Evans County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Evans County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Evans County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 182 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Evans 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 Evans County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,255 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)
Evans County	21.8 min	43.6 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,637	699
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 21.8 minutes to get to work in Evans County. That's 3% shorter 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 walking. About 3.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Evans County

• Car: 88.3%
• Walked: 6.3% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 3.6% unusually low
• Other: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually common in Evans County: 4.8 times more than the Georgia average (6.3% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Evans County: 5.0 times less than the Georgia average (0.2% vs 1.1%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Evans County: 4.4 times less than the Georgia average (3.6% vs 15.9%).

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

Evans County stands out for active commuting: 6.3% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.3 times the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Evans County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Evans 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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• Walked
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• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	85.4%	1.2%	0.9%	12.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	85.2%	1.0%	2.2%	11.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	85.4%	1.4%	2.5%	10.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	86.2%	1.1%	3.1%	9.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	86.8%	1.5%	5.5%	6.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	85.0%	1.7%	6.3%	6.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	84.7%	2.0%	5.3%	7.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	86.7%	1.1%	4.6%	6.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	85.4%	1.1%	4.9%	7.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	87.1%	1.3%	3.2%	7.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	88.4%	0.8%	3.0%	7.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	89.8%	1.6%	2.8%	5.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	89.5%	2.6%	3.1%	4.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.7%	5.2%	3.7%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.8%	5.6%	2.5%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.3%	6.3%	3.6%	1.5%	0.2%	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 2020 at 89.8% and lowest in 2015 at 84.7%. Overall it rose from 85.4% in 2009 to 88.3% in 2024, up 2.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Evans County: its share of workers rose from 1.2% in 2009 to 6.3% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home peaked at 6.3% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 3.6%.

Commute Start Times in Evans County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Evans County?

The bars show when commuters in Evans 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 Evans County11.5% Georgia5.2%	11.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Evans County4.1% Georgia3.9%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Evans County4.7% Georgia4.6%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Evans County13.2% Georgia9.4%	13.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Evans County9.6% Georgia9.6%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Evans County14.0% Georgia14.9%	14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Evans County12.6% Georgia11.5%	12.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Evans County11.6% Georgia11.6%	11.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Evans County1.9% Georgia5.1%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Evans County4.2% Georgia6.7%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Evans County1.5% Georgia3.1%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Evans County0.0% Georgia1.4%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Evans County6.0% Georgia6.4%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Evans County5.1% Georgia6.7%	5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Evans County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 20.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 47.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.9%) 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 Evans 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 Evans 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 Evans 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Evans County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 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	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:02 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:00 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:04 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:07 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Evans County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Evans County now leave 23 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 Evans County has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Evans County's commute time compare?

Metric	Evans County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.8 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	3.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	6.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Evans County is 21.8 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 6.3% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau