Yell County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Yell County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Yell County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 152 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Arkansas average of 18.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Yell 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 Yell County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,879 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)
Yell County	18.2 min	36.4 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,698	531
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 18.2 minutes to get to work in Yell County. That's 19% 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 7.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Yell County

• Car: 88.9%
• Worked at Home: 7.1%
• Other: 2.6%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is essentially absent in Yell County, versus 0.3% in Arkansas.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Yell County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Yell 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
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.6%	3.2%	0.9%	2.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.0%	3.8%	1.2%	1.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.9%	4.2%	1.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.7%	5.0%	0.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	92.6%	4.1%	1.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.2%	3.2%	1.8%	2.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	91.2%	4.6%	1.9%	1.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	91.6%	3.9%	1.7%	2.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	89.0%	5.9%	2.0%	2.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	89.9%	6.6%	1.0%	2.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	90.1%	6.9%	1.3%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	91.2%	6.1%	1.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	89.6%	8.1%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	90.0%	7.9%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.1%	7.7%	2.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.9%	7.1%	2.6%	1.2%	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 peaked in 2010 at 93.0%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 88.9% in 2024, down 3.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Yell County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 7.1% in 2024, up 3.9 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 1.2% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 8.1% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 7.1%.

Commute Start Times in Yell County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Yell County?

The bars show when commuters in Yell 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 Yell County9.9% Arkansas5.6%	9.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Yell County9.2% Arkansas4.1%	9.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Yell County2.0% Arkansas5.2%	2.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Yell County10.2% Arkansas9.3%	10.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Yell County7.9% Arkansas11.2%	7.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Yell County17.9% Arkansas17.5%	17.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Yell County13.1% Arkansas13.9%	13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Yell County8.3% Arkansas9.2%	8.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Yell County2.2% Arkansas3.6%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Yell County0.8% Arkansas4.5%	0.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Yell County0.6% Arkansas2.2%	0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Yell County0.9% Arkansas1.1%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Yell County6.3% Arkansas6.2%	6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Yell County10.8% Arkansas6.4%	10.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Yell County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.5% across Arkansas. Early starts are more common than in Arkansas: 21.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arkansas: 47.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.4%) 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 Yell 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 Yell 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 Yell 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.

• Yell County
• Arkansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Yell County	Arkansas	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:28 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Yell County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 2 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 Yell County now leave 20 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Yell County's commute time compare?

Metric	Yell County	Arkansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 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	7.1%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Yell County is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 18.6 minutes in Arkansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Arkansas. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.4% in Arkansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau