Effingham County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Effingham County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Effingham 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.

Effingham County holds about 0.6% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Effingham County would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,232 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)
Effingham County	31.3 min	62.6 min	261 hrs/yr	$8,080	1,825
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 31.3 minutes to get to work in Effingham 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 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Effingham County

• Car: 91.5%
• Worked at Home: 6.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.8%
• Other: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Effingham County: 3.2 times less than the Georgia average (0.4% vs 1.3%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Effingham County: 3.2 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Effingham County: just 0.4%, 3.2 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Effingham County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Effingham 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	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	95.5%	2.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.7%	3.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.3%	3.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.0%	4.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.5%	4.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.8%	3.7%	0.2%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.5%	3.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.3%	2.4%	0.1%	1.3%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.3%	2.1%	0.2%	1.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.7%	2.7%	0.1%	1.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.6%	2.9%	0.1%	1.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.1%	3.1%	0.4%	1.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.7%	3.4%	0.4%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.3%	4.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	93.5%	4.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.5%	6.5%	0.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 95.5% in 2009 to 91.5% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Effingham County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 4.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Effingham County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Effingham County?

The bars show when commuters in Effingham 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 Effingham County8.0% Georgia5.2%	8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Effingham County6.4% Georgia3.9%	6.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Effingham County7.8% Georgia4.6%	7.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Effingham County10.8% Georgia9.4%	10.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Effingham County11.7% Georgia9.6%	11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Effingham County15.6% Georgia14.9%	15.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Effingham County9.4% Georgia11.5%	9.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Effingham County8.8% Georgia11.6%	8.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Effingham County1.1% Georgia5.1%	1.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Effingham County3.8% Georgia6.7%	3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Effingham County1.6% Georgia3.1%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Effingham County0.4% Georgia1.4%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Effingham County6.2% Georgia6.4%	6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Effingham County8.6% Georgia6.7%	8.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Effingham 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: 22.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 45.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.5%) 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 Effingham 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 Effingham 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 Effingham 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	Effingham County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:09 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Effingham County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:11 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Effingham County now leave 28 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 Effingham County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Effingham County's commute time compare?

Metric	Effingham 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.5%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	1.1%	3.2%

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

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau