Commuting in Dougherty 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 Dougherty County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Dougherty 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 141 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 6.7 minutes.
Dougherty County holds about 0.8% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Dougherty County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,754 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)
Dougherty County
17.0 min
33.9 min
141 hrs/yr
$4,385
996
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.
On average, it takes
17.0
minutes to get to work in
Dougherty County.
That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 93% 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 9.1% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Dougherty County
Car:
87.6%
Worked at Home:
9.1%
Walked:
1.5%
Other:
0.7%
Public Transportation:
0.7%
Motorcycle:
0.2%
Taxi:
0.1%
Bicycle:
0.1%
Commute Mode Trends in Dougherty County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Dougherty 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
Walked
Public Transportation
Other
Motorcycle
Taxi
Bicycle
2009
91.7%
2.8%
3.6%
0.9%
0.6%
0.1%
0.1%
0.2%
2010
92.5%
2.0%
3.4%
1.3%
0.4%
0.1%
0.1%
0.2%
2011
92.7%
1.9%
3.2%
1.1%
0.5%
0.2%
0.1%
0.2%
2012
92.3%
2.0%
3.4%
1.2%
0.5%
0.2%
0.2%
0.3%
2013
91.6%
2.6%
3.3%
1.5%
0.6%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
2014
91.0%
3.3%
3.1%
1.6%
0.7%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
2015
90.9%
3.7%
2.7%
1.9%
0.7%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
90.1%
4.3%
2.9%
1.9%
0.7%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
90.2%
4.4%
2.5%
2.2%
0.7%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
90.3%
4.4%
2.8%
1.6%
0.7%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2019
90.9%
4.0%
2.4%
1.7%
0.8%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2020
89.5%
4.6%
2.8%
1.5%
1.1%
0.3%
0.0%
0.2%
2021
90.0%
4.9%
2.1%
1.3%
1.3%
0.2%
0.0%
0.2%
2022
89.7%
5.5%
2.0%
1.3%
1.1%
0.2%
0.0%
0.2%
2023
87.8%
7.9%
1.4%
1.3%
1.1%
0.2%
0.0%
0.2%
2024
87.6%
9.1%
1.5%
0.7%
0.7%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 92.7%. Overall it fell from 91.7% in 2009 to 87.6% in 2024, down 4.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Dougherty County: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 9.1% in 2024, up 6.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.6% to 1.5% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2014 release and has stayed ahead since.
Public transit peaked at 2.2% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.
Commute Start Times in Dougherty County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dougherty County?
The bars show when commuters in Dougherty 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 AMDougherty County4.6%Georgia5.2%
4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMDougherty County2.6%Georgia3.9%
2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMDougherty County3.9%Georgia4.6%
3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMDougherty County5.8%Georgia9.4%
5.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMDougherty County11.8%Georgia9.6%
11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMDougherty County15.1%Georgia14.9%
15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMDougherty County19.3%Georgia11.5%
19.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMDougherty County12.1%Georgia11.6%
12.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMDougherty County4.7%Georgia5.1%
4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMDougherty County4.4%Georgia6.7%
4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMDougherty County2.8%Georgia3.1%
2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMDougherty County1.3%Georgia1.4%
1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMDougherty County5.0%Georgia6.4%
5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMDougherty County6.5%Georgia6.7%
6.5%
Dougherty CountyGeorgiaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Dougherty County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 11.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 58.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.0%) 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 Dougherty 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 Dougherty 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 Dougherty 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
Dougherty County
Georgia
United States
2009
7:44 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:45 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:46 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:44 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:41 AM
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:42 AM
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:41 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:41 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:42 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:44 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:46 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:48 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:44 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:40 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:39 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:40 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Dougherty County were on the road by 7:40 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Dougherty County now leave 2 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Dougherty County has moved 7 minutes earlier.
How does Dougherty County's commute time compare?
Metric
Dougherty County
Georgia
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
17.0 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
9.1%
15.9%
15.0%
Walked
1.5%
1.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.7%
1.1%
3.2%
The average commute time in Dougherty County is 17.0 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.
0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 1.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.
Dougherty County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Dougherty County, GA is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 83,091 residents against a local median of 20,451. Dougherty County, GA's one-way commute, at 17.0 min, runs 22% below the 21.7 min typical of the counties around it. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.
Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 9.1% against a local median of 7.5%, 21% above it. The counties themselves spread 5.6 min on one-way commute, so Dougherty County, GA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Dougherty County, GA has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Dougherty County, Georgia.
Is commuting expensive in Dougherty County, Georgia?
Commuters here spend an estimated 141 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,385 at a typical national wage. That's 28% less than the typical Georgia commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Dougherty County, Georgia?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Dougherty County, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.
How do commute times compare across 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).