Lamar County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lamar 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 Lamar County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lamar County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 180 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way.

Lamar County holds about 2.2% of Mississippi's population and accounts for roughly 2.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lamar County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,231 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)
Lamar County	21.6 min	43.2 min	180 hrs/yr	$5,577	887
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

Lamar County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.6 minutes to get to work in Lamar County. That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lamar County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Lamar County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lamar 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.6%	3.5%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	94.4%	3.5%	0.8%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	94.4%	3.8%	0.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	93.6%	4.0%	0.8%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	93.4%	3.2%	1.5%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	93.7%	2.3%	2.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	92.7%	2.0%	3.6%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	92.8%	1.7%	4.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	91.3%	1.6%	5.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	91.9%	2.1%	4.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	90.7%	2.4%	5.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	92.4%	2.2%	4.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	91.7%	2.6%	4.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	92.2%	3.0%	3.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.7%	5.1%	4.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.6%	5.4%	2.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2023 at 89.7%. Overall it fell from 94.6% in 2009 to 90.6% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lamar County: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 5.4% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Lamar County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lamar County?

The bars show when commuters in Lamar 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		7.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lamar County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across Mississippi. Early starts are about as common as in Mississippi: 17.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 52.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.5%) 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 Lamar 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 Lamar 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 Lamar 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	Lamar County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lamar County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Lamar County now leave 15 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 Lamar County has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Lamar County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lamar County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.6 min	21.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.4%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lamar County is about the same as in Mississippi.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lamar County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Lamar County, MS is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 65,698 residents against a local median of 24,193. Lamar County, MS sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 4% above the local median at 5.4% against 5.2%. Lamar County, MS has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lamar County, MS	65,698	21.6 min #2/6	5.4% #3/6	7:23 AM #5/6
Forrest County, MS	78,271	17.2 min	4.0%	7:33 AM
Marion County, MS	24,193	22.0 min	5.2%	7:15 AM
Covington County, MS	18,148	21.9 min	5.8%	7:08 AM
Pearl River County, MS	57,458	28.3 min	8.8%	7:00 AM
Jefferson Davis County, MS	11,117	31.1 min	4.7%	6:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lamar County, Mississippi.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 180 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,577 at a typical national wage.

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

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

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).