Winston County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Winston County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Winston County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Winston County holds about 0.6% of Mississippi's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Winston County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,101 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)
Winston County	20.3 min	40.7 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,252	385
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.

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On average, it takes 20.3 minutes to get to work in Winston County. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 70% of counties in Mississippi

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by other means. About 3.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Winston County

• Car: 89.5%
• Other: 6.5%
• Worked at Home: 3.5%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Winston County: 3.6 times less than the Mississippi average (0.4% vs 1.3%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Winston County: just 0.4%, 3.8 times below the Mississippi average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Winston County, 2009-2024

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

Year	Car	Other	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.3%	0.3%	1.9%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	93.8%	0.4%	2.7%	2.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	93.9%	0.7%	2.6%	1.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	95.7%	0.6%	2.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.3%	1.0%	2.3%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	95.7%	1.1%	1.8%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	95.1%	1.2%	1.2%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2016	94.7%	1.9%	0.8%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2017	93.2%	2.3%	1.0%	2.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2018	94.6%	1.8%	0.7%	2.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2019	93.6%	2.1%	0.5%	3.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	91.9%	4.6%	1.2%	1.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	92.9%	3.0%	2.0%	1.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	92.1%	4.7%	1.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	90.3%	6.6%	2.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.5%	6.5%	3.5%	0.4%	0.1%	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 2012 at 95.7%. Overall it fell from 95.3% in 2009 to 89.5% in 2024, down 5.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Winston County: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 3.5% in 2024, up 1.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Winston County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Winston County?

The bars show when commuters in Winston 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 Winston County9.0% Mississippi6.6%	9.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Winston County5.8% Mississippi4.5%	5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Winston County11.0% Mississippi5.3%	11.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Winston County5.5% Mississippi11.1%	5.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Winston County12.8% Mississippi12.4%	12.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Winston County14.8% Mississippi17.1%	14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Winston County10.9% Mississippi12.6%	10.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Winston County7.3% Mississippi8.2%	7.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Winston County0.7% Mississippi3.0%	0.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Winston County4.6% Mississippi4.0%	4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Winston County4.0% Mississippi2.1%	4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Winston County0.8% Mississippi0.8%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Winston County7.9% Mississippi5.8%	7.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Winston County4.8% Mississippi6.4%	4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Winston County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 25.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Mississippi: 45.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.2%) 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 Winston 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 Winston 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 Winston 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	Winston County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:09 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:04 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:03 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:59 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:56 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:53 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:05 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:09 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:12 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Winston County were on the road by 7:12 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:09 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Winston County now leave 26 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 Winston County has moved 13 minutes later.

How does Winston County's commute time compare?

Metric	Winston County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.3 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.5%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Winston County is 20.3 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau