Leflore County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Leflore County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Leflore County spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 127 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 6.3 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Leflore County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,569 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)
Leflore County	15.2 min	30.4 min	127 hrs/yr	$3,923	409
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 15.2 minutes to get to work in Leflore County. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest 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 walking. About 2.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Leflore County

• Car: 92.3%
• Walked: 3.1%
• Worked at Home: 2.9%
• Other: 1.6%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Leflore County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Leflore 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	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.5%	2.6%	2.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	93.9%	2.5%	1.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	93.4%	3.1%	2.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	94.6%	2.2%	1.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.4%	2.0%	1.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	95.8%	2.0%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	96.4%	1.3%	1.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	95.5%	1.5%	2.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	94.3%	2.2%	2.5%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	94.6%	1.5%	2.9%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	94.7%	1.0%	3.4%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.0%	0.7%	3.4%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	95.1%	0.9%	3.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.4%	1.2%	3.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.3%	2.2%	3.8%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.3%	3.1%	2.9%	1.6%	0.1%	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 2015 at 96.4%. Overall it fell from 93.5% in 2009 to 92.3% in 2024, down 1.2 percentage points.

Walking gained the most ground in Leflore County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 3.1% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Leflore County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Leflore County?

The bars show when commuters in Leflore 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 Leflore County4.2% Mississippi6.6%	4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Leflore County2.4% Mississippi4.5%	2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Leflore County2.2% Mississippi5.3%	2.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Leflore County9.3% Mississippi11.1%	9.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Leflore County11.4% Mississippi12.4%	11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Leflore County24.0% Mississippi17.1%	24.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Leflore County14.8% Mississippi12.6%	14.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Leflore County10.8% Mississippi8.2%	10.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Leflore County2.3% Mississippi3.0%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Leflore County5.6% Mississippi4.0%	5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Leflore County2.7% Mississippi2.1%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Leflore County1.5% Mississippi0.8%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Leflore County5.2% Mississippi5.8%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Leflore County3.5% Mississippi6.4%	3.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Leflore County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 24.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 8.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 61.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.5%) 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 Leflore 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 Leflore 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 Leflore 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	Leflore County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Leflore County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). Mississippi followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Leflore County now leave 12 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 Leflore County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Leflore County's commute time compare?

Metric	Leflore County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.2 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	2.9%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.1%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Leflore County is 15.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 3.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau