Bolivar County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bolivar County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bolivar County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 133 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 5.6 minutes.

Bolivar 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 Bolivar County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,644 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)
Bolivar County	15.9 min	31.8 min	133 hrs/yr	$4,111	486
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.

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On average, it takes 15.9 minutes to get to work in Bolivar County. That's 29% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 93% of counties in Mississippi

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 2.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bolivar County

• Car: 95.9%
• Worked at Home: 2.4%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Other: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Bolivar County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bolivar 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	91.4%	2.2%	4.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2010	92.3%	1.9%	3.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2011	91.3%	1.8%	5.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	92.2%	1.6%	5.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	93.4%	1.6%	4.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.2%	2.1%	3.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	93.9%	2.3%	3.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	93.1%	2.3%	3.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	94.0%	2.6%	2.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	92.9%	2.9%	2.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	93.6%	2.1%	2.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	93.8%	2.2%	2.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.5%	2.8%	1.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.8%	2.6%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.3%	2.1%	1.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	95.9%	2.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.1%	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 bottomed out in 2011 at 91.3%. Overall it rose from 91.4% in 2009 to 95.9% in 2024, up 4.5 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 6 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.4% to 1.4% of workers (down 3.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Bolivar County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bolivar County?

The bars show when commuters in Bolivar 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	12:00-4:59 AM Bolivar County6.0% Mississippi6.6%	6.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bolivar County4.6% Mississippi4.5%	4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bolivar County1.7% Mississippi5.3%	1.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bolivar County9.3% Mississippi11.1%	9.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bolivar County13.7% Mississippi12.4%	13.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bolivar County19.7% Mississippi17.1%	19.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bolivar County13.9% Mississippi12.6%	13.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bolivar County9.7% Mississippi8.2%	9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bolivar County1.8% Mississippi3.0%	1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bolivar County5.1% Mississippi4.0%	5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bolivar County1.4% Mississippi2.1%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bolivar County0.7% Mississippi0.8%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bolivar County8.1% Mississippi5.8%	8.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bolivar County4.3% Mississippi6.4%	4.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bolivar County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 12.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 57.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.6%) 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 Bolivar 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 Bolivar 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 Bolivar 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.

• Bolivar County
• Mississippi
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bolivar County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bolivar County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:30 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Bolivar County now leave 15 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 Bolivar County has moved 9 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Bolivar County in the whole series.

How does Bolivar County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bolivar County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.9 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.4%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bolivar County is 15.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau