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Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16 years+, 2014-2018 - (Minutes)
County
Value
Adams
19.8
Alcorn
22.8
Amite
39.9
Attala
30.9
Benton
29.7
Bolivar
18.3
Calhoun
24.7
Carroll
28.6
Chickasaw
24.4
Choctaw
30.9
Claiborne
24.2
Clarke
30.3
Clay
22.1
Coahoma
21.1
Copiah
31.6
Covington
27.2
DeSoto
25.0
Forrest
20.6
Franklin
31.6
George
35.2
Greene
34.7
Grenada
17.9
Hancock
29.6
Harrison
23.1
Hinds
23.0
Holmes
28.2
Humphreys
22.7
Issaquena
24.1
Itawamba
25.3
Jackson
24.0
Jasper
34.8
Jefferson
24.0
Jefferson Davis
34.7
Jones
21.8
Kemper
33.0
Lafayette
18.9
Lamar
25.7
Lauderdale
19.9
Lawrence
35.7
Leake
30.6
Lee
20.6
Leflore
15.1
Lincoln
29.0
Lowndes
20.7
Madison
22.4
Marion
34.0
Marshall
28.2
Monroe
24.6
Montgomery
30.0
Neshoba
24.7
Newton
27.1
Noxubee
27.6
Oktibbeha
18.6
Panola
25.2
Pearl River
34.8
Perry
32.3
Pike
24.3
Pontotoc
24.7
Prentiss
25.2
Quitman
27.4
Rankin
25.3
Scott
25.2
Sharkey
23.2
Simpson
34.2
Smith
35.8
Stone
32.0
Sunflower
18.9
Tallahatchie
25.6
Tate
31.8
Tippah
25.1
Tishomingo
22.2
Tunica
22.4
Union
24.3
Walthall
37.2
Warren
19.0
Washington
16.7
Wayne
35.3
Webster
28.1
Wilkinson
30.7
Winston
27.1
Yalobusha
24.7
Yazoo
25.7
Value for Mississippi (Minutes): 24.6
Data item: Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16 years+, 2014-2018
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS), 5-Year Estimates. The PRCS is part of the Census Bureau's ACS, customized for Puerto Rico. Both Surveys are updated every year.
Definition
Travel time to work refers to the total number of minutes that it usually took the person to get from home to work each day during the reference week. The elapsed time includes time spent waiting for public transportation, picking up passengers in carpools, and time spent in other activities related to getting to work.
Mean travel time to work is obtained by dividing the total number of minutes by the number of workers 16 years old and over who did not work at home. Mean travel time to work is rounded to the nearest tenth of a minute. For the complete definition, go to ACS subject definitions "Travel Time to Work."
Source and Accuracy
This Fact is based on data collected in the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau. A sample of over 3.5 million housing unit addresses is interviewed each year over a 12 month period. This Fact (estimate) is based on five years of ACS and PRCS sample data and describes the average value of person, household and housing unit characteristics over this period of collection.
Statistics from all surveys are subject to sampling and nonsampling error. Sampling error is the uncertainty between an estimate based on a sample and the corresponding value that would be obtained if the estimate were based on the entire population (as from a census). Measures of sampling error are provided in the form of margins of error for all estimates included with ACS and PRCS published products. The Census Bureau recommends that data users incorporate this information into their analyses, as sampling error in survey estimates could impact the conclusions drawn from the results. The data for each geographic area are presented together with margins of error at Using margins of error. A more detailed explanation of margins of error and a demonstration of how to use them is provided below.
For more information on sampling and estimation methodology, confidentiality, and sampling and nonsampling errors, please see the Multiyear Accuracy (US) and the Multiyear Accuracy (Puerto Rico) documents at "Documentation - Accuracy of the data."
Margin of Error
As mentioned above, ACS estimates are based on a sample and are subject to sampling error. The margin of error measures the degree of uncertainty caused by sampling error. The margin of error is used with an ACS estimate to construct a confidence interval about the estimate. The interval is formed by adding the margin of error to the estimate (the upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (the lower bound). It is expected with 90 percent confidence that the interval will contain the full population value of the estimate. The following example is for demonstrating purposes only. Suppose the ACS reported that the percentage of people in a state who were 25 years and older with a bachelor's degree was 21.3 percent and that the margin of error associated with this estimate was 0.7 percent. By adding and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate, we calculate the 90-percent confidence interval for this estimate:
Therefore, we can be 90 percent confident that the percent of the population 25 years and older having a bachelor's degree in a state falls somewhere between 20.6 percent and 22.0 percent.
