Lincoln County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lincoln County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lincoln County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 176 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Lincoln County holds about 1.2% of Mississippi's population and accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lincoln County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,184 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)
Lincoln County	21.1 min	42.3 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,459	666
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

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On average, it takes 21.1 minutes to get to work in Lincoln County. That's 6% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lincoln County

• Car: 94.0%
• Worked at Home: 3.0%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 1.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.2% unusually high
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Lincoln County: 3.8 times more than the Mississippi average (0.2% vs 0.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Lincoln County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lincoln 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Taxi
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi	Public Transportation	Bicycle
2009	94.8%	2.7%	1.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.1%	2.0%	1.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	95.5%	2.5%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	95.1%	2.3%	0.8%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	94.2%	3.4%	0.7%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	94.8%	2.5%	0.7%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	95.1%	2.7%	1.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.3%	2.5%	0.9%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.5%	2.8%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.6%	1.8%	0.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2019	95.7%	2.1%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2020	94.8%	3.0%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	94.7%	3.3%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	93.9%	3.0%	1.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	93.6%	3.0%	1.6%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.0%	3.0%	1.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2019 at 95.7% and lowest in 2023 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 94.8% in 2009 to 94.0% in 2024, down 0.8 percentage points.

Commute Start Times in Lincoln County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lincoln County?

The bars show when commuters in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County8.0% Mississippi6.6%	8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lincoln County5.0% Mississippi4.5%	5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lincoln County6.5% Mississippi5.3%	6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lincoln County10.7% Mississippi11.1%	10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lincoln County13.0% Mississippi12.4%	13.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lincoln County24.1% Mississippi17.1%	24.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lincoln County12.5% Mississippi12.6%	12.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lincoln County7.4% Mississippi8.2%	7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lincoln County1.7% Mississippi3.0%	1.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lincoln County3.3% Mississippi4.0%	3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lincoln County1.2% Mississippi2.1%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lincoln County0.6% Mississippi0.8%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lincoln County3.6% Mississippi5.8%	3.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lincoln County2.4% Mississippi6.4%	2.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lincoln County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 24.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 19.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 57.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.2%) 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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.

• Lincoln County
• Mississippi
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lincoln County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:06 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:05 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:02 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:06 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:06 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:09 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lincoln County were on the road by 7:09 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Mississippi, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Lincoln County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lincoln County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.1 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.0%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lincoln County is 21.1 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau