Covington County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Covington County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Covington 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.

Covington 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 Covington 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)
Covington County	21.9 min	43.8 min	183 hrs/yr	$5,663	714
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 21.9 minutes to get to work in Covington County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Covington County

• Car: 89.2%
• Worked at Home: 5.8%
• Other: 2.3%
• Public Transportation: 1.6% unusually high
• Walked: 1.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually common in Covington County: 6.0 times more than the Mississippi average (1.6% vs 0.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Covington County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Covington 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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• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.9%	1.2%	1.2%	1.1%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	95.0%	1.1%	1.3%	0.6%	1.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	95.2%	1.5%	0.9%	0.2%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.2%	1.4%	2.2%	0.3%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.8%	1.0%	1.3%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.7%	0.8%	1.5%	0.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.6%	0.4%	1.4%	0.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.0%	0.5%	1.9%	0.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.6%	0.8%	1.2%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	96.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	97.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	96.3%	1.3%	0.4%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	95.9%	1.1%	1.0%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.6%	1.8%	1.1%	1.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.5%	3.9%	1.8%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.2%	5.8%	2.3%	1.6%	1.2%	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 2019 at 97.5%. Overall it fell from 94.9% in 2009 to 89.2% in 2024, down 5.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Covington County: its share of workers rose from 1.2% in 2009 to 5.8% in 2024, up 4.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Covington County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Covington County?

The bars show when commuters in Covington 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 Covington County4.8% Mississippi6.6%	4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Covington County4.7% Mississippi4.5%	4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Covington County8.6% Mississippi5.3%	8.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Covington County20.5% Mississippi11.1%	20.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Covington County6.2% Mississippi12.4%	6.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Covington County19.5% Mississippi17.1%	19.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Covington County14.6% Mississippi12.6%	14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Covington County4.6% Mississippi8.2%	4.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Covington County1.1% Mississippi3.0%	1.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Covington County3.4% Mississippi4.0%	3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Covington County0.4% Mississippi2.1%	0.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Covington County0.0% Mississippi0.8%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Covington County4.2% Mississippi5.8%	4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Covington County7.3% Mississippi6.4%	7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Covington County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 20.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 18.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 44.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (15.3%) 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 Covington 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 Covington 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 Covington 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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• Mississippi
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Covington County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:11 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:53 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:54 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:53 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:52 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:00 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:03 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:11 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:08 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:59 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:03 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:08 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Covington County were on the road by 7:08 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Mississippi, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Covington County now leave 30 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Covington County's commute time compare?

Metric	Covington County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.9 min	21.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.8%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.6%	0.3%	3.2%

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

1.6% 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