Berrien County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Berrien County, 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 Berrien County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Berrien County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 185 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Berrien 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 Berrien County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,293 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)
Berrien County	22.2 min	44.4 min	185 hrs/yr	$5,732	438
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.

Commute Time Map: Georgia Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Georgia

Chattahoochee County (8.6 min)
Ben Hill County (12.7 min)
Tift County (15.8 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Georgia

Talbot County (40.8 min)
McIntosh County (37.7 min)
Paulding County (36.4 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Berrien County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.2 minutes to get to work in Berrien County. That's 1% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 7.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Berrien County

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

Biking is unusually common in Berrien County: 3.4 times more than the Georgia average (0.5% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Berrien County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Berrien 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.

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	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	91.9%	3.4%	1.1%	2.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2010	90.5%	4.9%	1.2%	2.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2011	90.6%	6.4%	1.3%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	91.3%	6.1%	1.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.7%	3.4%	2.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.7%	3.4%	1.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	92.9%	2.4%	2.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	94.3%	1.4%	2.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	94.1%	2.3%	1.6%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	94.6%	2.2%	1.1%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%
2019	94.5%	2.3%	1.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2020	96.4%	1.8%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	94.2%	3.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2022	92.7%	4.6%	1.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2023	89.7%	5.4%	3.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2024	87.2%	7.4%	3.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	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 96.4%. Overall it fell from 91.9% in 2009 to 87.2% in 2024, down 4.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Berrien County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 7.4% in 2024, up 4.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Public transit overtook taking a taxi to become the 5th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Berrien County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Berrien County?

The bars show when commuters in Berrien 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		7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		19.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Berrien County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 21.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 51.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.3%) 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 Berrien 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 Berrien 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 Berrien 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Berrien County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:08 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Berrien County were on the road by 7:08 AM, 23 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:31 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Berrien 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 Berrien County has moved 11 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Berrien County in the whole series.

How does Berrien County's commute time compare?

Metric	Berrien County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.2 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	7.4%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Berrien County is 22.2 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 3.3% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Berrien County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Berrien County, GA is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 18,352 residents against a local median of 10,221. The measure that sets Berrien County, GA apart most is work from home: 7.4%, 50% above the local median of 4.9%.

The counties themselves spread 4.8% on work from home, so Berrien County, GA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Berrien County, GA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Berrien County, GA	18,352	22.2 min #3/6	7.4% #2/6	7:08 AM #3/6
Cook County, GA	17,532	22.6 min	2.8%	7:24 AM
Lanier County, GA	10,221	26.4 min	7.5%	7:17 AM
Irwin County, GA	9,285	18.2 min	4.9%	7:07 AM
Tift County, GA	41,438	15.8 min	5.0%	7:35 AM
Atkinson County, GA	8,336	23.7 min	3.1%	6:50 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Berrien County, Georgia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Berrien County, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 185 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,732 at a typical national wage. That's 6% less than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Berrien County, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Berrien County, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Georgia?

Among counties in Georgia, the shortest average commutes are in Chattahoochee County (8.6 min), Ben Hill County (12.7 min), Tift County (15.8 min). The longest are in Talbot County (40.8 min), McIntosh County (37.7 min), Paulding County (36.4 min).