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Yazoo County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Yazoo County, Mississippi: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Yazoo County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Yazoo County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 156 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Mississippi average of 21.5 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.

Yazoo County holds about 0.8% of Mississippi's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Yazoo County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,933 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)
Yazoo County 18.7 min 37.4 min 156 hrs/yr $4,832 527
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

Yazoo County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.7 minutes to get to work in Yazoo County. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 75% of counties in Mississippi

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Yazoo County

  • Car: 91.0%
  • Worked at Home: 4.5%
  • Walked: 2.2%
  • Other: 2.2%
  • 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 Yazoo County, versus 0.1% in Mississippi.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Yazoo County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Yazoo 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 Walked Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 95.6% 2.1% 0.6% 0.6% 0.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 96.3% 1.5% 0.7% 0.8% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 96.1% 2.0% 0.7% 0.6% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 96.3% 2.3% 0.3% 0.6% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 95.8% 2.6% 0.4% 1.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 96.0% 2.9% 0.4% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 96.0% 3.0% 0.5% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 96.4% 2.2% 0.8% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 96.6% 1.9% 1.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 96.0% 1.9% 0.8% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2019 96.2% 1.6% 0.9% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2020 95.7% 2.0% 0.7% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2021 94.7% 3.8% 0.4% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2022 90.9% 5.1% 1.1% 2.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2023 92.0% 4.2% 1.7% 2.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 91.0% 4.5% 2.2% 2.2% 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 2017 at 96.6% and lowest in 2022 at 90.9%. Overall it fell from 95.6% in 2009 to 91.0% in 2024, down 4.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Yazoo County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 4.5% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Yazoo County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Yazoo County?

The bars show when commuters in Yazoo 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
10.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
17.6%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
9.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Yazoo County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 17.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Mississippi. Early starts are more common than in Mississippi: 23.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Mississippi: 53.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.4% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.9%) 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 Yazoo 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 Yazoo 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 Yazoo 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 Yazoo County Mississippi United States
2009 7:12 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:16 AM 7:21 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:15 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:17 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:17 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:15 AM 7:20 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:17 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:18 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:17 AM 7:19 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:15 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:10 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:06 AM 7:19 AM 7:37 AM
2021 6:54 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2022 6:57 AM 7:18 AM 7:37 AM
2023 6:54 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:01 AM 7:18 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Yazoo County were on the road by 7:01 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:12 AM). The shift is sharper than across Mississippi, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Yazoo County now leave 37 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 Yazoo County has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Yazoo County's commute time compare?

Metric Yazoo County Mississippi US Average
Avg. Commute Time 18.7 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 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 4.5% 5.9% 15.0%
Walked 2.2% 1.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Yazoo County is 18.7 minutes, shorter than the 21.5 minutes in Mississippi.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Mississippi. 2.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Mississippi.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Yazoo County, MS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Yazoo County, MS is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 24,832 residents against a local median of 16,191. Where Yazoo County, MS breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 69% above the local median of 2.7% at 4.5%.

The counties themselves spread 8.8% on work from home, so Yazoo County, MS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Yazoo County, MS has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Yazoo County, MS 24,832 18.7 min #3/6 4.5% #3/6 7:01 AM #1/6
Humphreys County, MS 7,395 16.8 min 0.8% 7:19 AM
Madison County, MS 111,640 21.8 min 9.6% 7:27 AM
Sharkey County, MS 3,872 11.9 min 1.9% 7:12 AM
Holmes County, MS 16,191 32.5 min 2.7% 7:04 AM
Hinds County, MS 218,428 21.5 min 8.6% 7:34 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Yazoo County, Mississippi.

Is commuting expensive in Yazoo County, Mississippi?

Commuters here spend an estimated 156 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,832 at a typical national wage. That's 13% less than the typical Mississippi commuter spends.

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

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

Do people use public transit in Yazoo 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.

Which counties in Mississippi have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).