Pontotoc County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Pontotoc County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pontotoc County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 198 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Pontotoc County holds about 1.1% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pontotoc County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,454 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)
Pontotoc County	23.7 min	47.5 min	198 hrs/yr	$6,134	813
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 23.7 minutes to get to work in Pontotoc County. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 2.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pontotoc County

• Car: 96.4%
• Worked at Home: 2.5%
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Pontotoc County: 30.7 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Pontotoc County: 3.0 times less than the Mississippi average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Pontotoc County: 10.4 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Pontotoc County: 5.6 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Pontotoc County: just 0.1%, 24.4 times below the Mississippi average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Pontotoc County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pontotoc 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	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Walked
2009	97.0%	1.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	1.0%
2010	96.1%	1.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	1.3%
2011	95.8%	2.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.7%
2012	94.5%	3.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	94.7%	3.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%
2014	95.6%	2.3%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	95.6%	2.1%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%
2016	95.9%	1.9%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	96.6%	0.6%	2.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2018	95.8%	0.8%	2.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2019	97.2%	0.6%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2020	96.8%	0.9%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2021	97.3%	1.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2022	97.2%	1.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	96.8%	1.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2024	96.4%	2.5%	0.9%	0.1%	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 was highest in 2021 at 97.3% and lowest in 2012 at 94.5%. Overall it fell from 97.0% in 2009 to 96.4% in 2024, down 0.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pontotoc County: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 2.5% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Pontotoc County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pontotoc County?

The bars show when commuters in Pontotoc 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 Pontotoc County6.7% Mississippi6.6%	6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Pontotoc County5.6% Mississippi4.5%	5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Pontotoc County5.8% Mississippi5.3%	5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Pontotoc County15.8% Mississippi11.1%	15.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Pontotoc County18.5% Mississippi12.4%	18.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Pontotoc County12.0% Mississippi17.1%	12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Pontotoc County12.6% Mississippi12.6%	12.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Pontotoc County5.3% Mississippi8.2%	5.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Pontotoc County2.2% Mississippi3.0%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Pontotoc County2.0% Mississippi4.0%	2.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Pontotoc County2.1% Mississippi2.1%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Pontotoc County0.0% Mississippi0.8%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Pontotoc County5.2% Mississippi5.8%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Pontotoc County6.2% Mississippi6.4%	6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pontotoc County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 18.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 18.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 48.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.5%) 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 Pontotoc 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 Pontotoc 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 Pontotoc 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	Pontotoc County	Mississippi	United States
2009	6:57 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:58 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:01 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:02 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:59 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:56 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:51 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:51 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:59 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:56 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pontotoc County were on the road by 6:56 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (6:57 AM). Mississippi followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Pontotoc County now leave 42 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 Pontotoc County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Pontotoc County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pontotoc County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.7 min	21.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	2.5%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pontotoc County is 23.7 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau