Pearl River County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Pearl River County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pearl River County spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 236 hours, about 9.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 6.8 minutes.

Pearl River County holds about 2.0% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 2.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pearl River County would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,929 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)
Pearl River County	28.3 min	56.7 min	236 hrs/yr	$7,323	731
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 28.3 minutes to get to work in Pearl River County. That's 26% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 79% of counties in Mississippi

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pearl River County

• Car: 87.7%
• Worked at Home: 8.8%
• Other: 1.9%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Pearl River County: 10.3 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pearl River County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pearl River 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
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.5%	3.4%	1.3%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	92.6%	3.6%	1.4%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.6%	4.0%	1.0%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	92.2%	3.8%	1.0%	2.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	93.0%	3.0%	1.0%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	94.3%	2.5%	1.0%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	95.4%	2.1%	1.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	95.3%	1.9%	1.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	94.6%	2.6%	1.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.8%	3.5%	1.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.0%	3.6%	1.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.9%	3.6%	2.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.9%	4.5%	2.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.1%	6.7%	2.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.6%	7.5%	2.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.7%	8.8%	1.9%	1.6%	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 peaked in 2015 at 95.4%. Overall it fell from 93.5% in 2009 to 87.7% in 2024, down 5.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pearl River County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 8.8% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Pearl River County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pearl River County?

The bars show when commuters in Pearl River 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 Pearl River County12.2% Mississippi6.6%	12.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Pearl River County8.7% Mississippi4.5%	8.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Pearl River County6.8% Mississippi5.3%	6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Pearl River County10.9% Mississippi11.1%	10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Pearl River County11.3% Mississippi12.4%	11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Pearl River County11.0% Mississippi17.1%	11.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Pearl River County10.1% Mississippi12.6%	10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Pearl River County6.7% Mississippi8.2%	6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Pearl River County2.5% Mississippi3.0%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Pearl River County4.3% Mississippi4.0%	4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Pearl River County2.9% Mississippi2.1%	2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Pearl River County0.8% Mississippi0.8%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Pearl River County6.0% Mississippi5.8%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Pearl River County5.9% Mississippi6.4%	5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pearl River County is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 12.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.6% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 27.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 39.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 Pearl River 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 Pearl River 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 Pearl River 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
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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Pearl River County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:07 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:58 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:03 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:03 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:04 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:07 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:07 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:05 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:55 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:00 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pearl River County were on the road by 7:00 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:08 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Pearl River County now leave 38 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 Pearl River County has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Pearl River County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pearl River County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.3 min	21.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 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	8.8%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pearl River County is 28.3 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau