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Commuting in Leake 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 Leake County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Leake County spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 221 hours, about 9.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Leake County holds about 0.7% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Leake County would save about 89 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,744 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)
Leake County 26.6 min 53.1 min 221 hrs/yr $6,860 457
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
  1. Sharkey County (11.9 min)
  2. Coahoma County (13.2 min)
  3. Leflore County (15.2 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Mississippi
  1. Wilkinson County (36.8 min)
  2. Tate County (32.8 min)
  3. Greene County (32.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Leake County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 26.6 minutes to get to work in Leake County. That's 18% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Leake County

  • Car: 88.4%
  • Worked at Home: 5.9%
  • Other: 2.9%
  • Walked: 1.6%
  • Public Transportation: 1.2% unusually high
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually common in Leake County: 4.5 times more than the Mississippi average (1.2% vs 0.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Leake County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Leake 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 93.4% 3.1% 1.6% 1.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1%
2010 95.2% 2.7% 0.9% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1%
2011 94.4% 3.0% 1.1% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.6% 0.1%
2012 94.7% 0.7% 0.8% 1.5% 1.8% 0.0% 0.4% 0.2%
2013 95.8% 0.9% 0.9% 1.4% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 94.9% 1.3% 0.8% 1.9% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 95.1% 1.2% 0.5% 2.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 94.4% 1.7% 0.9% 2.1% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 95.9% 1.7% 0.8% 1.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 95.1% 1.7% 0.9% 2.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 95.3% 1.7% 1.4% 1.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2020 94.5% 2.6% 1.1% 1.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2021 93.1% 3.1% 1.6% 1.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2022 91.7% 5.0% 1.2% 1.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2023 89.7% 4.9% 2.8% 1.2% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2024 88.4% 5.9% 2.9% 1.6% 1.2% 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 2017 at 95.9%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 88.4% in 2024, down 5.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Leake County: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 5.9% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Leake County

  • Sleeping InThe highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among Mississippi's 82 counties: 27.3% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Leake County?

The bars show when commuters in Leake 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
7.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
15.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
14.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
17.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
5.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
4.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
0.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
1.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM
16.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Leake County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 15.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 42.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.3%) 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 Leake 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 Leake 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 Leake 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 Leake County Mississippi United States
2009 7:11 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:08 AM 7:21 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:08 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2012 6:59 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2013 6:59 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2014 6:59 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:03 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:06 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:14 AM 7:19 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:14 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:15 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:09 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:07 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:10 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:08 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:09 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Leake County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:11 AM). Mississippi followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Leake County now leave 29 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 Leake County has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Leake County's commute time compare?

Metric Leake County Mississippi US Average
Avg. Commute Time 26.6 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 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 5.9% 5.9% 15.0%
Walked 1.6% 1.3% 2.4%
Public Transit 1.2% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Leake County is 26.6 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

1.2% 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

Leake County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Leake County, MS is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 21,319 residents against a local median of 27,718. Where Leake County, MS breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 64% above the local median of 3.6% at 5.9%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 26.6 min against a local median of 21.9 min, 21% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 21% above the local median it puts Leake County, MS at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 7.0% on work from home, so Leake County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Leake County, MS has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Leake County, MS 21,319 26.6 min #5/6 5.9% #2/6 7:09 AM #3/6
Attala County, MS 17,526 21.9 min 3.6% 7:10 AM
Scott County, MS 27,718 21.9 min 3.9% 7:09 AM
Neshoba County, MS 28,932 20.0 min 2.6% 7:23 AM
Madison County, MS 111,640 21.8 min 9.6% 7:27 AM
Newton County, MS 21,093 28.1 min 3.2% 6:56 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Leake County, Mississippi.

Is commuting expensive in Leake County, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 221 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,860 at a typical national wage. That's 23% more than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Leake County, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Leake County, Mississippi. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Leake County, Mississippi?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 1.2% 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).