St. Francis County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in St. Francis County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in St. Francis County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

St. Francis County holds about 0.7% of Arkansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in St. Francis County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,701 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)
St. Francis County	16.5 min	32.9 min	137 hrs/yr	$4,252	371
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.

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On average, it takes 16.5 minutes to get to work in St. Francis County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 78% of counties in Arkansas

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 3.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in St. Francis County

• Car: 93.6%
• Worked at Home: 3.0%
• Other: 1.7%
• Walked: 1.6%
• 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 St. Francis County, versus 0.1% in Arkansas.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in St. Francis County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in St. Francis 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.4%	1.6%	0.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.9%	2.6%	0.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	96.2%	2.8%	0.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.1%	2.4%	0.5%	2.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.7%	2.2%	0.7%	2.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.0%	1.8%	1.3%	3.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.6%	2.4%	1.5%	3.4%	0.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	89.8%	3.1%	2.1%	3.4%	0.1%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	92.0%	4.1%	2.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	90.4%	5.1%	2.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	91.0%	5.1%	2.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	93.4%	2.8%	1.7%	2.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.9%	3.1%	0.7%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.9%	2.5%	1.2%	2.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.2%	3.0%	1.2%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.6%	3.0%	1.7%	1.6%	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 bottomed out in 2016 at 89.8%. Overall it fell from 96.4% in 2009 to 93.6% in 2024, down 2.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in St. Francis County: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 3.0% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points.

Working from home peaked at 5.1% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 3.0%.

Commute Start Times in St. Francis County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in St. Francis County?

The bars show when commuters in St. Francis 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 St. Francis County5.4% Arkansas5.6%	5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM St. Francis County3.2% Arkansas4.1%	3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM St. Francis County5.9% Arkansas5.2%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM St. Francis County11.3% Arkansas9.3%	11.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM St. Francis County9.7% Arkansas11.2%	9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM St. Francis County17.4% Arkansas17.5%	17.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM St. Francis County13.6% Arkansas13.9%	13.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM St. Francis County7.8% Arkansas9.2%	7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM St. Francis County1.9% Arkansas3.6%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM St. Francis County3.2% Arkansas4.5%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM St. Francis County2.0% Arkansas2.2%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM St. Francis County2.8% Arkansas1.1%	2.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM St. Francis County8.9% Arkansas6.2%	8.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM St. Francis County7.0% Arkansas6.4%	7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in St. Francis County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are about as common as in Arkansas: 14.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 48.5% 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 St. Francis 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 St. Francis 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 St. Francis 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	St. Francis County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in St. Francis County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:21 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in St. Francis County now leave 13 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 St. Francis County has moved 10 minutes later.

How does St. Francis County's commute time compare?

Metric	St. Francis County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.5 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	3.0%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in St. Francis County is 16.5 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau