Rankin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Rankin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rankin 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 195 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Rankin County holds about 5.4% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 5.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Rankin County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,416 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)
Rankin County	23.4 min	46.8 min	195 hrs/yr	$6,040	1,699
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 23.4 minutes to get to work in Rankin County. That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 7.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rankin County

• Car: 90.5%
• Worked at Home: 7.1%
• Walked: 1.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.6%
• Other: 0.5%
• Bicycle: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Rankin County: 3.2 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Rankin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rankin 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
• Walked
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• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	95.6%	2.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	95.4%	2.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	95.6%	2.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	95.8%	2.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	95.8%	2.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	95.8%	2.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	96.3%	2.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	96.2%	2.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	96.1%	2.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	96.3%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	96.0%	2.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	94.3%	3.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	93.2%	4.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	92.5%	5.4%	1.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	91.3%	6.4%	1.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	90.5%	7.1%	1.3%	0.6%	0.5%	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 peaked in 2015 at 96.3%. Overall it fell from 95.6% in 2009 to 90.5% in 2024, down 5.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Rankin County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 7.1% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Rankin County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rankin County?

The bars show when commuters in Rankin 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 Rankin County3.8% Mississippi6.6%	3.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Rankin County2.5% Mississippi4.5%	2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Rankin County4.2% Mississippi5.3%	4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Rankin County10.9% Mississippi11.1%	10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Rankin County14.0% Mississippi12.4%	14.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Rankin County23.3% Mississippi17.1%	23.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Rankin County13.2% Mississippi12.6%	13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Rankin County9.4% Mississippi8.2%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Rankin County2.8% Mississippi3.0%	2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Rankin County3.4% Mississippi4.0%	3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Rankin County2.1% Mississippi2.1%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Rankin County0.4% Mississippi0.8%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Rankin County4.7% Mississippi5.8%	4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Rankin County5.4% Mississippi6.4%	5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rankin County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 10.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 59.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.9%) 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 Rankin 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 Rankin 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 Rankin 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Rankin County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rankin County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). Mississippi followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Rankin County now leave 19 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Rankin County's commute time compare?

Metric	Rankin County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.4 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	7.1%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Rankin County is 23.4 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau