Douglas County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Douglas County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Douglas County spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 261 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.6 minutes.

Douglas County holds about 1.4% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 1.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Douglas County would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,231 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)
Douglas County	31.3 min	62.5 min	261 hrs/yr	$8,079	2,857
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 31.3 minutes to get to work in Douglas County. That's 40% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 92% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 15.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Douglas County

• Car: 82.1%
• Worked at Home: 15.2%
• Other: 1.1%
• Walked: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.6%
• Taxi: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1%

Commute Mode Trends in Douglas County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Douglas 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
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Walked
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.0%	3.6%	0.4%	0.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	93.3%	3.8%	0.5%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	92.8%	4.5%	0.5%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	92.6%	4.6%	0.5%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	91.9%	5.3%	0.7%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	92.4%	4.9%	0.8%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	91.6%	5.1%	1.2%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	92.2%	4.9%	1.3%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	92.1%	4.8%	1.6%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.4%	5.3%	1.6%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	91.0%	5.8%	1.6%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	90.5%	7.5%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	87.7%	9.5%	1.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	85.1%	12.1%	1.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.5%	12.7%	1.3%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	82.1%	15.2%	1.1%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 82.1% in 2024, down 11.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Douglas County: its share of workers rose from 3.6% in 2009 to 15.2% in 2024, up 11.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Douglas County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Douglas County?

The bars show when commuters in Douglas 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 Douglas County6.8% Georgia5.2%	6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Douglas County3.6% Georgia3.9%	3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Douglas County7.6% Georgia4.6%	7.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Douglas County10.9% Georgia9.4%	10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Douglas County9.2% Georgia9.6%	9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Douglas County15.6% Georgia14.9%	15.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Douglas County8.3% Georgia11.5%	8.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Douglas County9.1% Georgia11.6%	9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Douglas County3.1% Georgia5.1%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Douglas County5.3% Georgia6.7%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Douglas County2.9% Georgia3.1%	2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Douglas County2.3% Georgia1.4%	2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Douglas County7.8% Georgia6.4%	7.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Douglas County7.6% Georgia6.7%	7.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Douglas County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 17.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 42.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.8%) 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 Douglas 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 Douglas 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 Douglas 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.

• Douglas County
• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Douglas County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 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	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Douglas County were on the road by 7:23 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Douglas County now leave 15 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Douglas County's commute time compare?

Metric	Douglas County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.3 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.2%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Douglas County is 31.3 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau