Atkinson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Atkinson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Atkinson County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 198 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way.

Atkinson County holds about 0.1% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Atkinson County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,453 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)
Atkinson County	23.7 min	47.5 min	198 hrs/yr	$6,134	400
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.

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On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Atkinson County. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Atkinson County

• Car: 96.2% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 3.1% unusually low
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Other: 0.3%
• 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 Atkinson County, versus 0.1% in Georgia.

Driving is 21% more common in Atkinson County than the Georgia average (96.2% vs 79.8%).

Walking is unusually rare in Atkinson County: 3.4 times less than the Georgia average (0.4% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Atkinson County, versus 1.1% in Georgia.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Atkinson County, versus 0.4% in Georgia.

Working from home is unusually rare in Atkinson County: 5.1 times less than the Georgia average (3.1% vs 15.9%).

Biking is essentially absent in Atkinson County, versus 0.2% in Georgia.

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

Commute Mode Trends in Atkinson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Atkinson 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	88.9%	6.5%	1.0%	1.2%	0.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.8%
2010	92.0%	5.4%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%
2011	89.7%	7.0%	0.4%	1.4%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	96.7%	1.0%	0.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2013	97.2%	0.7%	0.5%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.4%	0.6%	1.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.6%	0.9%	1.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.4%	1.3%	1.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.4%	1.2%	2.2%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.4%	0.4%	2.6%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.5%	0.3%	2.4%	4.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.7%	0.3%	2.3%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.9%	1.3%	1.9%	5.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.0%	1.4%	1.6%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.6%	3.0%	1.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	96.2%	3.1%	0.4%	0.3%	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 peaked in 2013 at 97.2%. Overall it rose from 88.9% in 2009 to 96.2% in 2024, up 7.3 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 6.5% to 3.1% of workers (down 3.4 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 2.6% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.4%.

Commute Start Times in Atkinson County

• 🐦 Early BirdThe 2nd-earliest start among Georgia's 159 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 6:50 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Atkinson County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Atkinson County11.7% Georgia5.2%	11.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Atkinson County7.4% Georgia3.9%	7.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Atkinson County4.9% Georgia4.6%	4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Atkinson County18.8% Georgia9.4%	18.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Atkinson County10.6% Georgia9.6%	10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Atkinson County14.5% Georgia14.9%	14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Atkinson County10.2% Georgia11.5%	10.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Atkinson County4.7% Georgia11.6%	4.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Atkinson County6.9% Georgia5.1%	6.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Atkinson County2.9% Georgia6.7%	2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Atkinson County1.7% Georgia3.1%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Atkinson County0.0% Georgia1.4%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Atkinson County1.8% Georgia6.4%	1.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Atkinson County4.1% Georgia6.7%	4.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Atkinson County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 18.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.4% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 24.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 40.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 10 commuters (10.4%) 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 Atkinson 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 Atkinson 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 Atkinson County 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.

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• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Atkinson County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:09 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:07 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:04 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:08 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:04 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:11 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:09 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:05 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:52 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:51 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Atkinson County were on the road by 6:51 AM, 27 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:18 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Atkinson County now leave 47 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 Atkinson County has moved 21 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Atkinson County in the whole series.

How does Atkinson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Atkinson County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.7 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.1%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Atkinson County is about the same as in Georgia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau