Yalobusha County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Yalobusha County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Yalobusha County spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 233 hours, about 9.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 6.5 minutes.

Yalobusha County holds about 0.4% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Yalobusha County would save about 93 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,891 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)
Yalobusha County	28.0 min	56.0 min	233 hrs/yr	$7,228	342
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 28.0 minutes to get to work in Yalobusha County. That's 25% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 75% 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 working from home. About 7.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Yalobusha County

• Car: 90.7%
• Worked at Home: 7.9%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.3% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Other: 0.3%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Yalobusha County: 6.0 times more than the Mississippi average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Yalobusha County: 3.0 times less than the Mississippi average (0.4% vs 1.3%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Yalobusha County: just 0.4%, 3.2 times below the Mississippi average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Yalobusha County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Yalobusha 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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Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Other	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	95.7%	2.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.2%	2.5%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.5%	2.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.9%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	98.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	98.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	98.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	99.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	99.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	98.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	98.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	96.8%	2.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	97.8%	1.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	97.3%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.0%	3.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.7%	7.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	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 2016 at 99.3%. Overall it fell from 95.7% in 2009 to 90.7% in 2024, down 5.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Yalobusha County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 7.9% in 2024, up 5.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Yalobusha County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Yalobusha County?

The bars show when commuters in Yalobusha 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 Yalobusha County3.9% Mississippi6.6%	3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Yalobusha County4.8% Mississippi4.5%	4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Yalobusha County3.9% Mississippi5.3%	3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Yalobusha County11.3% Mississippi11.1%	11.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Yalobusha County11.7% Mississippi12.4%	11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Yalobusha County22.0% Mississippi17.1%	22.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Yalobusha County10.5% Mississippi12.6%	10.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Yalobusha County8.9% Mississippi8.2%	8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Yalobusha County1.0% Mississippi3.0%	1.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Yalobusha County3.3% Mississippi4.0%	3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Yalobusha County0.8% Mississippi2.1%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Yalobusha County0.0% Mississippi0.8%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Yalobusha County9.1% Mississippi5.8%	9.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Yalobusha County8.7% Mississippi6.4%	8.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Yalobusha County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Mississippi. Early starts are less common than in Mississippi: 12.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 53.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.0%) 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 Yalobusha 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 Yalobusha 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 Yalobusha 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	Yalobusha County	Mississippi	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:53 AM	7:20 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:50 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:57 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:59 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:06 AM	7:19 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:18 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:18 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Yalobusha County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). That goes against the trend across Mississippi, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Yalobusha County now leave 18 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 Yalobusha County has moved 15 minutes later.

How does Yalobusha County's commute time compare?

Metric	Yalobusha County	Mississippi	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.0 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	7.9%	5.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Yalobusha County is 28.0 minutes, longer than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Mississippi. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau