Quitman County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Quitman County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Quitman County spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 231 hours, about 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 6.3 minutes.

Quitman County holds about 0.2% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Quitman County would save about 93 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,870 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)
Quitman County	27.8 min	55.5 min	231 hrs/yr	$7,174	368
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 27.8 minutes to get to work in Quitman County. That's 24% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 73% of counties in Mississippi

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Quitman County

• Car: 91.7%
• Worked at Home: 7.2%
• Other: 0.5%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Quitman County: 3.6 times more than the Mississippi average (0.2% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Quitman County: 3.9 times less than the Mississippi average (0.3% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Quitman County, versus 0.3% in Mississippi.

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Quitman County: just 0.3%, 4.1 times below the Mississippi average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Quitman County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Quitman 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	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.4%	1.3%	0.8%	4.6%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.4%	0.9%	0.3%	4.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.7%	0.7%	0.1%	4.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.7%	1.1%	0.0%	3.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.4%	1.7%	0.0%	2.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.7%	2.4%	0.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.2%	2.5%	0.1%	2.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.5%	2.7%	0.2%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.3%	3.3%	0.5%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.1%	2.5%	0.7%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.7%	3.6%	1.2%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.2%	4.2%	0.8%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.8%	4.7%	1.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.6%	3.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.2%	6.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.7%	7.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	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 2012 at 95.7%. Overall it fell from 92.4% in 2009 to 91.7% in 2024, down 0.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Quitman County: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 7.2% in 2024, up 5.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.6% to 0.3% of workers (down 4.3 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 Quitman County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Quitman County?

The bars show when commuters in Quitman 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 Quitman County4.9% Mississippi6.6%	4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Quitman County6.4% Mississippi4.5%	6.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Quitman County6.7% Mississippi5.3%	6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Quitman County17.3% Mississippi11.1%	17.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Quitman County13.6% Mississippi12.4%	13.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Quitman County15.9% Mississippi17.1%	15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Quitman County12.5% Mississippi12.6%	12.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Quitman County5.8% Mississippi8.2%	5.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Quitman County0.2% Mississippi3.0%	0.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Quitman County1.0% Mississippi4.0%	1.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Quitman County3.5% Mississippi2.1%	3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Quitman County0.9% Mississippi0.8%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Quitman County4.1% Mississippi5.8%	4.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Quitman County7.1% Mississippi6.4%	7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Quitman County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 17.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% 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: 48.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.5%) 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 Quitman 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 Quitman 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 Quitman 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	Quitman County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:07 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:02 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Quitman County were on the road by 7:02 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Quitman 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 Quitman County has moved 9 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Quitman County in the whole series.

How does Quitman County's commute time compare?

Metric	Quitman County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.8 min	21.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.2%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Quitman County is 27.8 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau