Franklin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Franklin County, 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 Franklin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Franklin 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 185 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Franklin County holds about 0.2% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Franklin County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,293 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)
Franklin County	22.2 min	44.4 min	185 hrs/yr	$5,733	793
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Georgia

Chattahoochee County (8.6 min)
Ben Hill County (12.7 min)
Tift County (15.8 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Georgia

Talbot County (40.8 min)
McIntosh County (37.7 min)
Paulding County (36.4 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Franklin County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.2 minutes to get to work in Franklin County. That's 1% 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 9.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Franklin County

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Franklin County: 7.8 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Franklin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Franklin 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.

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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.2%	5.7%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	89.8%	5.5%	2.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	88.6%	6.4%	3.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	89.0%	5.9%	2.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	89.6%	5.7%	2.6%	1.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.1%	4.0%	2.4%	2.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.1%	4.8%	3.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	91.6%	4.1%	2.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	91.8%	4.3%	2.2%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	92.2%	3.9%	2.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	92.0%	4.3%	2.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	92.5%	4.3%	1.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	89.3%	8.3%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	90.4%	7.3%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.7%	8.6%	2.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.4%	9.6%	1.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2020 at 92.5%. Overall it fell from 91.2% in 2009 to 87.4% in 2024, down 3.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Franklin County: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 9.6% in 2024, up 3.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 3.3% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 1.8%.

Commute Start Times in Franklin County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Franklin County?

The bars show when commuters in Franklin 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		6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Franklin County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 16.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 47.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.8%) 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 Franklin 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 Franklin 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 Franklin 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Franklin County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Franklin County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Franklin County now leave 13 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 Franklin County has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Franklin County's commute time compare?

Metric	Franklin County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.2 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	9.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Franklin County is 22.2 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.1% 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

Franklin County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Franklin County, GA is typical in size for this group, 24,234 residents against a local median of 27,012, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Franklin County, GA sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 10% above the local median at 9.6% against 8.7%. Franklin County, GA has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Franklin County, GA	24,234	22.2 min #4/6	9.6% #3/6	7:25 AM #3/6
Stephens County, GA	27,012	16.4 min	7.8%	7:18 AM
Madison County, GA	31,526	27.0 min	6.3%	7:26 AM
Hart County, GA	26,939	20.5 min	10.0%	7:40 AM
Banks County, GA	19,270	30.4 min	8.7%	7:07 AM
Habersham County, GA	47,793	21.3 min	9.6%	7:28 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Franklin County, Georgia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Franklin County, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 185 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,733 at a typical national wage. That's 6% less than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Franklin County, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Franklin County, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Franklin County, Georgia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Georgia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Georgia have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Georgia, the shortest average commutes are in Chattahoochee County (8.6 min), Ben Hill County (12.7 min), Tift County (15.8 min). The longest are in Talbot County (40.8 min), McIntosh County (37.7 min), Paulding County (36.4 min).