88.0%	8.6%	1.2%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	86.2%	10.3%	1.3%	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	84.9%	11.9%	1.0%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 94.0%. Overall it fell from 93.3% in 2009 to 84.9% in 2024, down 8.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pulaski County: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 11.9% in 2024, up 9.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 1.0% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Pulaski County

Night OwlThe 3rd-latest start among Arkansas's 75 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 7:38 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pulaski County?

The bars show when commuters in Pulaski 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		4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pulaski County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are less common than in Arkansas: 9.8% 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 5 commuters (20.6%) 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 Pulaski 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 Pulaski 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 Pulaski 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	Pulaski County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:38 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:38 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pulaski County were on the road by 7:38 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:36 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Pulaski County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Pulaski County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Pulaski County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pulaski County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.4 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	11.9%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pulaski County is 18.4 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.7% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pulaski County, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Pulaski County, AR is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 399,629 residents against a local median of 75,267. Pulaski County, AR's work from home, at 11.9%, runs 40% above the 8.5% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 18.4 min against a local median of 26.1 min, 29% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 29% below the local median it puts Pulaski County, AR at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 3.1% on work from home, so Pulaski County, AR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Pulaski County, AR has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pulaski County, AR	399,629	18.4 min #1/6	11.9% #1/6	7:38 AM #6/6
Faulkner County, AR	127,709	21.2 min	8.5%	7:29 AM
Saline County, AR	127,467	26.1 min	10.4%	7:15 AM
Lonoke County, AR	75,267	28.5 min	7.9%	7:08 AM
Grant County, AR	18,243	28.4 min	10.3%	7:00 AM
Conway County, AR	21,055	22.9 min	7.4%	7:16 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pulaski County, Arkansas.

Is commuting expensive in Pulaski County, Arkansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 154 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,762 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pulaski 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.

Is Pulaski County, Arkansas a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 11.9% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Pulaski County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,905 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Which counties in Arkansas have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).