Candler-McAfee Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Candler-McAfee, 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 Candler-McAfee: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Candler-McAfee spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 257 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.1 minutes.

Candler-McAfee holds about 0.2% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Candler-McAfee would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,181 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)
Candler-McAfee	30.8 min	61.6 min	257 hrs/yr	$7,954	4,499
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.

Candler-McAfee Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.8 minutes to get to work in Candler-McAfee. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 20.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Candler-McAfee

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Candler-McAfee, versus 0.1% in Georgia.

Public transit is unusually common in Candler-McAfee: 5.2 times more than the Georgia average (5.8% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Candler-McAfee: 5.0 times more than the Georgia average (2.1% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Candler-McAfee: 21664.1 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Candler-McAfee, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Candler-McAfee 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	78.8%	1.7%	16.2%	0.0%	1.4%	1.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	80.5%	1.9%	14.2%	0.0%	1.4%	1.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	81.8%	3.0%	12.5%	0.0%	0.6%	1.8%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	80.2%	3.4%	13.0%	0.3%	0.6%	2.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	75.6%	4.3%	16.2%	0.3%	1.4%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	73.2%	5.0%	18.0%	0.3%	1.6%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	72.1%	2.9%	20.6%	0.3%	1.9%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	73.3%	3.3%	19.8%	0.3%	1.6%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	76.6%	3.8%	16.4%	0.0%	1.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	74.7%	5.0%	16.5%	0.2%	1.5%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	77.5%	4.8%	13.5%	0.2%	1.7%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	79.3%	6.8%	10.4%	0.2%	1.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	76.2%	10.2%	8.8%	0.2%	2.8%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	73.4%	13.8%	8.7%	0.4%	2.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	71.5%	18.6%	5.6%	1.6%	2.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	68.7%	20.8%	5.8%	2.1%	1.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 81.8%. Overall it fell from 78.8% in 2009 to 68.7% in 2024, down 10.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Candler-McAfee: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 20.8% in 2024, up 19.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 16.2% to 5.8% of workers (down 10.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Candler-McAfee

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Candler-McAfee?

The bars show when commuters in Candler-McAfee 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		7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		3.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Candler-McAfee is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 13.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 45.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.9%) 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 Candler-McAfee, 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 Candler-McAfee 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 Candler-McAfee 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	Candler-McAfee	Georgia	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:50 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Candler-McAfee were on the road by 7:33 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Candler-McAfee now leave 5 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 Candler-McAfee has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Candler-McAfee's commute time compare?

Metric	Candler-McAfee	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.8 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	20.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	5.8%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Candler-McAfee is 30.8 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

5.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Candler-McAfee, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Candler-McAfee, GA compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Candler-McAfee, GA	21,138	30.8 min #2/2	20.8% #2/2	7:33 AM #1/2
Decatur, GA	24,556	24.0 min	37.3%	8:15 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Candler-McAfee, Georgia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Candler-McAfee, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 257 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,954 at a typical national wage. That's 30% more than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Candler-McAfee, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Candler-McAfee, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Candler-McAfee, Georgia?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 5.8% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Georgia, making it a realistic option for many workers.

How much time do residents in Candler-McAfee, Georgia save by working from home?

About 20.8% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Candler-McAfee would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,181 at the same national wage assumption used above.