Early County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Early County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Early County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.3 minutes.

Early County holds about 0.1% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Early County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,693 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)
Early County	16.4 min	32.8 min	137 hrs/yr	$4,232	283
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 16.4 minutes to get to work in Early County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Early County

• Car: 93.5%
• Worked at Home: 3.0% unusually low
• Walked: 1.9%
• Other: 1.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Early County, versus 0.1% in Georgia.

Public transit is unusually rare in Early County: 3.5 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.1%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Early County: 5.3 times less than the Georgia average (3.0% vs 15.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Early County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Early 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
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.6%	0.8%	0.6%	3.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	93.7%	0.9%	1.0%	2.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2011	93.1%	1.8%	0.8%	3.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.9%	1.5%	0.9%	3.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.4%	1.3%	0.8%	3.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.0%	1.5%	0.7%	3.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.1%	1.7%	0.4%	2.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.5%	1.1%	0.8%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.9%	0.3%	1.3%	2.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.5%	0.5%	2.4%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	96.2%	0.1%	1.6%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	94.6%	0.5%	2.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.6%	2.8%	2.5%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.6%	4.0%	1.9%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.7%	3.1%	2.0%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.5%	3.0%	1.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	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 2019 at 96.2% and lowest in 2022 at 91.6%. Overall it fell from 94.6% in 2009 to 93.5% in 2024, down 1.1 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Early County: its share of workers rose from 0.8% in 2009 to 3.0% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 1.5% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Early County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Early County?

The bars show when commuters in Early 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 Early County5.0% Georgia5.2%	5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Early County3.3% Georgia3.9%	3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Early County2.7% Georgia4.6%	2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Early County7.3% Georgia9.4%	7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Early County9.6% Georgia9.6%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Early County21.5% Georgia14.9%	21.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Early County14.9% Georgia11.5%	14.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Early County12.5% Georgia11.6%	12.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Early County3.0% Georgia5.1%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Early County4.1% Georgia6.7%	4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Early County2.9% Georgia3.1%	2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Early County2.8% Georgia1.4%	2.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Early County2.4% Georgia6.4%	2.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Early County8.1% Georgia6.7%	8.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Early County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 11.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 58.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.3%) 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 Early 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 Early 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 Early 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.

• Early County
• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Early County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Early County were on the road by 7:31 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:30 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Early County now leave 7 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Early County's commute time compare?

Metric	Early County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.4 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.0%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Early County is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 1.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau