Lafayette County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lafayette County, 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 Lafayette County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lafayette County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 135 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 5.4 minutes.

Lafayette County holds about 2.0% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lafayette County would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,669 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)
Lafayette County	16.2 min	32.3 min	135 hrs/yr	$4,173	738
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.

Commute Time Map: Mississippi Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Mississippi

Sharkey County (11.9 min)
Coahoma County (13.2 min)
Leflore County (15.2 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Mississippi

Wilkinson County (36.8 min)
Tate County (32.8 min)
Greene County (32.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Lafayette County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.2 minutes to get to work in Lafayette County. That's 28% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 90% 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 8.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lafayette County

Public transit is unusually common in Lafayette County: 3.3 times more than the Mississippi average (0.9% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lafayette County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lafayette 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.

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	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	90.7%	3.5%	3.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	91.1%	3.4%	3.1%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%
2011	91.7%	3.5%	2.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%
2012	91.7%	3.6%	2.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2013	92.8%	3.5%	2.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	92.5%	3.2%	2.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	92.2%	2.9%	2.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%
2016	92.5%	3.4%	2.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.7%	0.1%
2017	92.2%	3.4%	1.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.9%	0.1%
2018	91.5%	3.7%	2.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%
2019	92.3%	3.3%	2.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.2%	1.0%	0.1%
2020	91.2%	5.0%	2.0%	0.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	90.0%	5.2%	2.6%	0.2%	1.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	89.7%	5.5%	3.0%	0.3%	1.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	88.5%	6.6%	3.1%	0.5%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	86.2%	8.6%	3.0%	1.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 92.8%. Overall it fell from 90.7% in 2009 to 86.2% in 2024, down 4.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lafayette County: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 8.6% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.8% to 3.0% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Lafayette County

Night OwlThe 2nd-latest start among Mississippi's 82 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 7:43 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lafayette County?

The bars show when commuters in Lafayette 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		3.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lafayette County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 8.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 53.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.5%) 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 Lafayette 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 Lafayette 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 Lafayette 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lafayette County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:50 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:49 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:47 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:52 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:48 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:48 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:45 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:48 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:48 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:46 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:48 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:43 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lafayette County were on the road by 7:43 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:50 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Lafayette County now leave 5 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Lafayette County has moved 5 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Lafayette County in the whole series.

How does Lafayette County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lafayette County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.2 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	8.6%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.0%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lafayette County is 16.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 3.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lafayette County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Lafayette County, MS is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 58,327 residents against a local median of 31,525. Lafayette County, MS's work from home, at 8.6%, runs 115% above the 4.0% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 16.2 min against a local median of 28.0 min, 42% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 42% below the local median it puts Lafayette County, MS at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.4% on work from home, so Lafayette County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Lafayette County, MS has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lafayette County, MS	58,327	16.2 min #1/6	8.6% #1/6	7:43 AM #6/6
Yalobusha County, MS	12,419	28.0 min	7.9%	7:20 AM
Marshall County, MS	33,979	30.7 min	3.5%	6:56 AM
Calhoun County, MS	12,852	23.5 min	4.0%	6:37 AM
Panola County, MS	32,808	30.2 min	4.6%	7:04 AM
Pontotoc County, MS	31,525	23.7 min	2.5%	6:56 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lafayette County, Mississippi.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Lafayette County, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 135 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,173 at a typical national wage. That's 25% less than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Lafayette County, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Lafayette County, 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Lafayette County, Mississippi?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 0.9% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Mississippi, making it a realistic option for many workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Mississippi?

Among counties in Mississippi, the shortest average commutes are in Sharkey County (11.9 min), Coahoma County (13.2 min), Leflore County (15.2 min). The longest are in Wilkinson County (36.8 min), Tate County (32.8 min), Greene County (32.7 min).