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Commuting in Sherwood, 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 Sherwood: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sherwood spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 180 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% more time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.0 minutes.

Sherwood holds about 1.0% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sherwood would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,237 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)
Sherwood 21.7 min 43.3 min 180 hrs/yr $5,593 2,608
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.

Sherwood Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.7 minutes to get to work in Sherwood. That's 3% 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 12.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sherwood

  • Car: 85.7%
  • Worked at Home: 12.4%
  • Other: 0.8%
  • Walked: 0.7%
  • Motorcycle: 0.3%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Sherwood: 11.5 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Sherwood: 3.3 times less than the Arkansas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Sherwood, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sherwood 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 Other Walked Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 94.5% 2.7% 0.7% 1.4% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
2010 93.9% 3.0% 0.9% 1.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.1% 0.1%
2011 93.8% 3.7% 0.6% 1.0% 0.1% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1%
2012 94.5% 3.1% 0.7% 1.1% 0.0% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0%
2013 95.2% 2.8% 0.7% 0.4% 0.3% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0%
2014 94.4% 3.5% 0.8% 0.6% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 95.1% 3.1% 0.7% 0.4% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2016 95.2% 3.3% 0.7% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2017 95.0% 3.6% 0.5% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2018 95.0% 3.9% 0.6% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2019 94.4% 3.9% 0.6% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2020 91.8% 5.9% 0.4% 1.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2021 89.5% 8.4% 0.5% 0.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2022 87.9% 10.1% 0.7% 0.6% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2023 86.6% 11.3% 0.6% 0.7% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2024 85.7% 12.4% 0.8% 0.7% 0.3% 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 peaked in 2013 at 95.2%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 85.7% in 2024, down 8.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sherwood: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 12.4% in 2024, up 9.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Sherwood

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sherwood?

The bars show when commuters in Sherwood 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
4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
19.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
17.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
5.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sherwood is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are less common than in Arkansas: 10.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arkansas: 57.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.0%) 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 Sherwood, 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 Sherwood 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 Sherwood 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 Sherwood Arkansas United States
2009 7:28 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:33 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:30 AM 7:28 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:30 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:29 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:28 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:26 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:24 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:23 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:25 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:25 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:26 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:28 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:32 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:31 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:29 AM 7:25 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sherwood were on the road by 7:29 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:28 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Sherwood 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 Sherwood has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Sherwood's commute time compare?

Metric Sherwood Arkansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 21.7 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 12.4% 8.8% 15.0%
Walked 0.7% 1.4% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Sherwood is 21.7 minutes, longer than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Sherwood, AR Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Sherwood, AR compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Sherwood, AR 30,507 21.7 min #3/3 12.4% #1/3 7:29 AM #2/3
North Little Rock, AR 58,195 18.1 min 9.9% 7:40 AM
Jacksonville, AR 24,180 20.8 min 8.5% 7:27 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Sherwood, Arkansas.

Is commuting expensive in Sherwood, Arkansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 180 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,593 at a typical national wage. That's 16% more than the typical Arkansas commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Sherwood, 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.

Do people use public transit in Sherwood, Arkansas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Arkansas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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

About 12.4% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Sherwood would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,237 at the same national wage assumption used above.