Newton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Newton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Newton County spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 234 hours, about 9.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 6.6 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Newton County would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,904 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)
Newton County	28.1 min	56.2 min	234 hrs/yr	$7,259	591
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 28.1 minutes to get to work in Newton County. That's 25% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 77% of counties in Mississippi

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Newton County

• Car: 93.0%
• Worked at Home: 3.2%
• Walked: 2.5%
• Other: 1.3%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Newton County: 3.5 times less than the Mississippi average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Newton County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Newton 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
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.7%	2.1%	1.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	94.0%	1.9%	3.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	94.6%	2.1%	2.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	93.8%	2.2%	2.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	93.4%	2.7%	2.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	94.1%	2.6%	2.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.2%	2.6%	1.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.7%	2.4%	2.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.4%	1.9%	1.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.4%	1.6%	1.0%	2.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.8%	1.8%	1.1%	3.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.3%	1.8%	2.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.9%	1.8%	3.9%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.8%	1.4%	3.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.4%	2.1%	2.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.0%	3.2%	2.5%	1.3%	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 was highest in 2017 at 95.4% and lowest in 2021 at 92.9%. Overall it fell from 94.7% in 2009 to 93.0% in 2024, down 1.7 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Newton County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 3.2% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 3.9% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 2.5%.

Commute Start Times in Newton County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Newton County?

The bars show when commuters in Newton 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 Newton County5.5% Mississippi6.6%	5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Newton County6.1% Mississippi4.5%	6.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Newton County8.5% Mississippi5.3%	8.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Newton County18.7% Mississippi11.1%	18.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Newton County12.8% Mississippi12.4%	12.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Newton County15.2% Mississippi17.1%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Newton County11.9% Mississippi12.6%	11.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Newton County6.7% Mississippi8.2%	6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Newton County1.5% Mississippi3.0%	1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Newton County2.0% Mississippi4.0%	2.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Newton County0.5% Mississippi2.1%	0.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Newton County0.5% Mississippi0.8%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Newton County3.7% Mississippi5.8%	3.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Newton County6.4% Mississippi6.4%	6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Newton County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 18.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 20.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 46.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.2%) 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 Newton 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 Newton 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 Newton 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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• Mississippi
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Newton County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:10 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:11 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:10 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	7:02 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:58 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:56 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Newton County were on the road by 6:56 AM, 21 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:17 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Newton County now leave 41 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 Newton County has moved 14 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Newton County in the whole series.

How does Newton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Newton County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.1 min	21.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	3.2%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Newton County is 28.1 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 2.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau