Decatur County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Decatur County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Decatur County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 143 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.5 minutes.

Decatur County holds about 0.3% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Decatur County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,771 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)
Decatur County	17.1 min	34.3 min	143 hrs/yr	$4,427	414
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 17.1 minutes to get to work in Decatur County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 92% 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 4.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Decatur County

• Car: 91.5%
• Worked at Home: 4.4% unusually low
• Other: 2.1%
• Bicycle: 0.7% unusually high
• Walked: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: 0.5% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Decatur County: 5.2 times more than the Georgia average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Decatur County: 4.8 times less than the Georgia average (0.2% vs 1.1%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Decatur County: 3.6 times less than the Georgia average (4.4% vs 15.9%).

Biking is unusually common in Decatur County: 4.6 times more than the Georgia average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Decatur County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Decatur 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Bicycle	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	88.7%	1.7%	7.1%	0.2%	1.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	89.5%	1.4%	6.4%	0.1%	1.4%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%
2011	88.9%	1.6%	6.9%	0.2%	1.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	88.3%	1.7%	6.7%	0.2%	1.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%
2013	89.8%	1.7%	6.1%	0.1%	1.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2014	91.1%	1.9%	4.6%	0.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.7%	0.3%
2015	91.1%	1.3%	5.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.1%	1.2%	0.3%
2016	91.9%	2.2%	4.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.6%	0.2%
2017	92.2%	2.2%	4.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%
2018	94.6%	1.5%	2.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.7%	0.4%
2019	94.4%	1.6%	1.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%	1.1%
2020	95.5%	1.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	1.1%
2021	95.6%	1.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.7%
2022	93.5%	2.1%	1.5%	0.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.6%
2023	92.6%	2.8%	1.5%	0.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.9%
2024	91.5%	4.4%	2.1%	0.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	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 95.6% and lowest in 2012 at 88.3%. Overall it rose from 88.7% in 2009 to 91.5% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Decatur County: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 4.4% in 2024, up 2.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Taking a taxi peaked at 1.1% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Decatur County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Decatur County?

The bars show when commuters in Decatur 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 Decatur County2.3% Georgia5.2%	2.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Decatur County3.4% Georgia3.9%	3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Decatur County4.6% Georgia4.6%	4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Decatur County7.3% Georgia9.4%	7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Decatur County14.4% Georgia9.6%	14.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Decatur County16.2% Georgia14.9%	16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Decatur County22.0% Georgia11.5%	22.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Decatur County8.4% Georgia11.6%	8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Decatur County2.7% Georgia5.1%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Decatur County5.2% Georgia6.7%	5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Decatur County3.5% Georgia3.1%	3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Decatur County1.7% Georgia1.4%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Decatur County1.8% Georgia6.4%	1.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Decatur County6.4% Georgia6.7%	6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Decatur County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 22.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 10.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 61.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.6%) 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 Decatur 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 Decatur 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 Decatur 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Decatur County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Decatur County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:30 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Decatur County now leave 6 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 Decatur County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Decatur County's commute time compare?

Metric	Decatur County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.1 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	4.4%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Decatur County is 17.1 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau