Simpson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Simpson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Simpson County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 190 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Simpson County holds about 0.9% of Mississippi's population and accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Simpson County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,354 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)
Simpson County	22.8 min	45.6 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,884	380
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.

Commute Time Map: Mississippi Counties

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On average, it takes 22.8 minutes to get to work in Simpson County. That's 2% longer 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 3.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Simpson County

• Car: 91.2%
• Worked at Home: 3.2%
• Other: 2.5%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Public Transportation: 1.4% unusually high
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually common in Simpson County: 5.4 times more than the Mississippi average (1.4% vs 0.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Simpson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Simpson 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.4%	2.5%	1.8%	1.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.4%	2.2%	2.0%	2.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	90.9%	2.4%	2.5%	3.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.7%	2.1%	2.2%	3.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.6%	1.6%	2.1%	3.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.4%	1.9%	2.1%	3.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.1%	1.4%	2.5%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.6%	1.5%	1.3%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.1%	0.9%	1.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	97.1%	0.6%	1.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.0%	1.9%	1.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.6%	2.3%	1.7%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.5%	2.5%	2.7%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.3%	3.3%	2.6%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.5%	3.6%	2.2%	2.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.2%	3.2%	2.5%	1.6%	1.4%	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 2018 at 97.1% and lowest in 2023 at 90.5%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 91.2% in 2024, down 2.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Simpson County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 3.2% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 3.6% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 1.6%.

Commute Start Times in Simpson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Simpson County?

The bars show when commuters in Simpson 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 Simpson County9.7% Mississippi6.6%	9.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Simpson County4.0% Mississippi4.5%	4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Simpson County9.6% Mississippi5.3%	9.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Simpson County13.6% Mississippi11.1%	13.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Simpson County12.3% Mississippi12.4%	12.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Simpson County15.5% Mississippi17.1%	15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Simpson County8.8% Mississippi12.6%	8.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Simpson County5.1% Mississippi8.2%	5.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Simpson County2.1% Mississippi3.0%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Simpson County2.3% Mississippi4.0%	2.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Simpson County1.2% Mississippi2.1%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Simpson County0.4% Mississippi0.8%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Simpson County8.2% Mississippi5.8%	8.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Simpson County7.2% Mississippi6.4%	7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Simpson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 23.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 41.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.4%) 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 Simpson 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 Simpson 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 Simpson 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	Simpson County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:06 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:59 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:04 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:02 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:02 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Simpson County were on the road by 7:02 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:06 AM). Mississippi followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Simpson 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 Simpson County has moved 16 minutes earlier.

How does Simpson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Simpson County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.8 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.2%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Simpson County is 22.8 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

1.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau