Kemper County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Kemper County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kemper County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 258 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 44% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 9.4 minutes.

Kemper County holds about 0.3% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kemper County would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,193 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)
Kemper County	30.9 min	61.8 min	258 hrs/yr	$7,983	360
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 30.9 minutes to get to work in Kemper County. That's 38% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 90% of counties in Mississippi

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by other means. About 0.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kemper County

• Car: 94.3%
• Other: 1.8%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Public Transportation: 1.3% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 0.8% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually common in Kemper County: 5.1 times more than the Mississippi average (1.3% vs 0.3%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Kemper County: 7.4 times less than the Mississippi average (0.8% vs 5.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Kemper County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kemper 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.2%	1.6%	0.4%	1.6%	2.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.4%	3.0%	0.5%	1.8%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.8%	2.8%	0.2%	1.5%	3.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.3%	2.5%	0.3%	1.2%	3.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.3%	0.7%	1.3%	0.7%	4.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.1%	0.6%	1.3%	0.0%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.1%	0.9%	1.9%	0.0%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.2%	3.1%	2.2%	0.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.6%	3.1%	2.6%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.7%	3.6%	1.9%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.1%	3.0%	1.6%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.2%	4.5%	1.5%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.6%	3.9%	1.1%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.7%	3.5%	0.1%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.0%	3.6%	1.0%	0.0%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.3%	1.8%	1.6%	1.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2022 at 94.7% and lowest in 2011 at 91.8%. Overall it rose from 93.2% in 2009 to 94.3% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Kemper County: its share of workers rose from 0.4% in 2009 to 1.6% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 0.8% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 2.6% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 1.6%.

Commute Start Times in Kemper County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kemper County?

The bars show when commuters in Kemper 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 Kemper County7.7% Mississippi6.6%	7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Kemper County3.2% Mississippi4.5%	3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Kemper County1.9% Mississippi5.3%	1.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Kemper County20.1% Mississippi11.1%	20.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Kemper County16.7% Mississippi12.4%	16.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Kemper County15.6% Mississippi17.1%	15.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Kemper County8.8% Mississippi12.6%	8.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Kemper County4.7% Mississippi8.2%	4.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Kemper County1.8% Mississippi3.0%	1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Kemper County5.1% Mississippi4.0%	5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Kemper County0.0% Mississippi2.1%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Kemper County0.1% Mississippi0.8%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Kemper County5.9% Mississippi5.8%	5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Kemper County8.5% Mississippi6.4%	8.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kemper County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 20.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 12.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 45.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.6%) 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 Kemper 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 Kemper 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 Kemper 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	Kemper County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:12 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:01 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:56 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:47 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:56 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:56 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:01 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kemper County were on the road by 7:01 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:10 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Kemper County now leave 37 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 Kemper County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Kemper County's commute time compare?

Metric	Kemper County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.9 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	0.8%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kemper County is 30.9 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

1.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau