Coahoma County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Coahoma 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 Coahoma County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Coahoma County spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 110 hours, about 4.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 38% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 8.3 minutes.

Coahoma County holds about 0.7% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Coahoma County would save about 44 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,369 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)
Coahoma County	13.2 min	26.5 min	110 hrs/yr	$3,422	346
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

Coahoma County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 13.2 minutes to get to work in Coahoma County. That's 41% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest counties in Mississippi

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 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Coahoma County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Coahoma County: 9.0 times more than the Mississippi average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Coahoma County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Coahoma 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	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Other
2009	91.7%	2.3%	2.2%	0.0%	2.1%	0.0%	1.1%	0.7%
2010	91.8%	3.3%	2.1%	0.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2011	90.7%	3.8%	1.9%	0.0%	2.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.4%
2012	90.4%	3.5%	2.7%	0.0%	2.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.6%
2013	92.8%	3.1%	1.6%	0.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.6%
2014	93.1%	2.4%	1.9%	0.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.6%
2015	93.2%	2.2%	2.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.8%	0.6%
2016	92.7%	1.7%	3.2%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.9%
2017	93.1%	1.7%	3.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.7%
2018	92.9%	2.1%	3.8%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	90.7%	3.6%	4.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	90.8%	3.4%	4.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	90.6%	6.5%	2.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.3%	7.4%	2.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.2%	9.7%	1.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	89.7%	8.0%	1.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2015 at 93.2% and lowest in 2023 at 88.2%. Overall it fell from 91.7% in 2009 to 89.7% in 2024, down 2.0 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Coahoma County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 8.0% in 2024, up 5.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 4.7% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 1.2%.

Commute Start Times in Coahoma County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Coahoma County?

The bars show when commuters in Coahoma 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		2.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		13.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Coahoma County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 10.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 48.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.1%) 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 Coahoma 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 Coahoma 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 Coahoma 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	Coahoma County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Coahoma County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Coahoma County now leave 16 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 Coahoma County has moved 11 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Coahoma County in the whole series.

How does Coahoma County's commute time compare?

Metric	Coahoma County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.2 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.0%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Coahoma County is 13.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Coahoma County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Coahoma County, MS is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 20,540 residents against a local median of 11,764. The measure that sets Coahoma County, MS apart most is work from home: 8.0%, 97% above the local median of 4.1%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 13.2 min against a local median of 23.3 min, 43% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 43% below the local median it puts Coahoma County, MS at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 6.2% on work from home, so Coahoma County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Coahoma County, MS has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Coahoma County, MS	20,540	13.2 min #2/6	8.0% #1/6	7:22 AM #3/6
Quitman County, MS	5,774	27.8 min	7.2%	7:02 AM
Phillips County, AR	15,415	13.2 min	4.1%	7:25 AM
Tunica County, MS	9,475	26.6 min	1.1%	7:24 AM
Tallahatchie County, MS	11,764	23.3 min	6.4%	6:55 AM
Bolivar County, MS	29,520	15.9 min	2.4%	7:22 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Coahoma County, Mississippi.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 110 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,422 at a typical national wage. That's 38% less than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Coahoma County, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Coahoma 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 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).