Chickasaw County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Chickasaw County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chickasaw County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Chickasaw County holds about 0.6% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Chickasaw County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,087 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)
Chickasaw County	20.2 min	40.4 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,218	494
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 20.2 minutes to get to work in Chickasaw County. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 72% of counties in Mississippi

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 4.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chickasaw County

• Car: 89.3%
• Walked: 4.2% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 4.2%
• Other: 2.2%
• 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 Chickasaw County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

Walking is unusually common in Chickasaw County: 3.1 times more than the Mississippi average (4.2% vs 1.3%).

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Chickasaw County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chickasaw 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.3%	1.9%	2.9%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	94.2%	2.5%	2.4%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.8%	2.1%	2.2%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.3%	2.6%	2.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.6%	1.6%	1.7%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.9%	1.7%	1.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.1%	1.5%	2.2%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.9%	1.5%	1.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.3%	1.3%	1.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	96.2%	0.8%	2.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	96.2%	0.6%	2.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.5%	3.7%	2.6%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.8%	3.6%	2.5%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.9%	3.5%	2.5%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.2%	4.1%	4.1%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.3%	4.2%	4.2%	2.2%	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 2017 at 96.3% and lowest in 2023 at 89.2%. Overall it fell from 93.3% in 2009 to 89.3% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points.

Walking gained the most ground in Chickasaw County: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 4.2% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Chickasaw County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chickasaw County?

The bars show when commuters in Chickasaw 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 Chickasaw County7.5% Mississippi6.6%	7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Chickasaw County5.1% Mississippi4.5%	5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Chickasaw County5.9% Mississippi5.3%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Chickasaw County11.2% Mississippi11.1%	11.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Chickasaw County14.1% Mississippi12.4%	14.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Chickasaw County19.1% Mississippi17.1%	19.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Chickasaw County11.3% Mississippi12.6%	11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Chickasaw County5.2% Mississippi8.2%	5.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Chickasaw County3.1% Mississippi3.0%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Chickasaw County5.2% Mississippi4.0%	5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Chickasaw County1.3% Mississippi2.1%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Chickasaw County0.2% Mississippi0.8%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Chickasaw County5.2% Mississippi5.8%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Chickasaw County5.5% Mississippi6.4%	5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chickasaw County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 18.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush looks much like Mississippi's: 49.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.5%) 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 Chickasaw 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 Chickasaw 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 Chickasaw 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Chickasaw County	Mississippi	United States
2009	6:50 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:53 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:57 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:57 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:58 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:58 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:55 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:56 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:51 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:48 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:49 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:57 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:57 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	7:10 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chickasaw County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 20 minutes later than in 2009 (6:50 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Chickasaw County now leave 28 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 Chickasaw County has moved 21 minutes later.

How does Chickasaw County's commute time compare?

Metric	Chickasaw County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.2 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.2%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	4.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chickasaw County is 20.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 4.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau