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Brooks County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Brooks County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brooks County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 186 hours, about 7.8 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 1.3 minutes.

Brooks 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 Brooks County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,306 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)
Brooks County 22.3 min 44.6 min 186 hrs/yr $5,766 708
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
  1. Chattahoochee County (8.6 min)
  2. Ben Hill County (12.7 min)
  3. Tift County (15.8 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Georgia
  1. Talbot County (40.8 min)
  2. McIntosh County (37.7 min)
  3. Paulding County (36.4 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Brooks County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.3 minutes to get to work in Brooks County. That's about the same as 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 5.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brooks County

  • Car: 91.1%
  • Worked at Home: 5.3%
  • Motorcycle: 1.7% unusually high
  • Other: 0.9%
  • Walked: 0.8%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Brooks County: 19.1 times more than the Georgia average (1.7% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Brooks County: 14.3 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Brooks County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brooks 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 Motorcycle Other Walked Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 90.7% 5.2% 0.0% 1.9% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 1.1%
2010 91.9% 5.1% 0.0% 2.3% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 94.2% 4.6% 0.0% 0.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 92.5% 5.8% 0.0% 1.1% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 91.3% 7.2% 0.0% 0.7% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 90.7% 7.4% 0.0% 1.2% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 91.3% 6.5% 0.0% 1.3% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 91.4% 6.4% 0.0% 1.1% 0.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1%
2017 91.8% 4.7% 0.0% 2.1% 0.7% 0.6% 0.0% 0.2%
2018 89.5% 4.1% 0.0% 1.7% 3.5% 0.7% 0.0% 0.4%
2019 90.6% 2.7% 0.0% 1.7% 4.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.2%
2020 88.7% 3.8% 0.0% 2.7% 3.9% 0.5% 0.0% 0.3%
2021 88.9% 3.6% 0.0% 1.8% 5.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 92.9% 3.5% 0.0% 0.3% 3.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 92.4% 4.1% 1.7% 0.9% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 91.1% 5.3% 1.7% 0.9% 0.8% 0.1% 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 2011 at 94.2% and lowest in 2020 at 88.7%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 90.7% in 2009 and 91.1% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Riding a motorcycle gained the most ground in Brooks County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 1.7% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Riding a motorcycle overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 5.1% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Brooks County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brooks County?

The bars show when commuters in Brooks 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
3.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
20.2%
6:30-6:59 AM
14.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Brooks County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 20.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.4% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 10.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 51.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.0%) 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 Brooks 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 Brooks 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 Brooks 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 Brooks County Georgia United States
2009 7:24 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:26 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:24 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:18 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:19 AM 7:37 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:20 AM 7:37 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:21 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:19 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:19 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:23 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:24 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:24 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:22 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:18 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:10 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:08 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brooks County were on the road by 7:08 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Brooks County now leave 29 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 Brooks County has moved 16 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Brooks County in the whole series.

How does Brooks County's commute time compare?

Metric Brooks County Georgia US Average
Avg. Commute Time 22.3 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 5.3% 15.9% 15.0%
Walked 0.8% 1.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.1% 3.2%

The average commute time in Brooks County is 22.3 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Brooks County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Brooks County, GA is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 16,293 residents against a local median of 45,777. Brooks County, GA's one-way commute, at 22.3 min, runs 27% above the 17.6 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 6.2 min on one-way commute, so Brooks County, GA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Brooks County, GA has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Brooks County, GA 16,293 22.3 min #5/6 5.3% #4/6 7:08 AM #1/6
Lowndes County, GA 119,965 17.6 min 6.5% 7:34 AM
Thomas County, GA 45,777 16.5 min 7.8% 7:31 AM
Cook County, GA 17,532 22.6 min 2.8% 7:24 AM
Colquitt County, GA 46,224 17.5 min 5.9% 7:15 AM
Madison County, FL 18,089 21.5 min 4.7% 7:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Brooks County, Georgia.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Brooks County, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 186 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,766 at a typical national wage. That's 6% less than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Brooks County, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Brooks County, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Brooks County, Georgia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Georgia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).