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Commute Time Burden in Attala County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Attala County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 183 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Attala County holds about 0.6% of Mississippi's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Attala County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,265 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)
Attala County 21.9 min 43.8 min 183 hrs/yr $5,662 273
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
  1. Sharkey County (11.9 min)
  2. Coahoma County (13.2 min)
  3. Leflore County (15.2 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Mississippi
  1. Wilkinson County (36.8 min)
  2. Tate County (32.8 min)
  3. Greene County (32.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Attala County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.9 minutes to get to work in Attala County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Attala County

  • Car: 94.4%
  • Worked at Home: 3.6%
  • Walked: 2.0%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Other: < 0.1%

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Attala County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

Public transit is essentially absent in Attala County, versus 0.3% in Mississippi.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Attala County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Attala 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 Walked Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle Other
2009 95.2% 1.8% 0.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.8%
2010 93.9% 1.9% 1.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.7%
2011 94.1% 2.2% 0.9% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 2.1%
2012 95.2% 1.7% 0.7% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 1.4%
2013 95.4% 1.6% 0.7% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 1.7%
2014 93.9% 1.6% 1.9% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 2.0%
2015 93.9% 1.1% 1.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 3.2%
2016 92.9% 0.9% 1.6% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 4.1%
2017 93.8% 0.9% 1.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 3.9%
2018 92.6% 1.0% 1.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 4.3%
2019 93.3% 1.7% 0.2% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 3.5%
2020 93.1% 1.4% 1.4% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.7%
2021 93.5% 2.0% 1.5% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.7%
2022 92.1% 2.5% 2.0% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.9%
2023 95.6% 2.5% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 94.4% 3.6% 2.0% 0.0% 0.0% 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 2023 at 95.6% and lowest in 2022 at 92.1%. Overall it fell from 95.2% in 2009 to 94.4% in 2024, down 0.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Attala County: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 3.6% in 2024, up 1.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit peaked at 1.5% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Attala County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Attala County?

The bars show when commuters in Attala 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
8.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
25.1%
7:30-7:59 AM
8.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
9.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Attala County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 25.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 19.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush looks much like Mississippi's: 50.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.1%) 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 Attala 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 Attala 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 Attala 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 Attala County Mississippi United States
2009 7:24 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:22 AM 7:21 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:18 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:16 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:12 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:06 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:08 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:10 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:09 AM 7:19 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:09 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:12 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:12 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:13 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:12 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:10 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:10 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Attala County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Attala County now leave 27 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 Attala County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Attala County's commute time compare?

Metric Attala County Mississippi US Average
Avg. Commute Time 21.9 min 21.5 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 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 3.6% 5.9% 15.0%
Walked 2.0% 1.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Attala County is about the same as in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 2.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Attala County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Attala County, MS is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 17,526 residents against a local median of 9,686. Where Attala County, MS breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 22% below the local median of 4.6% at 3.6%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 21.9 min against a local median of 26.6 min, 18% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 18% below the local median it puts Attala County, MS at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 4.8% on work from home, so Attala County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Attala County, MS has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Attala County, MS 17,526 21.9 min #2/6 3.6% #4/6 7:10 AM #5/6
Leake County, MS 21,319 26.6 min 5.9% 7:09 AM
Montgomery County, MS 9,602 21.1 min 4.6% 7:08 AM
Choctaw County, MS 8,118 28.3 min 2.9% 7:09 AM
Carroll County, MS 9,686 26.6 min 7.5% 7:12 AM
Holmes County, MS 16,191 32.5 min 2.7% 7:04 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Attala County, Mississippi.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Attala County, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 183 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,662 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Attala County, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Attala County, Mississippi. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Attala County, Mississippi?

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

How do commute times compare across counties in Mississippi?

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).