DeSoto County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in DeSoto County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in DeSoto County spend about 50 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 209 hours, about 8.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

DeSoto County holds about 6.5% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 7.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in DeSoto County would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,593 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)
DeSoto County	25.1 min	50.2 min	209 hrs/yr	$6,483	2,216
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 25.1 minutes to get to work in DeSoto County. That's 12% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 working from home. About 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in DeSoto County

• Car: 90.4%
• Worked at Home: 8.2%
• Other: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in DeSoto County: 7.4 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in DeSoto County: 3.4 times less than the Mississippi average (0.4% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in DeSoto County: 5.4 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in DeSoto County: just 0.4%, 3.6 times below the Mississippi average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in DeSoto County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in DeSoto 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	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.3%	2.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	96.0%	2.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	95.8%	2.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	95.4%	3.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	95.7%	3.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	95.8%	2.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	96.0%	2.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	96.4%	2.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	96.7%	2.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	96.6%	2.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	96.1%	3.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.9%	3.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.2%	4.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.9%	5.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.1%	7.4%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.4%	8.2%	0.9%	0.4%	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 peaked in 2017 at 96.7%. Overall it fell from 96.3% in 2009 to 90.4% in 2024, down 5.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in DeSoto County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2024, up 6.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in DeSoto County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in DeSoto County?

The bars show when commuters in DeSoto 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 DeSoto County6.7% Mississippi6.6%	6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM DeSoto County4.3% Mississippi4.5%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM DeSoto County5.3% Mississippi5.3%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM DeSoto County10.1% Mississippi11.1%	10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM DeSoto County12.6% Mississippi12.4%	12.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM DeSoto County17.7% Mississippi17.1%	17.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM DeSoto County12.0% Mississippi12.6%	12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM DeSoto County8.2% Mississippi8.2%	8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM DeSoto County3.5% Mississippi3.0%	3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM DeSoto County3.5% Mississippi4.0%	3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM DeSoto County1.7% Mississippi2.1%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM DeSoto County1.5% Mississippi0.8%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM DeSoto County6.1% Mississippi5.8%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM DeSoto County7.0% Mississippi6.4%	7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in DeSoto County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are about as common as in Mississippi: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush looks much like Mississippi's: 50.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 DeSoto 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 DeSoto 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 DeSoto 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	DeSoto 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	7:29 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in DeSoto County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 11 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 DeSoto County now leave 19 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 DeSoto County has moved 5 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for DeSoto County in the whole series.

How does DeSoto County's commute time compare?

Metric	DeSoto County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.1 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	8.2%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in DeSoto County is 25.1 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau