Jones County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Jones County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jones County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Jones County holds about 2.3% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 2.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jones County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,925 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)
Jones County	18.6 min	37.3 min	155 hrs/yr	$4,813	662
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 18.6 minutes to get to work in Jones County. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 78% of counties in Mississippi

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 4.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jones County

• Car: 93.0%
• Worked at Home: 4.4%
• Walked: 1.3%
• Other: 1.0%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Biking is unusually rare in Jones County: 3.7 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Jones County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jones 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.6%	2.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.0%	2.9%	1.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.6%	2.9%	1.2%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	95.2%	2.6%	0.9%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	95.1%	2.0%	1.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	95.3%	1.5%	1.3%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	95.7%	1.4%	1.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	95.6%	1.3%	1.2%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	94.8%	1.2%	1.5%	2.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	95.2%	1.1%	1.4%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	95.3%	1.0%	1.6%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	95.0%	1.1%	1.4%	2.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	95.6%	1.2%	1.6%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	94.8%	2.4%	1.3%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	93.9%	3.2%	1.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	93.0%	4.4%	1.3%	1.0%	0.3%	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 2015 at 95.7%. Overall it fell from 95.6% in 2009 to 93.0% in 2024, down 2.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Jones County: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 4.4% in 2024, up 1.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Jones County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jones County?

The bars show when commuters in Jones 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 Jones County6.5% Mississippi6.6%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Jones County4.2% Mississippi4.5%	4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Jones County7.3% Mississippi5.3%	7.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Jones County13.6% Mississippi11.1%	13.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Jones County10.6% Mississippi12.4%	10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Jones County18.0% Mississippi17.1%	18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Jones County16.3% Mississippi12.6%	16.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Jones County7.6% Mississippi8.2%	7.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Jones County1.9% Mississippi3.0%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Jones County2.6% Mississippi4.0%	2.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Jones County0.7% Mississippi2.1%	0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Jones County0.1% Mississippi0.8%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Jones County4.7% Mississippi5.8%	4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Jones County5.9% Mississippi6.4%	5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jones County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 18.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 52.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.0%) 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 Jones 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 Jones 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 Jones 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	Jones County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:11 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jones County were on the road by 7:13 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Mississippi, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Jones County now leave 25 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Jones County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jones County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.6 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.4%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jones County is 18.6 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Mississippi. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau