Saline County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Saline County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Saline County spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 217 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.5 minutes.

Saline County holds about 4.2% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 5.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Saline County would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,693 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)
Saline County	26.1 min	52.1 min	217 hrs/yr	$6,732	1,682
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 26.1 minutes to get to work in Saline County. That's 16% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 85% of counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Saline County

• Car: 87.8%
• Worked at Home: 10.4%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Other: 0.8%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Saline County: 5.0 times less than the Arkansas average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Saline County: 4.2 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is essentially absent in Saline County, versus 0.2% in Arkansas.

Commute Mode Trends in Saline County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Saline 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.6%	5.9%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.9%	4.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.6%	3.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.6%	3.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.8%	2.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.9%	2.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	95.6%	2.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.7%	2.8%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.6%	2.7%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.5%	2.8%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.4%	2.9%	0.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.5%	4.0%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.8%	5.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.6%	6.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.5%	8.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.8%	10.4%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	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 peaked in 2014 at 95.9%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 87.8% in 2024, down 4.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Saline County: its share of workers rose from 5.9% in 2009 to 10.4% in 2024, up 4.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Saline County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Saline County?

The bars show when commuters in Saline 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 Saline County3.9% Arkansas5.6%	3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Saline County3.9% Arkansas4.1%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Saline County6.1% Arkansas5.2%	6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Saline County12.6% Arkansas9.3%	12.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Saline County13.3% Arkansas11.2%	13.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Saline County20.7% Arkansas17.5%	20.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Saline County12.8% Arkansas13.9%	12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Saline County8.1% Arkansas9.2%	8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Saline County2.7% Arkansas3.6%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Saline County4.3% Arkansas4.5%	4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Saline County1.5% Arkansas2.2%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Saline County0.7% Arkansas1.1%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Saline County4.0% Arkansas6.2%	4.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Saline County5.5% Arkansas6.4%	5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Saline County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are less common than in Arkansas: 13.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arkansas: 54.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.9%) 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 Saline 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 Saline 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 Saline 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.

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• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Saline County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Saline County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:18 AM). Arkansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Saline County now leave 23 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 Saline County has moved 4 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Saline County in the whole series.

How does Saline County's commute time compare?

Metric	Saline County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.1 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.4%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Saline County is 26.1 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau