Buford Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Buford, 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 Buford: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Buford spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 227 hours, about 9.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

Buford 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 Buford would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,820 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)
Buford	27.3 min	54.6 min	227 hrs/yr	$7,050	3,077
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.

Buford Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.3 minutes to get to work in Buford. That's 22% longer 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 16.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Buford

Walking is unusually rare in Buford: 4.0 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.3%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Buford: 3.7 times more than the Georgia average (1.6% vs 0.4%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Buford: just 0.4%, 3.4 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Buford, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Buford 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	Taxi	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.0%	6.9%	0.0%	0.6%	1.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	90.0%	6.6%	0.0%	0.7%	1.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	92.4%	5.2%	0.0%	0.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.2%	5.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.3%	4.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.8%	5.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%	1.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	89.0%	5.7%	0.0%	0.6%	2.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	89.7%	5.0%	0.0%	0.5%	2.5%	2.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	90.0%	4.4%	0.0%	0.5%	2.5%	2.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	89.8%	5.0%	0.1%	0.6%	2.5%	1.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	90.3%	5.4%	0.2%	0.7%	2.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	90.9%	6.3%	0.1%	0.5%	1.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	89.7%	8.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	87.1%	11.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	85.7%	12.2%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	80.1%	16.2%	1.6%	0.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 93.3%. Overall it fell from 90.0% in 2009 to 80.1% in 2024, down 9.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Buford: its share of workers rose from 6.9% in 2009 to 16.2% in 2024, up 9.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 2.3% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Buford

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Buford?

The bars show when commuters in Buford 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		5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Buford is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 12.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 49.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.1%) 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 Buford, 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 Buford 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 Buford 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	Buford	Georgia	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Buford were on the road by 7:34 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:28 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Buford now leave 4 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 Buford has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Buford's commute time compare?

Metric	Buford	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.3 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	16.2%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Buford is 27.3 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Buford, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Buford, GA compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Buford, GA	22,683	27.3 min #1/3	16.2% #3/3	7:34 AM #1/3
Sugar Hill, GA	21,657	30.8 min	25.9%	7:58 AM
Suwanee, GA	21,330	27.6 min	25.4%	7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Buford, Georgia.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Buford, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 227 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,050 at a typical national wage. That's 15% more than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Buford, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Buford, 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.