Pike County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pike 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 Pike County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pike County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 144 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 4.3 minutes.

Pike County holds about 1.3% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pike County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,781 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)
Pike County	17.2 min	34.5 min	144 hrs/yr	$4,451	573
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

Pike County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.2 minutes to get to work in Pike County. That's 23% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 84% of counties in Mississippi

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 3.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pike County

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

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Pike County: 11.0 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Pike County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pike 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.5%	2.3%	3.0%	2.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.9%	3.0%	3.5%	2.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.6%	2.1%	4.0%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.3%	2.3%	3.9%	1.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	89.6%	2.7%	4.6%	1.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	89.5%	2.6%	5.1%	1.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	90.4%	1.8%	4.6%	1.5%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	91.2%	1.7%	3.7%	1.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	92.6%	1.4%	3.6%	1.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	93.7%	1.3%	3.1%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	95.7%	1.3%	1.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.2%	1.3%	2.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.4%	2.4%	3.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.1%	2.8%	2.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.1%	2.7%	2.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.9%	3.5%	2.1%	1.0%	0.4%	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 2019 at 95.7% and lowest in 2014 at 89.5%. Overall it rose from 91.5% in 2009 to 92.9% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pike County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 3.5% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.0% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Pike County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pike County?

The bars show when commuters in Pike 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		11.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		14.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pike County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 22.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush looks much like Mississippi's: 48.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.3%) 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 Pike 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 Pike 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 Pike 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	Pike County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pike County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 20 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:30 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Pike County now leave 28 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 Pike County has moved 13 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Pike County in the whole series.

How does Pike County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pike County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.2 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.5%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pike County is 17.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pike County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Pike County, MS is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 39,602 residents against a local median of 12,565. Where Pike County, MS breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 38% below the local median of 27.9 min at 17.2 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 11.3 min on one-way commute, so Pike County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Pike County, MS has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pike County, MS	39,602	17.2 min #1/6	3.5% #3/6	7:10 AM #5/6
Walthall County, MS	13,839	30.1 min	5.8%	6:50 AM
Lincoln County, MS	34,879	21.1 min	3.0%	7:08 AM
Amite County, MS	12,565	27.9 min	6.9%	7:09 AM
St. Helena Parish, LA	10,858	32.4 min	2.0%	6:33 AM
Lawrence County, MS	11,784	27.0 min	1.0%	7:14 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pike County, Mississippi.

Is living in Pike County, Mississippi good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 144 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,451 at a typical national wage. That's 20% less than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Pike County, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pike 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.

How do commute times compare across 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).