Chattahoochee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Chattahoochee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chattahoochee County spend about 17 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 72 hours, about 3.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 64% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 15.0 minutes.

Chattahoochee County holds about 0.1% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Chattahoochee County would save about 29 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $889 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)
Chattahoochee County	8.6 min	17.2 min	72 hrs/yr	$2,222	531
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 8.6 minutes to get to work in Chattahoochee County. That's 62% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chattahoochee County

• Car: 68.9%
• Walked: 16.5% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 8.7%
• Public Transportation: 5.4% unusually high
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually common in Chattahoochee County: 12.8 times more than the Georgia average (16.5% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is unusually common in Chattahoochee County: 4.8 times more than the Georgia average (5.4% vs 1.1%).

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

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

Chattahoochee County stands out for active commuting: 16.5% of workers walk or bike to work, 11.4 times the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Chattahoochee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chattahoochee 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	50.5%	2.8%	44.5%	0.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.8%
2010	55.1%	2.6%	39.2%	0.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2011	59.3%	5.7%	32.9%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	1.0%
2012	60.3%	6.9%	29.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	1.9%
2013	59.4%	10.5%	25.3%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	2.1%
2014	58.9%	9.7%	27.2%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	2.0%
2015	55.2%	11.2%	31.7%	0.3%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%
2016	54.1%	11.5%	32.5%	0.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%
2017	58.7%	9.8%	29.2%	0.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2018	59.1%	7.0%	32.6%	0.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	58.6%	12.3%	27.5%	0.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	65.1%	16.5%	15.5%	0.9%	1.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	68.7%	22.0%	6.8%	0.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	65.0%	23.2%	6.3%	4.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	63.0%	24.0%	7.0%	5.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	68.9%	16.5%	8.7%	5.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share rose from 50.5% in 2009 to 68.9% in 2024, up 18.4 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Chattahoochee County: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 16.5% in 2024, up 13.7 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 44.5% to 8.7% of workers (down 35.8 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 24.0% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 16.5%.

Commute Start Times in Chattahoochee County

• 🛌 Hitting SnoozeThe biggest shift to later mornings among Georgia's 159 counties: the typical start is 39 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chattahoochee County?

The bars show when commuters in Chattahoochee 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 Chattahoochee County6.5% Georgia5.2%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Chattahoochee County4.1% Georgia3.9%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Chattahoochee County7.1% Georgia4.6%	7.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Chattahoochee County10.9% Georgia9.4%	10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Chattahoochee County9.8% Georgia9.6%	9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Chattahoochee County9.4% Georgia14.9%	9.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Chattahoochee County11.8% Georgia11.5%	11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Chattahoochee County9.4% Georgia11.6%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Chattahoochee County8.6% Georgia5.1%	8.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Chattahoochee County10.3% Georgia6.7%	10.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Chattahoochee County1.0% Georgia3.1%	1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Chattahoochee County1.0% Georgia1.4%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Chattahoochee County3.8% Georgia6.4%	3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Chattahoochee County6.3% Georgia6.7%	6.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chattahoochee County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 11.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 17.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 40.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.4%) 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 Chattahoochee 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 Chattahoochee 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 Chattahoochee 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Chattahoochee County	Georgia	United States
2009	6:57 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:03 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	5:58 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:03 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	5:59 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:02 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chattahoochee County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 39 minutes later than in 2009 (6:57 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Chattahoochee County now leave 2 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 Chattahoochee County has moved 77 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Chattahoochee County in the whole series.

How does Chattahoochee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Chattahoochee County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.6 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	8.7%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	16.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	5.4%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chattahoochee County is 8.6 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

5.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.1% in Georgia. 16.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau