Burke County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Burke 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 Burke County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Burke County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 211 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.7 minutes.

Burke 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 Burke County would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,622 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)
Burke County	25.4 min	50.7 min	211 hrs/yr	$6,554	395
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

Burke County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 25.4 minutes to get to work in Burke County. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Burke County

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Burke County: 10.7 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Burke County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Burke 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.1%	2.2%	1.5%	1.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	93.4%	2.2%	1.1%	1.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	94.8%	2.0%	0.9%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2012	95.3%	1.8%	1.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	96.0%	1.6%	0.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	95.0%	1.8%	0.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.9%
2015	95.4%	2.1%	0.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2016	95.3%	2.4%	0.9%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	95.5%	2.7%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	93.2%	4.2%	0.4%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	93.3%	4.1%	0.8%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.3%	7.2%	0.9%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.5%	7.9%	1.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.8%	8.0%	2.2%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.6%	9.0%	2.0%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.3%	8.3%	1.9%	1.4%	0.1%	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 was highest in 2013 at 96.0% and lowest in 2023 at 86.6%. Overall it fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 88.3% in 2024, down 4.8 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Burke County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 8.3% in 2024, up 6.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.1% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Burke County

Dawn PatrolThe 3rd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Georgia's 159 counties: 27.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Burke County?

The bars show when commuters in Burke 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		13.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Burke County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 27.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 40.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.2%) 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 Burke 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 Burke 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 Burke 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	Burke County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:06 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:06 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:06 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:07 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Burke County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Burke County now leave 24 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 Burke County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Burke County's commute time compare?

Metric	Burke County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.4 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.3%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Burke County is 25.4 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 1.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Burke County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Burke County, GA is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 24,470 residents against a local median of 15,341. Nothing separates Burke County, GA sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 10% above the local median at 25.4 min against 23.1 min. Burke County, GA has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Burke County, GA	24,470	25.4 min #6/6	8.3% #4/6	7:14 AM #3/6
Jenkins County, GA	8,711	17.1 min	10.1%	7:11 AM
Richmond County, GA	206,056	18.7 min	9.1%	7:38 AM
Jefferson County, GA	15,341	23.2 min	3.0%	7:09 AM
Screven County, GA	14,130	23.6 min	7.1%	7:17 AM
Columbia County, GA	162,330	23.1 min	11.0%	7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Burke County, Georgia.

Is commuting expensive in Burke County, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 211 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,554 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Burke County, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Burke County, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Burke 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.

How do commute times compare across 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).