Dade County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Dade County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dade County spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 220 hours, about 9.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.

Dade County holds about 0.1% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Dade County would save about 88 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,731 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)
Dade County	26.4 min	52.9 min	220 hrs/yr	$6,827	722
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

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On average, it takes 26.4 minutes to get to work in Dade County. That's 18% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dade County

• Car: 84.8%
• Worked at Home: 11.3%
• Walked: 2.8%
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Dade County: 6.2 times less than the Georgia average (0.2% vs 1.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Dade County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dade 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	91.0%	4.6%	3.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.6%	6.4%	2.8%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	87.0%	8.5%	3.7%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	85.0%	10.5%	3.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	86.6%	8.2%	4.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	87.7%	6.6%	5.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	87.0%	7.2%	5.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	87.0%	5.7%	6.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	88.2%	3.9%	7.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	86.7%	5.2%	7.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.1%	5.6%	6.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	88.1%	4.7%	6.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.6%	6.4%	5.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	85.5%	9.9%	3.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.4%	13.0%	3.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.8%	11.3%	2.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2023 at 82.4%. Overall it fell from 91.0% in 2009 to 84.8% in 2024, down 6.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Dade County: its share of workers rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 11.3% in 2024, up 6.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 7.1% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 2.8%.

Commute Start Times in Dade County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dade County?

The bars show when commuters in Dade 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 Dade County8.3% Georgia5.2%	8.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Dade County3.9% Georgia3.9%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Dade County2.9% Georgia4.6%	2.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Dade County8.5% Georgia9.4%	8.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Dade County8.0% Georgia9.6%	8.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Dade County15.1% Georgia14.9%	15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Dade County15.3% Georgia11.5%	15.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Dade County9.5% Georgia11.6%	9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Dade County5.3% Georgia5.1%	5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Dade County5.3% Georgia6.7%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Dade County0.8% Georgia3.1%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Dade County0.0% Georgia1.4%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Dade County9.7% Georgia6.4%	9.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Dade County7.4% Georgia6.7%	7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dade County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 15.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 47.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.2%) 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 Dade 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 Dade 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 Dade 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.

• Dade County
• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Dade County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dade County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Dade County now leave 1 minute earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Dade County's commute time compare?

Metric	Dade County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.4 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.3%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.8%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Dade County is 26.4 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 2.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau