Perry County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Perry County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Perry County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 214 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 4.2 minutes.

Perry County holds about 0.4% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Perry County would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,658 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)
Perry County	25.7 min	51.4 min	214 hrs/yr	$6,644	510
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 25.7 minutes to get to work in Perry County. That's 15% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 other means. About 1.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Perry County

• Car: 92.1%
• Other: 3.0%
• Walked: 1.9%
• Worked at Home: 1.5% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 1.4% unusually high
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually common in Perry County: 5.4 times more than the Mississippi average (1.4% vs 0.3%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Perry County: 4.0 times less than the Mississippi average (1.5% vs 5.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Perry County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Perry 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Other	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.1%	0.2%	1.7%	1.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2010	93.5%	0.6%	2.0%	2.0%	0.8%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2011	94.9%	0.6%	1.3%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2012	95.7%	0.6%	1.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2013	96.2%	1.6%	0.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	94.7%	3.4%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	94.8%	3.4%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	93.0%	4.6%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	90.4%	6.4%	1.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.3%	5.9%	1.8%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.6%	5.3%	1.1%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.8%	6.2%	0.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.0%	7.4%	0.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.3%	5.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.3%	4.8%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.1%	3.0%	1.9%	1.5%	1.4%	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 2013 at 96.2% and lowest in 2018 at 90.3%. Overall it fell from 95.1% in 2009 to 92.1% in 2024, down 3.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Public transit gained the most ground in Perry County: its share of workers rose from 0.7% in 2009 to 1.4% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Perry County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Perry County?

The bars show when commuters in Perry 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 Perry County8.3% Mississippi6.6%	8.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Perry County10.8% Mississippi4.5%	10.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Perry County5.5% Mississippi5.3%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Perry County13.3% Mississippi11.1%	13.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Perry County11.2% Mississippi12.4%	11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Perry County17.6% Mississippi17.1%	17.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Perry County10.5% Mississippi12.6%	10.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Perry County4.5% Mississippi8.2%	4.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Perry County0.3% Mississippi3.0%	0.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Perry County1.1% Mississippi4.0%	1.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Perry County0.0% Mississippi2.1%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Perry County0.2% Mississippi0.8%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Perry County4.1% Mississippi5.8%	4.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Perry County12.8% Mississippi6.4%	12.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Perry County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 24.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 43.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.2%) 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 Perry 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 Perry 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 Perry 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Perry County	Mississippi	United States
2009	6:44 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:45 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:45 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:47 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:47 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:47 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:56 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:57 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:51 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:40 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:34 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:35 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:49 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:00 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:02 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Perry County were on the road by 7:02 AM, 18 minutes later than in 2009 (6:44 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Perry County now leave 36 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 Perry County has moved 28 minutes later.

How does Perry County's commute time compare?

Metric	Perry County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.7 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	1.5%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Perry County is 25.7 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

1.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau