Lawrence County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lawrence County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lawrence County spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 225 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.

Lawrence County holds about 0.4% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lawrence County would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,794 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)
Lawrence County	27.0 min	54.1 min	225 hrs/yr	$6,985	282
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 27.0 minutes to get to work in Lawrence County. That's 21% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 72% of counties in Mississippi

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by other means. About 1.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lawrence County

• Car: 97.2%
• Other: 1.6%
• Worked at Home: 1.0% unusually low
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Lawrence County: 6.0 times less than the Mississippi average (0.2% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Lawrence County, versus 0.3% in Mississippi.

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Lawrence County: 6.0 times less than the Mississippi average (1.0% vs 5.9%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Lawrence County: just 0.2%, 6.4 times below the Mississippi average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Lawrence County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lawrence 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	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.1%	1.8%	3.0%	4.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.9%	1.8%	2.6%	4.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	90.4%	2.0%	3.9%	3.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.1%	2.3%	3.0%	4.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.3%	1.8%	4.2%	2.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.2%	1.6%	4.3%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.5%	1.8%	3.4%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.5%	1.4%	4.3%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.6%	1.4%	4.6%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.2%	1.0%	4.8%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.5%	1.3%	3.2%	1.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.2%	1.4%	3.0%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	96.1%	1.2%	1.0%	0.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.6%	2.5%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	97.4%	2.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	97.2%	1.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	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 2023 at 97.4%. Overall it rose from 90.1% in 2009 to 97.2% in 2024, up 7.1 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.9% to 0.2% of workers (down 4.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 4.8% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 1.0%.

Commute Start Times in Lawrence County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lawrence County?

The bars show when commuters in Lawrence 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 Lawrence County10.7% Mississippi6.6%	10.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lawrence County4.1% Mississippi4.5%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lawrence County7.8% Mississippi5.3%	7.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lawrence County9.8% Mississippi11.1%	9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lawrence County8.9% Mississippi12.4%	8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lawrence County17.9% Mississippi17.1%	17.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lawrence County9.1% Mississippi12.6%	9.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lawrence County4.9% Mississippi8.2%	4.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lawrence County7.8% Mississippi3.0%	7.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lawrence County2.0% Mississippi4.0%	2.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lawrence County0.6% Mississippi2.1%	0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lawrence County1.6% Mississippi0.8%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lawrence County8.5% Mississippi5.8%	8.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lawrence County6.2% Mississippi6.4%	6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lawrence County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 22.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 40.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.0%) 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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	Lawrence County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:03 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:57 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:55 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:57 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:06 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:59 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:04 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:04 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:04 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:07 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lawrence County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (7:02 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Lawrence County now leave 23 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 Lawrence County has moved 15 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Lawrence County in the whole series.

How does Lawrence County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lawrence County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.0 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	1.0%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lawrence County is 27.0 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau