Chattooga County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Chattooga 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 Chattooga County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chattooga County spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 198 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.1 minutes.

Chattooga 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 Chattooga County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,457 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)
Chattooga County	23.8 min	47.6 min	198 hrs/yr	$6,143	637
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

Chattooga County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.8 minutes to get to work in Chattooga County. That's 6% longer 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 3.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chattooga County

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Chattooga County: 3.2 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.1%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Chattooga County: 4.1 times less than the Georgia average (3.9% vs 15.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Chattooga County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chattooga 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.8%	0.7%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.7%	1.2%	2.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	95.4%	1.3%	2.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	96.7%	1.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%
2013	96.3%	1.7%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2014	95.8%	1.7%	0.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	95.6%	1.8%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	95.4%	1.7%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	94.9%	1.7%	2.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	95.0%	1.4%	2.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	95.9%	1.6%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	97.0%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	95.7%	2.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	95.8%	2.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.7%	3.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.6%	3.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	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 2020 at 97.0%. Overall it fell from 96.8% in 2009 to 94.6% in 2024, down 2.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Chattooga County: its share of workers rose from 0.7% in 2009 to 3.9% in 2024, up 3.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 0.6% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

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

Commute Start Times in Chattooga County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chattooga County?

The bars show when commuters in Chattooga 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		1.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		13.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		22.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chattooga County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 11.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 52.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.4%) 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 Chattooga 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 Chattooga 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 Chattooga 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	Chattooga County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chattooga County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 20 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Chattooga County now leave 20 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 Chattooga County has moved 3 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Chattooga County in the whole series.

How does Chattooga County's commute time compare?

Metric	Chattooga County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.8 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.9%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chattooga County is about the same as in Georgia.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Chattooga County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Chattooga County, GA is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 25,036 residents against a local median of 68,750. Where Chattooga County, GA breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 49% below the local median of 7.5% at 3.9%.

The counties themselves spread 6.9% on work from home, so Chattooga County, GA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Chattooga County, GA has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Chattooga County, GA	25,036	23.8 min #3/6	3.9% #6/6	7:17 AM #3/6
Floyd County, GA	99,681	20.3 min	7.5%	7:38 AM
Walker County, GA	68,750	25.3 min	11.3%	7:27 AM
Cherokee County, AL	25,443	28.3 min	4.4%	7:05 AM
Dade County, GA	16,136	26.4 min	11.3%	7:36 AM
DeKalb County, AL	72,266	20.5 min	4.4%	7:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Chattooga County, Georgia.

Is living in Chattooga County, Georgia good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 198 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,143 at a typical national wage. That's 1% more than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Chattooga County, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Chattooga County, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Chattooga County, Georgia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Georgia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).