Alpharetta Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Alpharetta, Georgia: 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 Alpharetta: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Alpharetta spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 187 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Alpharetta holds about 0.6% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Alpharetta would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,323 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)
Alpharetta	22.5 min	45.0 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,808	3,896
Georgia	23.6 min	47.3 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,109	1,447
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.

Alpharetta Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.5 minutes to get to work in Alpharetta. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 36.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Alpharetta

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Alpharetta: 306985233.5 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 26% less common in Alpharetta than the Georgia average (59.1% vs 79.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Alpharetta, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Alpharetta 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	86.7%	8.5%	2.6%	0.8%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	85.8%	9.6%	2.6%	0.6%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	86.2%	9.4%	2.5%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	86.2%	10.0%	1.9%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	85.7%	9.9%	2.4%	0.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	84.5%	10.3%	2.3%	0.9%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	85.8%	9.8%	2.0%	1.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	85.2%	10.2%	1.5%	0.9%	1.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	83.3%	11.6%	1.6%	0.9%	1.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	83.2%	12.0%	1.3%	0.6%	1.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	82.3%	12.4%	1.4%	1.3%	1.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	77.3%	18.0%	1.5%	0.8%	1.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	70.7%	24.9%	1.5%	1.2%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	66.6%	29.6%	1.3%	1.0%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	63.1%	32.9%	1.6%	1.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	59.1%	36.6%	1.9%	1.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 86.7% in 2009 to 59.1% in 2024, down 27.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Alpharetta: its share of workers rose from 8.5% in 2009 to 36.6% in 2024, up 28.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 24.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 1.9% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Alpharetta

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Alpharetta?

The bars show when commuters in Alpharetta 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 Georgia for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		1.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		19.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		13.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.5%

Alpharetta Georgia Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Alpharetta is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 19.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 5.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 49.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.8%) 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 Alpharetta, 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 Alpharetta 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 Alpharetta next to Georgia 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	Alpharetta	Georgia	United States
2009	8:02 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:02 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:03 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:03 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:00 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:01 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:00 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:00 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:58 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:56 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:00 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:07 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:05 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:08 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:07 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Alpharetta were on the road by 8:13 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (8:02 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Alpharetta now leave 35 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Alpharetta has moved 13 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Alpharetta in the whole series.

How does Alpharetta's commute time compare?

Metric	Alpharetta	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.5 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	09:00 AM – 09:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	36.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Alpharetta is 22.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 1.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Alpharetta, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Alpharetta, GA is typical in size for this group, 64,246 residents against a local median of 62,831, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Alpharetta, GA an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 8% below the local median at 22.5 min against 24.5 min. Alpharetta, GA has the lowest one-way commute of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Alpharetta, GA	64,246	22.5 min #1/5	36.6% #3/5	8:13 AM #5/5
Milton, GA	44,324	23.5 min	40.2%	8:10 AM
Johns Creek, GA	81,338	26.7 min	37.3%	8:09 AM
Roswell, GA	93,449	23.7 min	32.1%	8:03 AM
Peachtree Corners, GA	41,194	25.2 min	25.7%	8:06 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Is living in Alpharetta, Georgia good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 187 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,808 at a typical national wage. That's 5% less than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Alpharetta, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Alpharetta, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is Alpharetta, Georgia a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 36.6% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Alpharetta would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,323 at the same national wage assumption used above.