Ridgeland Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Ridgeland, 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 Ridgeland: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ridgeland spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.7 minutes.

Ridgeland holds about 0.8% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Ridgeland would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,945 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)
Ridgeland	18.8 min	37.6 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,862	2,851
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.

Ridgeland Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.8 minutes to get to work in Ridgeland. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ridgeland

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Ridgeland: 4.6 times more than the Mississippi average (0.2% vs 0.1%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Ridgeland, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

Commute Mode Trends in Ridgeland, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ridgeland 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	96.0%	3.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	95.6%	3.3%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	95.0%	3.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	95.0%	3.1%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	96.0%	2.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.9%	2.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.0%	2.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.1%	2.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	96.8%	1.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	96.0%	1.9%	1.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	94.3%	3.1%	0.9%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	94.7%	3.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	93.7%	4.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.2%	6.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.2%	7.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.1%	9.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	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 2017 at 96.8%. Overall it fell from 96.0% in 2009 to 89.1% in 2024, down 6.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ridgeland: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 9.4% in 2024, up 6.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Ridgeland

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ridgeland?

The bars show when commuters in Ridgeland 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		3.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		20.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ridgeland is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 8.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 59.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.0%) 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 Ridgeland, 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 Ridgeland 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 Ridgeland 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	Ridgeland	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:50 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:49 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ridgeland were on the road by 7:29 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Ridgeland now leave 9 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 Ridgeland has moved 20 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Ridgeland in the whole series.

How does Ridgeland's commute time compare?

Metric	Ridgeland	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.8 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.4%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ridgeland is 18.8 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Ridgeland, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Ridgeland, MS is the 3rd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 22,132 residents against a local median of 26,778. Nothing separates Ridgeland, MS sharply from the cities around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 8% above the local median at 9.4% against 8.7%. Ridgeland, MS has the 2nd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Ridgeland, MS	22,132	18.8 min #1/4	9.4% #2/4	7:29 AM #2/4
Madison, MS	21,023	21.2 min	15.3%	7:44 AM
Jackson, MS	145,698	19.0 min	8.7%	7:39 AM
Pearl, MS	26,778	20.1 min	6.2%	7:14 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Ridgeland, Mississippi.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Ridgeland, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 157 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,862 at a typical national wage. That's 13% less than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Ridgeland, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.