Union County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Union County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Union County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 179 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way.

Union County holds about 1.0% of Mississippi's population and accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Union County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,219 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)
Union County	21.5 min	43.0 min	179 hrs/yr	$5,548	1,154
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 21.5 minutes to get to work in Union County. That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 1.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Union County

• Car: 98.0%
• Worked at Home: 1.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Other: 0.2%
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Union County: 6.6 times more than the Mississippi average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Union County: 51.9 times less than the Mississippi average (0.0% vs 1.3%).

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Union County: 4.1 times less than the Mississippi average (1.4% vs 5.9%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Union County: just 0.0%, 55.0 times below the Mississippi average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Union County, 2009-2024

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

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Motorcycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Walked
2009	97.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	95.5%	1.6%	0.0%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2011	95.2%	1.5%	0.1%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2012	94.3%	2.2%	0.3%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
2013	93.8%	2.9%	0.3%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%
2014	92.6%	3.8%	0.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
2015	93.7%	3.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%
2016	94.8%	3.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.6%
2017	96.9%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2018	98.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2019	98.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2020	98.4%	0.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	98.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2022	98.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2023	98.0%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	98.0%	1.4%	0.4%	0.2%	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. Its share was highest in 2019 at 98.6% and lowest in 2014 at 92.6%. Overall it rose from 97.1% in 2009 to 98.0% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 3.8% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 1.4%.

Commute Start Times in Union County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Union County?

The bars show when commuters in Union 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 Union County8.1% Mississippi6.6%	8.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Union County6.1% Mississippi4.5%	6.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Union County10.2% Mississippi5.3%	10.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Union County13.2% Mississippi11.1%	13.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Union County12.4% Mississippi12.4%	12.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Union County12.0% Mississippi17.1%	12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Union County11.6% Mississippi12.6%	11.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Union County7.7% Mississippi8.2%	7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Union County2.8% Mississippi3.0%	2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Union County3.2% Mississippi4.0%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Union County1.0% Mississippi2.1%	1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Union County0.5% Mississippi0.8%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Union County4.7% Mississippi5.8%	4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Union County6.7% Mississippi6.4%	6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Union County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 13.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 24.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 43.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.0%) 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 Union 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 Union 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 Union 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Union County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:01 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:57 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:07 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:07 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:09 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:10 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:09 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:01 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:00 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Union County were on the road by 7:00 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:01 AM). Mississippi followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Union County now leave 38 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 Union County has moved 10 minutes earlier.

How does Union County's commute time compare?

Metric	Union County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.5 min	21.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	1.4%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

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

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau