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Marion County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Marion 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 Marion County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Marion County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 183 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Marion County holds about 0.8% of Mississippi's population and accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Marion County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,269 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)
Marion County 22.0 min 43.9 min 183 hrs/yr $5,673 325
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

Marion County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.0 minutes to get to work in Marion County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Marion County

  • Car: 93.3%
  • Worked at Home: 5.2%
  • Walked: 1.2%
  • Other: 0.4%
  • 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 Marion County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Marion County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Marion 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 Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 91.6% 2.8% 3.2% 1.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2010 92.1% 2.9% 2.8% 1.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2011 92.0% 3.5% 3.0% 0.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2012 92.3% 3.3% 2.3% 1.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1%
2013 90.9% 3.8% 2.4% 2.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2014 89.8% 4.9% 1.0% 4.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2015 90.1% 4.2% 1.1% 4.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2016 91.2% 3.4% 0.8% 4.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2017 90.8% 3.7% 0.6% 4.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 92.8% 2.0% 0.5% 4.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 92.4% 1.8% 0.4% 4.6% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2020 92.7% 2.3% 1.0% 3.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 92.6% 2.8% 0.7% 3.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 94.1% 2.4% 0.6% 2.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 92.2% 6.0% 0.9% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 93.3% 5.2% 1.2% 0.4% 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 was highest in 2022 at 94.1% and lowest in 2014 at 89.8%. Overall it rose from 91.6% in 2009 to 93.3% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Marion County: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 5.2% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 1.2% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Marion County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Marion County?

The bars show when commuters in Marion 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
9.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM
16.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
15.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
2.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Marion County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Mississippi. Early starts are about as common as in Mississippi: 16.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 55.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.3%) 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 Marion 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 Marion 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 Marion 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 Marion County Mississippi United States
2009 7:14 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:14 AM 7:21 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:17 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:15 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:09 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:07 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:12 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:10 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:11 AM 7:19 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:10 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:08 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:08 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:03 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:06 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:13 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:15 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Marion County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:14 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Marion 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 Marion County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Marion County's commute time compare?

Metric Marion County Mississippi US Average
Avg. Commute Time 22.0 min 21.5 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 5.2% 5.9% 15.0%
Walked 1.2% 1.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Marion County is about the same as in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Marion County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Marion County, MS is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 24,193 residents against a local median of 13,839. The measure that sets Marion County, MS apart most is one-way commute: 22.0 min, 19% below the local median of 27.0 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 9.5 min on one-way commute, so Marion County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Marion 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
Marion County, MS 24,193 22.0 min #2/6 5.2% #3/6 7:15 AM #5/6
Walthall County, MS 13,839 30.1 min 5.8% 6:50 AM
Lamar County, MS 65,698 21.6 min 5.4% 7:23 AM
Jefferson Davis County, MS 11,117 31.1 min 4.7% 6:43 AM
Lawrence County, MS 11,784 27.0 min 1.0% 7:14 AM
Washington Parish, LA 45,116 22.8 min 4.2% 7:03 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Marion County, Mississippi.

Is commuting expensive in Marion County, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 183 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,673 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Marion County, Mississippi. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Marion 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).