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Commute Time Burden in Tunica County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Tunica County spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 221 hours, about 9.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

Tunica County holds about 0.3% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Tunica County would save about 89 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,746 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)
Tunica County 26.6 min 53.1 min 221 hrs/yr $6,865 306
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
  1. Sharkey County (11.9 min)
  2. Coahoma County (13.2 min)
  3. Leflore County (15.2 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Mississippi
  1. Wilkinson County (36.8 min)
  2. Tate County (32.8 min)
  3. Greene County (32.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Tunica County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 26.6 minutes to get to work in Tunica County. That's 19% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 1.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Tunica County

  • Car: 97.6%
  • Walked: 1.2%
  • Worked at Home: 1.1% unusually low
  • Other: 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Tunica County, versus 0.3% in Mississippi.

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Tunica County: 5.4 times less than the Mississippi average (1.1% vs 5.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Tunica County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Tunica 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 Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 88.6% 3.7% 1.2% 5.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.8% 0.0%
2010 90.6% 4.1% 0.8% 2.9% 0.9% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0%
2011 93.3% 4.4% 0.7% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2012 94.3% 2.7% 1.0% 1.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2013 93.1% 4.5% 1.1% 0.2% 1.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2014 94.3% 3.2% 0.8% 0.2% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 95.4% 2.4% 1.0% 0.0% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 93.7% 2.6% 1.0% 0.8% 1.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2017 94.9% 2.0% 0.6% 1.5% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2018 95.5% 1.8% 1.1% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2019 95.6% 1.4% 1.2% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2020 94.5% 1.7% 1.4% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0%
2021 96.5% 1.7% 1.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2022 96.9% 1.7% 0.9% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2023 97.5% 1.0% 0.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2024 97.6% 1.2% 1.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share rose from 88.6% in 2009 to 97.6% in 2024, up 9.0 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 4 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.7% to 1.2% of workers (down 2.5 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 1.8% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Tunica County

  • Earlier AlarmsThe biggest shift to earlier mornings among Mississippi's 82 counties: the typical start is 32 minutes earlier than in 2009.
  • Sleeping InThe 2nd-highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among Mississippi's 82 counties: 26.7% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Tunica County?

The bars show when commuters in Tunica 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
10.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
7.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
0.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
17.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Tunica County is 4:00-11:59 PM, when 17.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.4% across Mississippi. Early starts are about as common as in Mississippi: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 46.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.7%) 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 Tunica 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 Tunica 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 Tunica 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 Tunica County Mississippi United States
2009 7:56 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:48 AM 7:21 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:48 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:45 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:40 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:31 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:38 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:36 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:26 AM 7:19 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:18 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:28 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:40 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:25 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:29 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:20 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:24 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Tunica County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 32 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:56 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Tunica County now leave 14 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 Tunica County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Tunica County's commute time compare?

Metric Tunica County Mississippi US Average
Avg. Commute Time 26.6 min 21.5 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM 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 1.1% 5.9% 15.0%
Walked 1.2% 1.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Tunica County is 26.6 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.0% 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

Tunica County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Tunica County, MS is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 9,475 residents against a local median of 20,540. Where Tunica County, MS breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 86% below the local median of 8.0% at 1.1%.

The counties themselves spread 13.2% on work from home, so Tunica County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Tunica County, MS has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Tunica County, MS 9,475 26.6 min #4/6 1.1% #6/6 7:24 AM #6/6
Quitman County, MS 5,774 27.8 min 7.2% 7:02 AM
Lee County, AR 8,359 20.7 min 16.8% 7:06 AM
Tate County, MS 28,321 32.8 min 3.6% 7:11 AM
DeSoto County, MS 191,302 25.1 min 8.2% 7:19 AM
Coahoma County, MS 20,540 13.2 min 8.0% 7:22 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Tunica County, Mississippi.

Is commuting expensive in Tunica County, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 221 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,865 at a typical national wage. That's 24% more than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Tunica County, Mississippi?

Traffic peaks between 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM in Tunica 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Tunica County, Mississippi?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Mississippi, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).