Colquitt County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Colquitt 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 Colquitt County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Colquitt County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 145 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.2 minutes.

Colquitt 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 Colquitt County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,803 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)
Colquitt County	17.5 min	34.9 min	145 hrs/yr	$4,508	388
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

Colquitt County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.5 minutes to get to work in Colquitt County. That's 22% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 90% of 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 5.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Colquitt County

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Colquitt County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Colquitt 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.9%	2.9%	1.2%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2010	92.6%	3.3%	1.2%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2011	91.9%	3.2%	1.3%	2.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2012	91.9%	3.3%	1.2%	2.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2013	91.8%	3.6%	1.3%	2.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	91.7%	2.8%	1.8%	2.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	92.0%	2.7%	1.3%	2.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	90.1%	3.6%	1.9%	2.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	92.1%	3.5%	1.4%	1.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	92.4%	2.9%	1.2%	1.6%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	93.1%	2.4%	1.5%	1.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	91.9%	2.8%	2.0%	1.3%	1.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	93.6%	2.5%	1.3%	1.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.3%	4.2%	1.6%	1.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.6%	5.4%	3.0%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.8%	5.9%	2.3%	1.5%	0.5%	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 2021 at 93.6% and lowest in 2023 at 89.6%. Overall it fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 89.8% in 2024, down 3.1 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Colquitt County: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 5.9% in 2024, up 3.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 2.9% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 1.5%.

Commute Start Times in Colquitt County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Colquitt County?

The bars show when commuters in Colquitt 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		7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		14.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Colquitt County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 16.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 53.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.3%) 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 Colquitt 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 Colquitt 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 Colquitt 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	Colquitt County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Colquitt County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Colquitt County now leave 23 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 Colquitt County has moved 7 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Colquitt County in the whole series.

How does Colquitt County's commute time compare?

Metric	Colquitt County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.5 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	5.9%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.3%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Colquitt County is 17.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

2.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.1% in Georgia. 1.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Colquitt County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Colquitt County, GA is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 46,224 residents against a local median of 20,451. Colquitt County, GA's one-way commute, at 17.5 min, runs 22% below the 22.3 min typical of the counties around it. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 10.4 min on one-way commute, so Colquitt County, GA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Colquitt County, GA has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Colquitt County, GA	46,224	17.5 min #3/6	5.9% #3/6	7:15 AM #2/6
Cook County, GA	17,532	22.6 min	2.8%	7:24 AM
Thomas County, GA	45,777	16.5 min	7.8%	7:31 AM
Tift County, GA	41,438	15.8 min	5.0%	7:35 AM
Worth County, GA	20,451	26.1 min	6.0%	7:22 AM
Brooks County, GA	16,293	22.3 min	5.3%	7:08 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Colquitt County, Georgia.

Is commuting expensive in Colquitt County, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 145 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,508 at a typical national wage. That's 26% less than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Colquitt County, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Colquitt County, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

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).