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Carroll County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Carroll County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Carroll County spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 222 hours, about 9.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

Carroll County holds about 0.3% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Carroll County would save about 89 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,747 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)
Carroll County 26.6 min 53.2 min 222 hrs/yr $6,868 514
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

Carroll County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 26.6 minutes to get to work in Carroll County. That's 19% longer 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 7.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Carroll County

  • Car: 86.8%
  • Worked at Home: 7.5%
  • Other: 5.0%
  • Walked: 0.7%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Carroll County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Carroll 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 Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 94.8% 3.1% 0.4% 1.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0%
2010 94.4% 3.5% 0.0% 1.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0%
2011 94.9% 3.2% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0%
2012 94.1% 2.8% 1.8% 1.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 95.1% 1.8% 1.2% 1.3% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 95.2% 0.7% 1.5% 1.7% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 96.4% 0.2% 1.0% 2.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 95.8% 1.3% 0.3% 2.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 97.1% 1.6% 0.0% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 95.8% 2.8% 0.0% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 96.0% 3.5% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 91.4% 7.6% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 94.7% 4.7% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 92.2% 6.9% 0.2% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 88.2% 7.8% 3.4% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 86.8% 7.5% 5.0% 0.7% 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 peaked in 2017 at 97.1%. Overall it fell from 94.8% in 2009 to 86.8% in 2024, down 8.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Carroll County: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 7.5% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 2.1% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.

Commute Start Times in Carroll County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Carroll County?

The bars show when commuters in Carroll 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
3.1%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
16.3%
6:30-6:59 AM
14.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
17.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Carroll County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 11.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 58.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.7%) 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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 Carroll County Mississippi United States
2009 7:25 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:29 AM 7:21 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:26 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:17 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:20 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:01 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:05 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:10 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:05 AM 7:19 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:03 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:09 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:06 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:13 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:08 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:13 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:12 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Carroll County were on the road by 7:12 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Carroll County now leave 26 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 Carroll County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Carroll County's commute time compare?

Metric Carroll County Mississippi US Average
Avg. Commute Time 26.6 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 7.5% 5.9% 15.0%
Walked 0.7% 1.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Carroll County is 26.6 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Carroll County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Carroll County, MS is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 9,686 residents against a local median of 17,526. Carroll County, MS's work from home, at 7.5%, runs 113% above the 3.5% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 26.6 min against a local median of 21.1 min, 26% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 26% above the local median it puts Carroll County, MS at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves sit within 1.9% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Carroll County, MS, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Carroll County, MS has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Carroll County, MS 9,686 26.6 min #5/6 7.5% #1/6 7:12 AM #4/6
Montgomery County, MS 9,602 21.1 min 4.6% 7:08 AM
Grenada County, MS 21,217 15.5 min 3.5% 7:16 AM
Holmes County, MS 16,191 32.5 min 2.7% 7:04 AM
Leflore County, MS 27,141 15.2 min 2.9% 7:26 AM
Attala County, MS 17,526 21.9 min 3.6% 7:10 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Carroll County, Mississippi.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 222 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,868 at a typical national wage. That's 24% more than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Carroll County, Mississippi. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Carroll 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.

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).