Banks County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Banks County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Banks County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 253 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.7 minutes.

Banks County holds about 0.2% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Banks County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,140 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)
Banks County	30.4 min	60.8 min	253 hrs/yr	$7,851	944
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 30.4 minutes to get to work in Banks County. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 82% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Banks County

• Car: 90.3%
• Worked at Home: 8.7%
• Other: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Banks County: 220.5 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Banks County: 3.7 times less than the Georgia average (0.4% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Banks County: 33.8 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 1.1%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Banks County: just 0.4%, 4.1 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Banks County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Banks 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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• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.4%	6.1%	0.5%	2.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	90.0%	6.6%	0.7%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	90.1%	6.4%	0.7%	2.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	91.4%	5.4%	0.6%	1.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	91.9%	5.0%	0.7%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	91.9%	5.0%	0.6%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	93.0%	4.2%	0.6%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	94.3%	3.2%	0.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	93.0%	4.4%	0.3%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	93.4%	4.8%	0.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	92.9%	5.5%	0.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	91.9%	6.7%	0.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	91.0%	7.6%	0.0%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.8%	8.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.1%	7.7%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.3%	8.7%	0.6%	0.4%	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 2016 at 94.3% and lowest in 2010 at 90.0%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 90.4% in 2009 and 90.3% in 2024. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Banks County: its share of workers rose from 6.1% in 2009 to 8.7% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Banks County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Banks County?

The bars show when commuters in Banks 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 Banks County9.8% Georgia5.2%	9.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Banks County10.6% Georgia3.9%	10.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Banks County6.2% Georgia4.6%	6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Banks County10.3% Georgia9.4%	10.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Banks County8.7% Georgia9.6%	8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Banks County18.4% Georgia14.9%	18.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Banks County10.9% Georgia11.5%	10.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Banks County7.2% Georgia11.6%	7.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Banks County1.3% Georgia5.1%	1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Banks County3.6% Georgia6.7%	3.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Banks County3.3% Georgia3.1%	3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Banks County1.5% Georgia1.4%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Banks County2.9% Georgia6.4%	2.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Banks County5.4% Georgia6.7%	5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Banks County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 26.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 45.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.7%) 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 Banks 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 Banks 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 Banks 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Banks County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:07 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Banks County were on the road by 7:07 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Banks County now leave 30 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 Banks County has moved 12 minutes earlier.

How does Banks County's commute time compare?

Metric	Banks County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.4 min	23.6 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.7%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Banks County is 30.4 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes 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