Stone County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Stone County, 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 Stone County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stone County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 260 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 45% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 9.7 minutes.

Stone County holds about 0.6% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Stone County would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,223 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)
Stone County	31.2 min	62.4 min	260 hrs/yr	$8,057	543
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Mississippi

Sharkey County (11.9 min)
Coahoma County (13.2 min)
Leflore County (15.2 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Mississippi

Wilkinson County (36.8 min)
Tate County (32.8 min)
Greene County (32.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Stone County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 31.2 minutes to get to work in Stone County. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 94% of counties in Mississippi

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 walking. About 3.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Stone County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Stone County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Stone 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.

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	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.6%	1.4%	3.3%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.4%	1.5%	3.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.7%	1.8%	3.3%	1.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.6%	1.8%	2.1%	2.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.0%	1.5%	1.8%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.0%	2.9%	1.4%	1.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.8%	3.3%	1.9%	1.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.5%	2.0%	1.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	90.5%	2.1%	1.3%	5.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.9%	2.0%	1.1%	5.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.9%	0.8%	0.8%	5.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.7%	2.0%	0.4%	3.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.5%	2.6%	2.4%	2.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.5%	2.1%	2.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.0%	3.3%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.0%	3.6%	3.3%	0.8%	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 was highest in 2013 at 95.0% and lowest in 2017 at 90.5%. Overall it fell from 93.6% in 2009 to 92.0% in 2024, down 1.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Stone County: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 3.6% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Stone County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Stone County?

The bars show when commuters in Stone 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		10.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		15.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		5.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Stone County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 20.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 40.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.7%) 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 Stone 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 Stone 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 Stone 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Stone County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:03 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:59 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:58 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:01 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:03 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:07 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:00 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:01 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:03 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:07 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:06 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Stone County were on the road by 7:06 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:03 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Stone County now leave 31 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 Stone County has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Stone County's commute time compare?

Metric	Stone County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.2 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	3.3%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.6%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Stone County is 31.2 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 3.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Stone County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Stone County, MS is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 18,894 residents against a local median of 57,458. Where Stone County, MS breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 28% below the local median of 4.6% at 3.3%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 31.2 min against a local median of 25.7 min, 21% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 21% above the local median it puts Stone County, MS at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 7.3% on work from home, so Stone County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Stone County, MS has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Stone County, MS	18,894	31.2 min #6/6	3.3% #5/6	7:06 AM #4/6
Harrison County, MS	210,887	21.0 min	7.1%	7:21 AM
Perry County, MS	11,449	25.7 min	1.5%	7:02 AM
Forrest County, MS	78,271	17.2 min	4.0%	7:33 AM
Pearl River County, MS	57,458	28.3 min	8.8%	7:00 AM
George County, MS	25,170	31.1 min	4.6%	6:48 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Stone County, Mississippi.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Stone County, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 260 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,057 at a typical national wage. That's 45% more than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Stone County, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Stone County, Mississippi. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How do commute times compare across counties in Mississippi?

Among counties in Mississippi, the shortest average commutes are in Sharkey County (11.9 min), Coahoma County (13.2 min), Leflore County (15.2 min). The longest are in Wilkinson County (36.8 min), Tate County (32.8 min), Greene County (32.7 min).