Bryan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bryan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bryan County spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 273 hours, about 11.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 38% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 9.1 minutes.

Bryan County holds about 0.4% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bryan County would save about 109 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,381 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)
Bryan County	32.7 min	65.4 min	273 hrs/yr	$8,453	1,202
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

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On average, it takes 32.7 minutes to get to work in Bryan County. That's 46% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bryan County

• Car: 87.5%
• Worked at Home: 9.4%
• Other: 1.3%
• Bicycle: 0.7% unusually high
• Walked: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Bryan County: 4.5 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.1%).

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

Biking is unusually common in Bryan County: 4.6 times more than the Georgia average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Bryan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bryan 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
• Other
• Bicycle
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Taxi

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Bicycle	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	89.4%	3.8%	4.6%	0.1%	1.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	89.9%	3.9%	4.2%	0.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%
2011	92.0%	3.4%	2.7%	0.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	92.5%	3.1%	2.5%	0.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%
2013	93.2%	2.5%	2.2%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	92.8%	2.2%	2.3%	0.8%	1.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	93.9%	1.9%	1.3%	0.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	93.7%	2.0%	1.2%	0.7%	2.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	93.3%	2.6%	1.7%	0.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	92.6%	3.2%	2.0%	0.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	92.4%	3.7%	2.0%	0.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2020	92.7%	4.1%	1.8%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2021	90.9%	5.2%	1.8%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2022	90.0%	7.2%	1.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	87.4%	9.4%	1.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2024	87.5%	9.4%	1.3%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2015 at 93.9% and lowest in 2023 at 87.4%. Overall it fell from 89.4% in 2009 to 87.5% in 2024, down 1.9 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bryan County: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 9.4% in 2024, up 5.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Bryan County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bryan County?

The bars show when commuters in Bryan 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 Bryan County6.2% Georgia5.2%	6.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bryan County4.7% Georgia3.9%	4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bryan County9.6% Georgia4.6%	9.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bryan County12.2% Georgia9.4%	12.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bryan County10.9% Georgia9.6%	10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bryan County17.0% Georgia14.9%	17.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bryan County7.6% Georgia11.5%	7.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bryan County10.3% Georgia11.6%	10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bryan County2.3% Georgia5.1%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bryan County4.0% Georgia6.7%	4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bryan County1.4% Georgia3.1%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bryan County1.3% Georgia1.4%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bryan County6.1% Georgia6.4%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bryan County6.4% Georgia6.7%	6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bryan County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 20.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 45.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.1%) 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 Bryan 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 Bryan 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 Bryan 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.

• Bryan County
• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bryan County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:14 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bryan County were on the road by 7:11 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:17 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Bryan County now leave 27 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 Bryan County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Bryan County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bryan County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.7 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.4%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bryan County is 32.7 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau