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Wayne County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Wayne County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wayne County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 188 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Wayne County holds about 0.7% of Mississippi's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wayne County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,335 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)
Wayne County 22.6 min 45.2 min 188 hrs/yr $5,837 332
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

Wayne County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.6 minutes to get to work in Wayne County. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wayne County

  • Car: 93.5%
  • Worked at Home: 4.0%
  • Other: 1.3%
  • Public Transportation: 0.6%
  • Walked: 0.5%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Wayne County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wayne 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 Other Public Transportation Walked Bicycle Taxi Motorcycle
2009 92.8% 3.8% 2.5% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2010 90.6% 4.9% 3.4% 0.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2011 91.9% 3.7% 2.7% 0.9% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2012 93.4% 2.5% 2.2% 0.8% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2013 91.9% 2.5% 3.4% 1.3% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 90.9% 3.7% 3.2% 1.4% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 89.7% 5.1% 2.7% 0.8% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 86.9% 5.9% 4.2% 1.3% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 86.5% 7.1% 3.9% 1.1% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 86.7% 7.6% 3.4% 0.9% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 87.0% 5.4% 4.0% 1.0% 2.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 89.2% 4.2% 4.2% 1.1% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 91.9% 2.2% 3.9% 0.3% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 91.4% 3.7% 3.1% 0.0% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 92.5% 3.8% 1.7% 0.1% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 93.5% 4.0% 1.3% 0.6% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2017 at 86.5%. Overall it rose from 92.8% in 2009 to 93.5% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home peaked at 7.6% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 4.0%.

Commute Start Times in Wayne County

  • Sleeping InThe 3rd-highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among Mississippi's 82 counties: 25.1% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.
  • Rush-Hour DodgersThe 3rd-lowest share of rush-hour departures among Mississippi's 82 counties: only 36.3% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wayne County?

The bars show when commuters in Wayne 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
10.5%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
12.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
14.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
8.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
8.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
9.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wayne County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 23.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 36.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.1%) 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 Wayne 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 Wayne 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 Wayne 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 Wayne County Mississippi United States
2009 7:00 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2010 6:58 AM 7:21 AM 7:38 AM
2011 6:54 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2012 6:48 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2013 6:53 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2014 6:56 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2015 6:57 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2016 6:53 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2017 6:51 AM 7:19 AM 7:38 AM
2018 6:52 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2019 6:48 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2020 6:53 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2021 6:53 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2022 6:53 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2023 6:56 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM
2024 6:59 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wayne County were on the road by 6:59 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Mississippi, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Wayne County now leave 39 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 Wayne County has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Wayne County's commute time compare?

Metric Wayne County Mississippi US Average
Avg. Commute Time 22.6 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 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 4.0% 5.9% 15.0%
Walked 0.5% 1.3% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.6% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Wayne County is 22.6 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Wayne County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Wayne County, MS is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 19,718 residents against a local median of 15,143. The measure that sets Wayne County, MS apart most is one-way commute: 22.6 min, 25% below the local median of 30.3 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 4.0% against a local median of 3.3%, 22% above it. The counties themselves spread 14.0 min on one-way commute, so Wayne County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Wayne County, MS has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Wayne County, MS 19,718 22.6 min #2/6 4.0% #3/6 6:59 AM #3/6
Clarke County, MS 15,314 30.3 min 2.3% 7:27 AM
Greene County, MS 13,615 32.7 min 3.3% 6:31 AM
Jones County, MS 66,472 18.6 min 4.4% 7:13 AM
Washington County, AL 15,143 31.4 min 7.7% 6:27 AM
Perry County, MS 11,449 25.7 min 1.5% 7:02 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Wayne County, Mississippi.

Is commuting expensive in Wayne County, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 188 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,837 at a typical national wage. That's 5% more than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Wayne 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.

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).