Scott County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Scott County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Scott County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 141 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.7 minutes.

Scott County holds about 0.3% of Arkansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Scott County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,750 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)
Scott County	16.9 min	33.9 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,376	297
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 16.9 minutes to get to work in Scott County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 73% of counties in Arkansas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Scott County

• Car: 92.1%
• Worked at Home: 4.3%
• Other: 2.2%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Scott County, versus 0.3% in Arkansas.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Scott County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Scott 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
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.2%	5.6%	2.1%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	88.0%	6.8%	2.1%	2.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	90.2%	7.1%	0.7%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	89.7%	6.3%	0.7%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2013	88.3%	7.4%	1.5%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2014	88.4%	7.4%	1.2%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	90.4%	6.0%	1.2%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2016	91.4%	4.7%	1.2%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2017	91.3%	4.8%	1.0%	2.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.4%	2.9%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	94.3%	3.1%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.5%
2020	94.1%	2.8%	1.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2021	92.4%	3.3%	2.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2022	92.8%	2.7%	2.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.3%
2023	90.5%	3.4%	3.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%
2024	92.1%	4.3%	2.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	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 2018 at 95.4% and lowest in 2010 at 88.0%. Overall it rose from 89.2% in 2009 to 92.1% in 2024, up 2.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 5.6% to 4.3% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Riding a motorcycle peaked at 1.1% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Scott County

• 🌅 Dawn PatrolThe 3rd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Arkansas's 75 counties: 30.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Scott County?

The bars show when commuters in Scott 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 Scott County14.6% Arkansas5.6%	14.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Scott County5.0% Arkansas4.1%	5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Scott County11.1% Arkansas5.2%	11.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Scott County6.0% Arkansas9.3%	6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Scott County13.6% Arkansas11.2%	13.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Scott County15.7% Arkansas17.5%	15.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Scott County5.6% Arkansas13.9%	5.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Scott County8.6% Arkansas9.2%	8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Scott County1.6% Arkansas3.6%	1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Scott County1.6% Arkansas4.5%	1.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Scott County2.5% Arkansas2.2%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Scott County0.5% Arkansas1.1%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Scott County6.0% Arkansas6.2%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Scott County7.6% Arkansas6.4%	7.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Scott County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 30.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 43.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.1%) 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 Scott 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 Scott 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 Scott 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.

• Scott County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Scott County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:14 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:56 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:01 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:00 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:04 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:59 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Scott County were on the road by 6:59 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:16 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arkansas, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Scott County now leave 39 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 Scott County has moved 12 minutes earlier.

How does Scott County's commute time compare?

Metric	Scott County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.9 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.3%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Scott County is 16.9 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau