Monroe County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Monroe 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 Monroe County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Monroe County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 188 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.

Monroe County holds about 1.1% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Monroe County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,328 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)
Monroe County	22.5 min	45.1 min	188 hrs/yr	$5,821	525
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

Sharkey County (11.9 min)
Coahoma County (13.2 min)
Leflore County (15.2 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Mississippi

Wilkinson County (36.8 min)
Tate County (32.8 min)
Greene County (32.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Monroe County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.5 minutes to get to work in Monroe County. That's 1% longer 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 5.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Monroe County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Monroe County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Monroe 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.4%	1.6%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	96.4%	1.3%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	96.6%	1.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	96.8%	0.7%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	96.5%	1.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	96.5%	1.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	97.0%	1.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	97.4%	1.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.6%	3.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.4%	4.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.4%	5.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.3%	6.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.4%	6.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.0%	6.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.1%	6.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.3%	5.4%	1.5%	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 2016 at 97.4% and lowest in 2023 at 92.1%. Overall it fell from 95.4% in 2009 to 92.3% in 2024, down 3.1 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Monroe County: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 5.4% in 2024, up 3.8 percentage points.

Working from home peaked at 6.8% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 5.4%.

Commute Start Times in Monroe County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Monroe County?

The bars show when commuters in Monroe 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		4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		14.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		19.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		0.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Monroe County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 18.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 56.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.8%) 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 Monroe 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 Monroe 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 Monroe 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	Monroe County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:07 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:05 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:04 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Monroe County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:05 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Monroe 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 Monroe County has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Monroe County's commute time compare?

Metric	Monroe County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.5 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	5.4%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Monroe County is 22.5 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Monroe County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Monroe County, MS is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 33,747 residents against a local median of 24,036. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest counties, which makes Monroe County, MS an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 9% above the local median at 22.5 min against 20.6 min. Monroe County, MS has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Monroe County, MS	33,747	22.5 min #5/6	5.4% #4/6	7:14 AM #4/6
Clay County, MS	18,383	20.6 min	5.6%	7:22 AM
Lamar County, AL	13,693	22.3 min	5.8%	7:00 AM
Itawamba County, MS	24,036	25.1 min	6.1%	7:06 AM
Lowndes County, MS	57,838	18.1 min	5.1%	7:21 AM
Lee County, MS	83,034	18.4 min	5.4%	7:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Monroe County, Mississippi.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 188 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,821 at a typical national wage. That's 5% more than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Monroe County, Mississippi?

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

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).