Elbert County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Elbert County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Elbert County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 156 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Elbert County holds about 0.2% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Elbert County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,929 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)
Elbert County	18.7 min	37.3 min	156 hrs/yr	$4,822	882
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 18.7 minutes to get to work in Elbert County. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 78% of counties in Georgia

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 7.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Elbert County

• Car: 90.5%
• Worked at Home: 7.1%
• Walked: 1.8%
• Other: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is essentially absent in Elbert County, versus 1.1% in Georgia.

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

Biking is unusually rare in Elbert County: 23308650.3 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Elbert County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Elbert 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	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.9%	2.8%	1.5%	2.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.1%	2.4%	0.9%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.3%	3.0%	0.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.1%	3.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.2%	2.9%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	96.5%	2.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	96.1%	2.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	96.3%	2.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	96.1%	1.8%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	96.3%	1.2%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	95.7%	1.3%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	92.5%	3.9%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	90.2%	6.8%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	89.4%	7.4%	2.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2023	89.8%	7.9%	1.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.5%	7.1%	1.8%	0.4%	0.1%	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 2014 at 96.5% and lowest in 2022 at 89.4%. Overall it fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 90.5% in 2024, down 2.4 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Elbert County: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 7.1% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 3.1% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 1.8%.

Commute Start Times in Elbert County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Elbert County?

The bars show when commuters in Elbert 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 Elbert County4.0% Georgia5.2%	4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Elbert County3.2% Georgia3.9%	3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Elbert County4.9% Georgia4.6%	4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Elbert County13.8% Georgia9.4%	13.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Elbert County13.0% Georgia9.6%	13.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Elbert County18.7% Georgia14.9%	18.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Elbert County16.0% Georgia11.5%	16.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Elbert County5.8% Georgia11.6%	5.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Elbert County3.5% Georgia5.1%	3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Elbert County1.4% Georgia6.7%	1.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Elbert County1.1% Georgia3.1%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Elbert County1.3% Georgia1.4%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Elbert County7.2% Georgia6.4%	7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Elbert County6.1% Georgia6.7%	6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Elbert County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 12.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 53.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.1%) 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 Elbert 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 Elbert 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 Elbert 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	Elbert County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Elbert County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Elbert County now leave 20 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 Elbert County has moved 10 minutes earlier.

How does Elbert County's commute time compare?

Metric	Elbert County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.7 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	7.1%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Elbert County is 18.7 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 1.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau