Dawson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Dawson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dawson County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 259 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.4 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Dawson County would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,207 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)
Dawson County	31.0 min	62.1 min	259 hrs/yr	$8,018	1,114
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 31.0 minutes to get to work in Dawson County. That's 38% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 89% 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 14.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dawson County

• Car: 82.7%
• Worked at Home: 14.7%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 0.8%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Dawson County: 8.7 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Dawson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dawson 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
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• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	90.4%	7.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.1%	7.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	88.2%	9.5%	1.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.2%	9.7%	1.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	90.3%	7.8%	1.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.5%	6.9%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.2%	7.7%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	91.6%	7.2%	0.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	90.8%	7.8%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.0%	8.5%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.2%	9.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.3%	8.7%	1.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.4%	9.1%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.0%	13.7%	1.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	81.8%	15.5%	1.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	82.7%	14.7%	1.5%	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 was highest in 2016 at 91.6% and lowest in 2023 at 81.8%. Overall it fell from 90.4% in 2009 to 82.7% in 2024, down 7.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Dawson County: its share of workers rose from 7.5% in 2009 to 14.7% in 2024, up 7.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Dawson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dawson County?

The bars show when commuters in Dawson 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 Dawson County4.6% Georgia5.2%	4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Dawson County3.5% Georgia3.9%	3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Dawson County5.7% Georgia4.6%	5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Dawson County12.8% Georgia9.4%	12.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Dawson County13.3% Georgia9.6%	13.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Dawson County16.1% Georgia14.9%	16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Dawson County10.8% Georgia11.5%	10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Dawson County9.5% Georgia11.6%	9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Dawson County3.2% Georgia5.1%	3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Dawson County8.6% Georgia6.7%	8.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Dawson County1.8% Georgia3.1%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Dawson County0.5% Georgia1.4%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Dawson County3.5% Georgia6.4%	3.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Dawson County6.0% Georgia6.7%	6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dawson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 13.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 49.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.5%) 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 Dawson 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 Dawson 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 Dawson 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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• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Dawson County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dawson County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Dawson County now leave 19 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Dawson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Dawson County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.0 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	14.7%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Dawson County is 31.0 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 1.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau