Sevier County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Sevier County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sevier County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 156 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.1 minutes.

Sevier County holds about 0.5% of Arkansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sevier County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,938 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)
Sevier County	18.8 min	37.5 min	156 hrs/yr	$4,845	363
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 18.8 minutes to get to work in Sevier County. That's 16% 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 1.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sevier County

• Car: 95.9%
• Worked at Home: 1.5% unusually low
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Sevier County: 5.8 times less than the Arkansas average (1.5% vs 8.8%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Sevier County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sevier 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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• Walked
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.6%	2.5%	2.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.4%	1.2%	2.7%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.5%	1.2%	3.4%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.3%	1.8%	3.4%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.1%	1.0%	2.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.6%	1.5%	3.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.0%	1.1%	3.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.9%	1.0%	2.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	96.2%	0.8%	2.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	95.5%	0.9%	2.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	94.3%	0.8%	3.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	94.9%	1.1%	3.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	94.3%	1.2%	3.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.8%	1.2%	3.8%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.0%	1.3%	3.0%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	95.9%	1.5%	1.5%	0.9%	0.2%	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 2017 at 96.2% and lowest in 2012 at 93.3%. Overall it rose from 93.6% in 2009 to 95.9% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.5% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Sevier County

• 🛌 Hitting SnoozeThe biggest shift to later mornings among Arkansas's 75 counties: the typical start is 16 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sevier County?

The bars show when commuters in Sevier 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 Sevier County8.3% Arkansas5.6%	8.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Sevier County4.5% Arkansas4.1%	4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Sevier County3.4% Arkansas5.2%	3.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Sevier County10.3% Arkansas9.3%	10.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Sevier County10.0% Arkansas11.2%	10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Sevier County14.0% Arkansas17.5%	14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Sevier County17.4% Arkansas13.9%	17.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Sevier County5.7% Arkansas9.2%	5.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Sevier County2.6% Arkansas3.6%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Sevier County2.7% Arkansas4.5%	2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Sevier County0.4% Arkansas2.2%	0.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Sevier County1.7% Arkansas1.1%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Sevier County9.8% Arkansas6.2%	9.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Sevier County9.2% Arkansas6.4%	9.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sevier County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 47.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.9%) 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 Sevier 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 Sevier 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 Sevier 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.

• Sevier County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Sevier County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:01 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:03 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:09 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sevier County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 16 minutes later than in 2009 (7:13 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Sevier County now leave 9 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 Sevier County has moved 27 minutes later.

How does Sevier County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sevier County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.8 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	1.5%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sevier County is about the same as in Arkansas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau