Scott County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Scott County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Scott County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 182 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Scott County holds about 0.9% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Scott County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,260 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)
Scott County	21.9 min	43.7 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,650	468
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 21.9 minutes to get to work in Scott County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Scott County

• Car: 93.6%
• Worked at Home: 3.9%
• Other: 1.7%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Scott County: 3.1 times less than the Mississippi average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Scott County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Scott 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
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.3%	1.3%	1.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	96.7%	1.0%	1.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	96.3%	1.2%	1.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	95.6%	1.6%	1.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	94.7%	2.1%	1.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.2%	2.2%	0.6%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.0%	2.3%	0.8%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.7%	2.7%	1.1%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.4%	1.6%	0.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	96.1%	1.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.8%	1.3%	0.7%	0.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	93.2%	2.7%	1.4%	1.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.5%	3.7%	2.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	90.6%	3.4%	2.5%	2.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	91.7%	3.9%	1.8%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.6%	3.9%	1.7%	0.7%	0.1%	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 2010 at 96.7% and lowest in 2022 at 90.6%. Overall it fell from 96.3% in 2009 to 93.6% in 2024, down 2.7 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Scott County: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 3.9% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.3% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.

Commute Start Times in Scott County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Scott County?

The bars show when commuters in Scott 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 Scott County10.1% Mississippi6.6%	10.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Scott County3.3% Mississippi4.5%	3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Scott County5.3% Mississippi5.3%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Scott County14.0% Mississippi11.1%	14.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Scott County12.3% Mississippi12.4%	12.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Scott County16.6% Mississippi17.1%	16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Scott County9.0% Mississippi12.6%	9.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Scott County6.9% Mississippi8.2%	6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Scott County0.3% Mississippi3.0%	0.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Scott County3.5% Mississippi4.0%	3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Scott County1.2% Mississippi2.1%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Scott County0.2% Mississippi0.8%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Scott County6.4% Mississippi5.8%	6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Scott County10.7% Mississippi6.4%	10.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Scott County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 18.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 44.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.1%) 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 Scott 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 Scott 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 Scott 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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• Mississippi
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Scott County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:07 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:08 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Scott County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:17 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Scott County now leave 29 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 Scott County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Scott County's commute time compare?

Metric	Scott County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.9 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.9%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Scott County is about the same as in Mississippi.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau