Panola County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Panola County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Panola County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 252 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 8.7 minutes.

Panola County holds about 1.1% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 1.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Panola County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,121 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)
Panola County	30.2 min	60.4 min	252 hrs/yr	$7,803	435
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 30.2 minutes to get to work in Panola County. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 81% of counties in Mississippi

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Panola County

• Car: 94.1%
• Worked at Home: 4.6%
• Walked: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Other: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Panola County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Panola 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
• Public Transportation
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• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	96.9%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	96.5%	1.5%	0.4%	0.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	96.1%	1.5%	0.6%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	95.1%	2.2%	0.7%	0.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.4%	3.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.4%	4.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.8%	4.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	3.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.6%	3.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	96.3%	2.4%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	96.3%	2.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.2%	4.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.3%	5.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.4%	4.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.1%	4.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%	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 2010 at 96.9% and lowest in 2022 at 93.3%. Overall it fell from 96.7% in 2009 to 94.1% in 2024, down 2.6 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Panola County: its share of workers rose from 1.0% in 2009 to 4.6% in 2024, up 3.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home peaked at 5.8% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 4.6%.

Commute Start Times in Panola County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Panola County?

The bars show when commuters in Panola 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 Panola County4.7% Mississippi6.6%	4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Panola County10.2% Mississippi4.5%	10.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Panola County6.5% Mississippi5.3%	6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Panola County15.2% Mississippi11.1%	15.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Panola County11.4% Mississippi12.4%	11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Panola County15.7% Mississippi17.1%	15.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Panola County10.5% Mississippi12.6%	10.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Panola County4.2% Mississippi8.2%	4.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Panola County5.0% Mississippi3.0%	5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Panola County3.9% Mississippi4.0%	3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Panola County1.6% Mississippi2.1%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Panola County0.4% Mississippi0.8%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Panola County5.2% Mississippi5.8%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Panola County5.5% Mississippi6.4%	5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Panola County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 21.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 41.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.6%) 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 Panola 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 Panola 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 Panola 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	Panola County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:07 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:01 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:59 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:01 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:05 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:07 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:12 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:04 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Panola County were on the road by 7:04 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:09 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Panola County now leave 34 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Panola County's commute time compare?

Metric	Panola County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.2 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.6%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Panola County is 30.2 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau