Charlton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Charlton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Charlton County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 183 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Charlton 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 Charlton County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,273 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)
Charlton County	22.0 min	44.0 min	183 hrs/yr	$5,683	422
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.

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On average, it takes 22.0 minutes to get to work in Charlton County. That's 2% shorter 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 2.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Charlton County

• Car: 96.8% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 2.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.6% unusually high
• Other: 0.3%
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Charlton County: 6.4 times more than the Georgia average (0.6% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 21% more common in Charlton County than the Georgia average (96.8% vs 79.8%).

Walking is unusually rare in Charlton County: 32.3 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Charlton County, versus 1.1% in Georgia.

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Charlton County: 7.3 times less than the Georgia average (2.2% vs 15.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Charlton County: 3.8 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Charlton County: just 0.1%, 18.1 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Charlton County, 2009-2024

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

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Year	Car	Worked at Home	Motorcycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Walked
2009	95.3%	1.0%	0.0%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2010	95.4%	0.6%	0.0%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2011	95.9%	0.4%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	1.3%
2012	96.0%	0.6%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	1.6%
2013	93.2%	1.2%	0.1%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2014	93.9%	2.6%	0.3%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2015	91.8%	4.3%	0.3%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.9%
2016	91.9%	4.8%	0.2%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%
2017	92.3%	4.4%	0.3%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2018	92.6%	4.7%	0.3%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2019	95.3%	2.3%	0.0%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	95.4%	3.1%	0.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	95.7%	3.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	96.9%	1.5%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	96.9%	2.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	96.8%	2.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	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 2022 at 96.9% and lowest in 2015 at 91.8%. Overall it rose from 95.3% in 2009 to 96.8% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Charlton County: its share of workers rose from 1.0% in 2009 to 2.2% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points.

Riding a motorcycle overtook biking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 4.8% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 2.2%.

Commute Start Times in Charlton County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Charlton County?

The bars show when commuters in Charlton 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 Charlton County11.0% Georgia5.2%	11.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Charlton County8.5% Georgia3.9%	8.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Charlton County6.9% Georgia4.6%	6.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Charlton County12.0% Georgia9.4%	12.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Charlton County7.9% Georgia9.6%	7.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Charlton County26.7% Georgia14.9%	26.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Charlton County6.1% Georgia11.5%	6.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Charlton County7.7% Georgia11.6%	7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Charlton County2.3% Georgia5.1%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Charlton County1.7% Georgia6.7%	1.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Charlton County2.0% Georgia3.1%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Charlton County0.7% Georgia1.4%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Charlton County2.1% Georgia6.4%	2.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Charlton County4.4% Georgia6.7%	4.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Charlton County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 26.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 26.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 48.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (10.9%) 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 Charlton 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 Charlton 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 Charlton 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.

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• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Charlton County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:07 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:04 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Charlton County were on the road by 7:04 AM, 18 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:22 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Charlton County now leave 34 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 Charlton County has moved 2 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Charlton County in the whole series.

How does Charlton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Charlton County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.0 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	2.2%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Charlton County is 22.0 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau