Coffee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Coffee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Coffee County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 131 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 33% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.9 minutes.

Coffee County holds about 0.4% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Coffee County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,630 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)
Coffee County	15.8 min	31.6 min	131 hrs/yr	$4,076	472
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 15.8 minutes to get to work in Coffee County. That's 30% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Coffee County

• Car: 90.6%
• Worked at Home: 5.6%
• Other: 1.7%
• Walked: 1.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Coffee County: 3.7 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Coffee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Coffee 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
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.0%	1.9%	1.0%	5.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.1%	2.0%	0.9%	4.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.1%	1.9%	0.8%	4.5%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.2%	2.1%	0.5%	4.5%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.8%	2.8%	0.9%	2.8%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.8%	2.8%	0.8%	1.7%	0.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	93.5%	2.3%	0.9%	1.5%	0.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	94.2%	2.8%	0.7%	1.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	94.7%	2.3%	0.7%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	95.4%	1.5%	0.3%	2.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.6%	1.4%	0.9%	3.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	92.4%	1.8%	0.5%	4.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2021	92.2%	1.6%	0.7%	5.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	91.2%	2.2%	1.5%	4.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	90.1%	3.1%	2.6%	3.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	90.6%	5.6%	1.7%	1.7%	0.3%	0.2%	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 2018 at 95.4% and lowest in 2023 at 90.1%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 91.0% in 2009 and 90.6% in 2024. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Coffee County: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 5.6% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Coffee County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Coffee County?

The bars show when commuters in Coffee 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 Coffee County7.2% Georgia5.2%	7.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Coffee County4.0% Georgia3.9%	4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Coffee County3.6% Georgia4.6%	3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Coffee County10.9% Georgia9.4%	10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Coffee County12.1% Georgia9.6%	12.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Coffee County16.5% Georgia14.9%	16.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Coffee County11.8% Georgia11.5%	11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Coffee County11.5% Georgia11.6%	11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Coffee County3.0% Georgia5.1%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Coffee County3.6% Georgia6.7%	3.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Coffee County1.7% Georgia3.1%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Coffee County1.2% Georgia1.4%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Coffee County4.4% Georgia6.4%	4.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Coffee County8.4% Georgia6.7%	8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Coffee County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 14.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 51.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.5%) 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 Coffee 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 Coffee 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 Coffee 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.

• Coffee County
• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Coffee County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 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	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Coffee County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:30 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Coffee County now leave 16 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 Coffee County has moved 5 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Coffee County in the whole series.

How does Coffee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Coffee County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.8 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Coffee County is 15.8 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 1.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau