Horn Lake Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Horn Lake: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Horn Lake spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 214 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 4.1 minutes.

Horn Lake holds about 0.8% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Horn Lake would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,648 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)
Horn Lake	25.6 min	51.2 min	214 hrs/yr	$6,620	3,521
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.

Horn Lake Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.6 minutes to get to work in Horn Lake. That's 14% 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 6.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Horn Lake

• Car: 92.7%
• Worked at Home: 6.1%
• Other: 1.0%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Horn Lake: 6.8 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Horn Lake: 34.7 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Horn Lake, versus 0.3% in Mississippi.

Biking is essentially absent in Horn Lake, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

Few people walk or bike to work in Horn Lake: just 0.0%, 36.8 times below the Mississippi average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Horn Lake, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Horn Lake 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Taxi
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle
• Walked

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Walked
2009	96.5%	1.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	96.1%	1.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	95.9%	2.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	95.1%	2.7%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	95.7%	2.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	96.2%	2.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	97.3%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	97.4%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	98.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	98.4%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	98.1%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	98.1%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	97.0%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	95.9%	3.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	94.4%	4.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	92.7%	6.1%	1.0%	0.2%	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 peaked in 2018 at 98.4%. Overall it fell from 96.5% in 2009 to 92.7% in 2024, down 3.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Horn Lake: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 6.1% in 2024, up 4.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Horn Lake

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Horn Lake?

The bars show when commuters in Horn Lake 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 Horn Lake7.4% Mississippi6.6%	7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Horn Lake6.6% Mississippi4.5%	6.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Horn Lake5.6% Mississippi5.3%	5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Horn Lake8.7% Mississippi11.1%	8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Horn Lake12.7% Mississippi12.4%	12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Horn Lake16.6% Mississippi17.1%	16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Horn Lake7.8% Mississippi12.6%	7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Horn Lake6.9% Mississippi8.2%	6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Horn Lake3.1% Mississippi3.0%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Horn Lake2.3% Mississippi4.0%	2.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Horn Lake1.6% Mississippi2.1%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Horn Lake4.5% Mississippi0.8%	4.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Horn Lake10.4% Mississippi5.8%	10.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Horn Lake6.0% Mississippi6.4%	6.0%

Horn Lake Mississippi Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Horn Lake is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 19.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 44.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.7%) 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 Horn Lake, 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 Horn Lake 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 Horn Lake 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.

• Horn Lake
• Mississippi
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Horn Lake	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:22 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Horn Lake were on the road by 7:17 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Horn Lake now leave 21 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 Horn Lake has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Horn Lake in the whole series.

How does Horn Lake's commute time compare?

Metric	Horn Lake	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.6 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.1%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Horn Lake is 25.6 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau