Stone County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Stone County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stone County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way.

Stone County holds about 0.4% of Arkansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Stone County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,922 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)
Stone County	18.6 min	37.2 min	155 hrs/yr	$4,805	272
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 18.6 minutes to get to work in Stone County. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Stone County

• Car: 83.9%
• Worked at Home: 10.0%
• Walked: 3.9%
• Other: 1.2%
• Public Transportation: 1.1% unusually high
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually common in Stone County: 4.0 times more than the Arkansas average (1.1% vs 0.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Stone County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	88.9%	6.4%	2.6%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.9%	7.4%	0.9%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	89.5%	6.2%	1.0%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.2%	6.1%	1.9%	3.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	87.2%	6.9%	2.1%	3.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	88.4%	5.7%	1.1%	4.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	89.7%	6.2%	0.8%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	86.1%	6.4%	2.7%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	2.4%	0.0%
2017	83.8%	8.9%	3.5%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%
2018	86.6%	6.9%	3.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	2.5%	0.0%
2019	87.7%	6.0%	4.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%
2020	86.6%	6.7%	4.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%
2021	89.6%	5.7%	4.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.5%	5.0%	2.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.0%	6.1%	2.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.9%	10.0%	3.9%	1.2%	1.1%	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 2022 at 91.5% and lowest in 2017 at 83.8%. Overall it fell from 88.9% in 2009 to 83.9% in 2024, down 5.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Stone County: its share of workers rose from 6.4% in 2009 to 10.0% in 2024, up 3.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle peaked at 2.5% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Stone County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Stone County?

The bars show when commuters in Stone 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 Stone County2.7% Arkansas5.6%	2.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Stone County2.2% Arkansas4.1%	2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Stone County3.7% Arkansas5.2%	3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Stone County10.6% Arkansas9.3%	10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Stone County11.3% Arkansas11.2%	11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Stone County23.2% Arkansas17.5%	23.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Stone County8.1% Arkansas13.9%	8.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Stone County9.4% Arkansas9.2%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Stone County2.0% Arkansas3.6%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Stone County5.6% Arkansas4.5%	5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Stone County5.9% Arkansas2.2%	5.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Stone County0.7% Arkansas1.1%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Stone County4.5% Arkansas6.2%	4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Stone County10.0% Arkansas6.4%	10.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Stone County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are less common than in Arkansas: 8.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Arkansas's: 52.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.8%) 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 Stone 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 Stone 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 Stone 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.

• Stone County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Stone County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Stone County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). That goes against the trend across Arkansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Stone County now leave 13 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Stone County's commute time compare?

Metric	Stone County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.6 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.0%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	3.9%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.1%	0.3%	3.2%

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

1.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 3.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau