Commuting in Tallahatchie 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 Tallahatchie County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Tallahatchie County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 194 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.
Tallahatchie County holds about 0.4% of Mississippi's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Tallahatchie County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,410 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)
Tallahatchie County
23.3 min
46.7 min
194 hrs/yr
$6,026
334
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.
On average, it takes
23.3
minutes to get to work in
Tallahatchie County.
That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.4% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Tallahatchie County
Car:
92.3%
Worked at Home:
6.4%
Walked:
0.5%
Public Transportation:
0.5%
Other:
0.3%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Tallahatchie County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Tallahatchie County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.
Biking is essentially absent in Tallahatchie County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.
Commute Mode Trends in Tallahatchie County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Tallahatchie 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
Public Transportation
Walked
Other
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
94.0%
0.6%
0.4%
4.5%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2010
92.8%
0.6%
1.7%
4.3%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2011
93.8%
0.8%
0.3%
4.8%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2012
95.0%
0.7%
0.4%
3.4%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2013
95.4%
1.0%
0.3%
2.9%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014
93.5%
1.8%
0.2%
3.8%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.3%
2015
91.9%
3.6%
0.1%
3.3%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.7%
2016
92.7%
3.6%
0.2%
2.8%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.2%
2017
91.2%
5.4%
0.0%
3.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2018
90.9%
5.3%
0.0%
3.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.2%
2019
90.5%
6.2%
1.5%
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
90.3%
6.3%
1.7%
1.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
88.3%
8.0%
1.4%
2.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
90.2%
7.6%
1.0%
1.0%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
90.1%
8.1%
0.9%
0.8%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
92.3%
6.4%
0.5%
0.5%
0.3%
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 2013 at 95.4% and lowest in 2021 at 88.3%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 92.3% in 2024, down 1.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.
Working from home gained the most ground in Tallahatchie County: its share of workers rose from 0.6% in 2009 to 6.4% in 2024, up 5.8 percentage points.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.5% to 0.5% of workers (down 4.0 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.
Working from home peaked at 8.1% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 6.4%.
Commute Start Times in Tallahatchie County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Tallahatchie County?
The bars show when commuters in Tallahatchie 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.
Tallahatchie CountyMississippiSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Tallahatchie County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 19.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 48.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.5%) 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 Tallahatchie 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 Tallahatchie 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 Tallahatchie 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
Tallahatchie County
Mississippi
United States
2009
7:11 AM
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:13 AM
7:21 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:08 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:08 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:09 AM
7:20 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:09 AM
7:20 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:13 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:09 AM
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:02 AM
7:19 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:05 AM
7:19 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:10 AM
7:19 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:03 AM
7:19 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:07 AM
7:18 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:08 AM
7:18 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:02 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
2024
6:55 AM
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Tallahatchie County were on the road by 6:55 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:11 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Tallahatchie County now leave 43 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 Tallahatchie County has moved 15 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Tallahatchie County in the whole series.
How does Tallahatchie County's commute time compare?
Metric
Tallahatchie County
Mississippi
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
23.3 min
21.5 min
22.4 min
Departure Window
06:30 AM – 06:59 AM
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
6.4%
5.9%
15.0%
Walked
0.5%
1.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.5%
0.3%
3.2%
The average commute time in Tallahatchie County is 23.3 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.
0.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.
Tallahatchie County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Tallahatchie County, MS is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 11,764 residents against a local median of 21,217. Tallahatchie County, MS's work from home, at 6.4%, runs 37% above the 4.6% typical of the counties around it.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 23.3 min against a local median of 27.8 min, 16% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 16% below the local median it puts Tallahatchie County, MS at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.0% on work from home, so Tallahatchie County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Tallahatchie County, MS has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi?
Commuters here spend an estimated 194 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,026 at a typical national wage. That's 8% more than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi?
Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Which counties in Mississippi have the fastest and slowest commutes?
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).