Ben Hill County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Ben Hill County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ben Hill County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 106 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 46% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 11.0 minutes.

Ben Hill County holds about 0.2% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Ben Hill County would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,311 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)
Ben Hill County	12.7 min	25.4 min	106 hrs/yr	$3,278	353
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 12.7 minutes to get to work in Ben Hill County. That's 43% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest counties in Georgia

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 5.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ben Hill County

• Car: 88.9%
• Worked at Home: 5.7%
• Walked: 2.3%
• Other: 2.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.9%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Ben Hill County, versus 0.1% in Georgia.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Ben Hill County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ben Hill 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.5%	1.7%	1.5%	2.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	92.8%	2.3%	1.5%	2.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	94.0%	2.1%	2.1%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2012	93.8%	2.0%	1.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.6%
2013	94.8%	1.9%	1.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2014	94.0%	1.8%	1.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%
2015	95.0%	1.1%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.7%
2016	96.0%	0.4%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%
2017	95.3%	0.6%	1.5%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2018	94.7%	0.9%	1.1%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2019	96.4%	0.8%	0.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	96.6%	1.3%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	95.8%	1.8%	0.1%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.5%	2.9%	0.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.4%	3.8%	0.6%	2.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.9%	5.7%	2.3%	2.2%	0.9%	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 2020 at 96.6%. Overall it fell from 93.5% in 2009 to 88.9% in 2024, down 4.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ben Hill County: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 5.7% in 2024, up 4.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Ben Hill County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ben Hill County?

The bars show when commuters in Ben Hill 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 Ben Hill County5.1% Georgia5.2%	5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Ben Hill County3.5% Georgia3.9%	3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Ben Hill County5.0% Georgia4.6%	5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Ben Hill County8.3% Georgia9.4%	8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Ben Hill County20.3% Georgia9.6%	20.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Ben Hill County13.5% Georgia14.9%	13.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Ben Hill County11.4% Georgia11.5%	11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Ben Hill County8.0% Georgia11.6%	8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Ben Hill County2.7% Georgia5.1%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Ben Hill County6.7% Georgia6.7%	6.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Ben Hill County3.3% Georgia3.1%	3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Ben Hill County1.6% Georgia1.4%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Ben Hill County6.4% Georgia6.4%	6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Ben Hill County4.2% Georgia6.7%	4.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ben Hill County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 20.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.6% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 13.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 53.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.3%) 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 Ben Hill 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 Ben Hill 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 Ben Hill 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	Ben Hill County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ben Hill County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Ben Hill County now leave 20 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 Ben Hill County has moved 15 minutes earlier.

How does Ben Hill County's commute time compare?

Metric	Ben Hill County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.7 min	23.6 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.7%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ben Hill County is 12.7 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 2.3% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau