Douglasville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Douglasville, 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 Douglasville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Douglasville spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 254 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.9 minutes.

Douglasville 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 Douglasville would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,154 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)
Douglasville	30.5 min	61.0 min	254 hrs/yr	$7,884	2,836
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.

Douglasville Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.5 minutes to get to work in Douglasville. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 13.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Douglasville

Biking is unusually rare in Douglasville: 41.1 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Douglasville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Douglasville 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.3%	3.6%	0.7%	1.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	92.5%	4.2%	1.6%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	92.6%	4.6%	1.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	92.8%	4.2%	1.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	90.9%	5.9%	1.3%	0.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	90.7%	6.2%	1.3%	0.6%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	89.6%	6.1%	0.6%	2.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.1%	6.9%	0.6%	1.9%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	88.9%	6.7%	0.6%	1.4%	2.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	88.9%	6.5%	0.6%	1.4%	2.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	89.0%	6.8%	0.8%	1.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	89.8%	8.1%	0.7%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	87.9%	8.8%	0.7%	1.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	85.6%	11.6%	0.8%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.8%	11.7%	1.6%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	82.5%	13.7%	1.4%	1.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.3% in 2009 to 82.5% in 2024, down 10.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Douglasville: its share of workers rose from 3.6% in 2009 to 13.7% in 2024, up 10.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Douglasville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Douglasville?

The bars show when commuters in Douglasville 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		4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		3.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Douglasville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 16.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 42.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.5%) 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 Douglasville, 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 Douglasville 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 Douglasville 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	Douglasville	Georgia	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Douglasville were on the road by 7:21 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:26 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Douglasville now leave 17 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 Douglasville has moved 8 minutes earlier.

How does Douglasville's commute time compare?

Metric	Douglasville	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.5 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	13.7%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Douglasville is 30.5 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

1.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.1% in Georgia. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Douglasville, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Douglasville, GA compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Douglasville, GA	31,131	30.5 min #1/2	13.7% #2/2	7:21 AM #1/2
Mableton, GA	78,547	30.6 min	19.6%	7:28 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Douglasville, Georgia.

Is commuting expensive in Douglasville, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 254 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,884 at a typical national wage. That's 29% more than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Douglasville, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Douglasville, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.