Sharkey County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Sharkey County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sharkey County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 99 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 45% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 9.6 minutes.

Sharkey County holds about 0.1% of Mississippi's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sharkey County would save about 40 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,230 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)
Sharkey County	11.9 min	23.8 min	99 hrs/yr	$3,075	269
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 11.9 minutes to get to work in Sharkey County. That's 47% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by biking. About 1.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sharkey County

• Car: 90.4%
• Bicycle: 3.6% unusually high
• Other: 2.7%
• Worked at Home: 1.9% unusually low
• Walked: 1.3%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Sharkey County: 4.0 times less than the Mississippi average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Sharkey County: 3.1 times less than the Mississippi average (1.9% vs 5.9%).

Biking is unusually common in Sharkey County: 44.0 times more than the Mississippi average (3.6% vs 0.1%).

Sharkey County stands out for active commuting: 4.9% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.4 times the Mississippi average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Sharkey County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sharkey 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	Bicycle	Other	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	86.9%	0.0%	0.0%	2.3%	10.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	87.5%	0.0%	0.0%	2.5%	8.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%	5.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.9%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.2%	0.0%	0.0%	2.1%	1.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%	1.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	1.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%	2.7%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	96.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%	1.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	96.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	2.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.4%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	2.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.5%	4.2%	0.0%	1.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.9%	3.0%	0.0%	1.5%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.5%	2.1%	2.7%	2.0%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.4%	3.6%	2.7%	1.9%	1.3%	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 2014 at 96.7%. Overall it rose from 86.9% in 2009 to 90.4% in 2024, up 3.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Biking gained the most ground in Sharkey County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 3.6% in 2024, up 3.6 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 10.0% to 1.3% of workers (down 8.7 percentage points).

Biking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 2.2% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 0.1%.

Commute Start Times in Sharkey County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sharkey County?

The bars show when commuters in Sharkey 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 Sharkey County2.9% Mississippi6.6%	2.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Sharkey County12.7% Mississippi4.5%	12.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Sharkey County2.3% Mississippi5.3%	2.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Sharkey County11.5% Mississippi11.1%	11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Sharkey County12.7% Mississippi12.4%	12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Sharkey County19.4% Mississippi17.1%	19.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Sharkey County10.5% Mississippi12.6%	10.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Sharkey County16.8% Mississippi8.2%	16.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Sharkey County1.3% Mississippi3.0%	1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Sharkey County1.8% Mississippi4.0%	1.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Sharkey County1.6% Mississippi2.1%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Sharkey County1.7% Mississippi0.8%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Sharkey County2.5% Mississippi5.8%	2.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Sharkey County2.4% Mississippi6.4%	2.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sharkey County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 17.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 59.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 10 commuters (9.9%) 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 Sharkey 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 Sharkey 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 Sharkey 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	Sharkey County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:57 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:12 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sharkey County were on the road by 7:12 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:10 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Sharkey County now leave 26 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 Sharkey County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Sharkey County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sharkey County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.9 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	1.9%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sharkey County is 11.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau