Sunflower County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Sunflower 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 Sunflower County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sunflower County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 131 hours, about 5.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 5.8 minutes.

Sunflower County holds about 0.8% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sunflower County would save about 52 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,619 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)
Sunflower County	15.7 min	31.3 min	131 hrs/yr	$4,048	526
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

Sunflower County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.7 minutes to get to work in Sunflower County. That's 30% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 94% of counties in Mississippi

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 5.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sunflower County

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Sunflower County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sunflower 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	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.1%	1.3%	4.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	92.9%	1.4%	4.5%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.4%	1.4%	5.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.0%	1.1%	4.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.7%	1.0%	3.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.8%	0.8%	3.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.7%	0.7%	3.5%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.3%	1.0%	2.8%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	94.2%	1.0%	2.6%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	93.8%	1.3%	2.9%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	93.2%	2.0%	2.6%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	93.6%	3.4%	2.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	93.4%	3.3%	2.1%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.3%	4.2%	1.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.1%	5.4%	1.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.9%	5.6%	1.2%	1.1%	0.2%	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 peaked in 2014 at 94.8%. Overall it fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 91.9% in 2024, down 1.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sunflower County: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 5.6% in 2024, up 4.3 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 4.0% to 1.2% of workers (down 2.8 percentage points).

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

Commute Start Times in Sunflower County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sunflower County?

The bars show when commuters in Sunflower 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		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		21.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sunflower County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 13.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush looks much like Mississippi's: 52.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.0%) 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 Sunflower 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 Sunflower 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 Sunflower 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	Sunflower County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sunflower County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:24 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Sunflower County now leave 11 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 Sunflower County has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Sunflower County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sunflower County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.7 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	5.6%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sunflower County is 15.7 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Sunflower County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Sunflower County, MS is typical in size for this group, 24,333 residents against a local median of 27,141, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Sunflower County, MS's work from home, at 5.6%, runs 94% above the 2.9% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 5.5% on work from home, so Sunflower County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Sunflower County, MS has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Sunflower County, MS	24,333	15.7 min #2/6	5.6% #2/6	7:27 AM #6/6
Leflore County, MS	27,141	15.2 min	2.9%	7:26 AM
Bolivar County, MS	29,520	15.9 min	2.4%	7:22 AM
Humphreys County, MS	7,395	16.8 min	0.8%	7:19 AM
Washington County, MS	42,708	16.1 min	3.7%	7:26 AM
Tallahatchie County, MS	11,764	23.3 min	6.4%	6:55 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Sunflower County, Mississippi.

Is living in Sunflower County, Mississippi good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 131 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,048 at a typical national wage. That's 27% less than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Sunflower County, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Sunflower County, 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).