Sebastian County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Sebastian 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 Sebastian County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sebastian 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 142 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Sebastian County holds about 4.2% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 3.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sebastian County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,760 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)
Sebastian County	17.0 min	34.1 min	142 hrs/yr	$4,400	1,276
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

Sebastian County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.0 minutes to get to work in Sebastian County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 7.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sebastian County

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Sebastian County: 3.2 times more than the Arkansas average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Sebastian County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sebastian 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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Public Transportation
2009	95.2%	2.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%
2010	94.8%	2.2%	1.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%
2011	94.7%	2.3%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.5%
2012	95.0%	2.0%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	94.7%	2.1%	1.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	94.9%	2.1%	1.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%
2015	95.1%	1.9%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%
2016	94.3%	1.9%	1.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%
2017	93.8%	2.3%	1.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%
2018	93.0%	2.8%	1.8%	1.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.6%
2019	92.8%	3.2%	1.8%	1.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2020	91.9%	4.3%	1.6%	1.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	91.7%	4.9%	1.3%	1.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	91.0%	6.0%	1.1%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	89.8%	7.1%	1.2%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	89.8%	7.6%	1.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%

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 89.8% in 2024, down 5.4 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sebastian County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 7.6% in 2024, up 5.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Sebastian County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sebastian County?

The bars show when commuters in Sebastian 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		5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sebastian County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% 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 looks much like Arkansas's: 50.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.5%) 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 Sebastian 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 Sebastian 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 Sebastian 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	Sebastian County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:41 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 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	7:37 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sebastian County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:40 AM). Arkansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Sebastian County now leave 1 minute 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 Sebastian County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Sebastian County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sebastian County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.0 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	7.6%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sebastian County is 17.0 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Sebastian County, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Sebastian County, AR is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 128,900 residents against a local median of 21,212. The measure that sets Sebastian County, AR apart most is work from home: 7.6%, 40% above the local median of 5.4%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 17.0 min against a local median of 20.3 min, 16% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 16% below the local median it puts Sebastian County, AR at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 6.8% on work from home, so Sebastian County, AR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Sebastian County, AR has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Sebastian County, AR	128,900	17.0 min #2/6	7.6% #2/6	7:37 AM #6/6
Crawford County, AR	61,139	21.7 min	6.3%	7:17 AM
Scott County, AR	9,816	16.9 min	4.3%	6:59 AM
Franklin County, AR	17,335	18.4 min	2.8%	7:13 AM
Le Flore County, OK	49,055	20.3 min	5.4%	7:25 AM
Logan County, AR	21,212	21.6 min	9.6%	7:13 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Sebastian County, Arkansas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Sebastian County, Arkansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 142 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,400 at a typical national wage. That's 8% less than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Sebastian County, Arkansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Sebastian 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).