Adams County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Adams County, Mississippi: 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 Adams County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Adams County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 130 hours, about 5.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 5.9 minutes.

Adams County holds about 1.0% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Adams County would save about 52 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,618 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)
Adams County	15.7 min	31.3 min	130 hrs/yr	$4,044	291
Mississippi	21.5 min	43.0 min	179 hrs/yr	$5,558	914
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: Mississippi Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Mississippi

Sharkey County (11.9 min)
Coahoma County (13.2 min)
Leflore County (15.2 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Mississippi

Wilkinson County (36.8 min)
Tate County (32.8 min)
Greene County (32.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Adams County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.7 minutes to get to work in Adams County. That's 30% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in Mississippi

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 2.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Adams County

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Adams County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

Biking is essentially absent in Adams County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

Commute Mode Trends in Adams County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Adams 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.

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	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.0%	2.4%	1.8%	2.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.0%	2.6%	0.7%	1.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.5%	2.4%	0.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.5%	2.6%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.5%	2.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.9%	3.4%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.8%	3.2%	1.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.3%	4.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.7%	3.7%	1.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.7%	3.1%	0.5%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.9%	2.4%	0.7%	0.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.6%	2.2%	0.5%	0.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	96.5%	2.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	96.5%	2.3%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.6%	2.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.0%	2.5%	2.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	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 2021 at 96.5%. Overall it rose from 93.0% in 2009 to 94.0% in 2024, up 1.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 0.5% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 4.3% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 2.5%.

Commute Start Times in Adams County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Adams County?

The bars show when commuters in Adams 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 Mississippi for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		23.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		2.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.2%

Adams County Mississippi Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Adams County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 23.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 10.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 56.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.2%) 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 Adams 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 Adams 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 Adams County next to Mississippi 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	Adams County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Adams County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Mississippi followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Adams County now leave 6 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 Adams County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Adams County's commute time compare?

Metric	Adams County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.7 min	21.5 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.5%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Adams County is 15.7 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Adams County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Adams County, MS is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 28,803 residents against a local median of 7,622. The measure that sets Adams County, MS apart most is one-way commute: 15.7 min, 40% below the local median of 26.1 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 2.5% against a local median of 3.9%, 37% below it. The counties themselves spread 19.9 min on one-way commute, so Adams County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Adams County, MS has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Adams County, MS	28,803	15.7 min #1/6	2.5% #6/6	7:32 AM #6/6
Concordia Parish, LA	18,174	16.9 min	3.9%	7:23 AM
Wilkinson County, MS	8,162	36.8 min	5.9%	6:38 AM
Jefferson County, MS	7,068	26.1 min	4.5%	7:03 AM
Franklin County, MS	7,622	26.8 min	2.8%	7:04 AM
Tensas Parish, LA	3,935	20.5 min	3.5%	7:28 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Adams County, Mississippi.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Adams County, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 130 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,044 at a typical national wage. That's 27% less than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Adams County, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Adams County, Mississippi. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Which counties in Mississippi have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Mississippi, the shortest average commutes are in Sharkey County (11.9 min), Coahoma County (13.2 min), Leflore County (15.2 min). The longest are in Wilkinson County (36.8 min), Tate County (32.8 min), Greene County (32.7 min).