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Lowndes County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lowndes 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 Lowndes County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lowndes County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 3.4 minutes.

Lowndes County holds about 2.0% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 1.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lowndes County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,868 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)
Lowndes County 18.1 min 36.2 min 151 hrs/yr $4,670 1,081
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

Lowndes County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.1 minutes to get to work in Lowndes County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 81% of 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 working from home. About 5.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lowndes County

  • Car: 93.0%
  • Worked at Home: 5.1%
  • Walked: 1.3%
  • Other: 0.5%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Lowndes County: 18.2 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lowndes County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lowndes 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 Walked Other Motorcycle Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi
2009 95.4% 1.4% 1.8% 0.8% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
2010 95.1% 1.3% 2.0% 0.5% 0.3% 0.1% 0.4% 0.2%
2011 94.7% 1.5% 2.4% 0.5% 0.4% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2%
2012 94.7% 1.8% 2.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1%
2013 95.1% 1.7% 1.7% 0.6% 0.3% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1%
2014 95.7% 1.4% 1.3% 0.8% 0.4% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
2015 96.0% 1.7% 0.9% 0.8% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
2016 95.1% 2.3% 0.8% 1.1% 0.3% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1%
2017 94.9% 2.8% 0.7% 0.9% 0.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1%
2018 94.4% 3.4% 0.7% 0.8% 0.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1%
2019 93.2% 4.6% 1.1% 0.6% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2020 92.9% 4.5% 1.1% 1.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2021 92.7% 5.0% 1.3% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 92.5% 5.0% 1.2% 1.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 93.0% 5.1% 1.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 93.0% 5.1% 1.3% 0.5% 0.1% 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 2015 at 96.0% and lowest in 2022 at 92.5%. Overall it fell from 95.4% in 2009 to 93.0% in 2024, down 2.4 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lowndes County: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 5.1% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 1.3% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2014 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Lowndes County

  • Rush-Hour RegularsThe 3rd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Mississippi's 82 counties: 61.3% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lowndes County?

The bars show when commuters in Lowndes 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
4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
21.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
19.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lowndes County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 13.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 61.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.8%) 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 Lowndes 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 Lowndes 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 Lowndes 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 Lowndes County Mississippi United States
2009 7:25 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:26 AM 7:21 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:23 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:24 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:23 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:24 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:22 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:23 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:22 AM 7:19 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:21 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:22 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:22 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:24 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:23 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:23 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:21 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lowndes County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). Mississippi followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Lowndes County now leave 17 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Lowndes County in the whole series.

How does Lowndes County's commute time compare?

Metric Lowndes County Mississippi US Average
Avg. Commute Time 18.1 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 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 5.1% 5.9% 15.0%
Walked 1.3% 1.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Lowndes County is 18.1 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lowndes County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Lowndes County, MS is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 57,838 residents against a local median of 18,721. Lowndes 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 one-way commute, 12% below the local median at 18.1 min against 20.6 min. Lowndes County, MS has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Lowndes County, MS 57,838 18.1 min #2/6 5.1% #4/6 7:21 AM #4/6
Noxubee County, MS 10,025 20.4 min 2.9% 7:04 AM
Clay County, MS 18,383 20.6 min 5.6% 7:22 AM
Pickens County, AL 18,721 32.5 min 5.0% 6:38 AM
Monroe County, MS 33,747 22.5 min 5.4% 7:14 AM
Oktibbeha County, MS 51,791 17.1 min 7.4% 7:44 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lowndes County, Mississippi.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Lowndes County, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 151 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,670 at a typical national wage. That's 16% less than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Lowndes County, Mississippi?

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

Do people use public transit in Lowndes County, Mississippi?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Mississippi, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Mississippi have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).