Jackson Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Jackson, 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 Jackson: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jackson spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 158 hours, about 6.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Jackson holds about 4.9% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 4.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jackson would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,960 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)
Jackson	19.0 min	37.9 min	158 hrs/yr	$4,900	2,353
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.

Jackson Commute Map

On average, it takes 19.0 minutes to get to work in Jackson. That's 15% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jackson

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Jackson: 3.9 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Jackson, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jackson 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	93.7%	2.5%	1.7%	0.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	93.5%	2.7%	1.7%	0.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	93.0%	3.0%	1.6%	0.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	93.4%	3.2%	1.4%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	93.8%	2.7%	1.3%	0.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	93.7%	2.5%	1.4%	0.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	93.8%	2.4%	1.5%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	94.4%	2.0%	1.5%	0.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	1.9%	1.8%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	94.9%	2.0%	1.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.7%	2.3%	1.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	93.5%	3.6%	1.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	92.5%	4.8%	1.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	91.0%	6.2%	1.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	89.6%	7.8%	1.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	88.1%	8.7%	2.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	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 94.9%. Overall it fell from 93.7% in 2009 to 88.1% in 2024, down 5.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Jackson: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 8.7% in 2024, up 6.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Jackson

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jackson?

The bars show when commuters in Jackson 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		4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jackson is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 11.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush looks much like Mississippi's: 48.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.0%) 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 Jackson, 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 Jackson 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 Jackson 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	Jackson	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 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	7:37 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jackson were on the road by 7:39 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:35 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Jackson now leave 1 minute later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Jackson's commute time compare?

Metric	Jackson	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	19.0 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.7%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jackson is 19.0 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 2.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Jackson, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Jackson, MS is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 145,698 residents against a local median of 24,318. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Jackson, MS an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 6% below the local median at 19.0 min against 20.1 min. Jackson, MS has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Jackson, MS	145,698	19.0 min #2/4	8.7% #2/4	7:39 AM #3/4
Ridgeland, MS	22,132	18.8 min	9.4%	7:29 AM
Pearl, MS	26,778	20.1 min	6.2%	7:14 AM
Clinton, MS	24,318	23.0 min	8.3%	7:39 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Jackson, Mississippi.

Is living in Jackson, Mississippi good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 158 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,900 at a typical national wage. That's 12% less than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Jackson, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Jackson, Mississippi. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.