Gordon County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Gordon County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gordon County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Gordon County holds about 0.5% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Gordon County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,146 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)
Gordon County	20.8 min	41.5 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,366	1,206
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 20.8 minutes to get to work in Gordon County. That's 7% 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 6.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gordon County

• Car: 91.0%
• Worked at Home: 6.8%
• Other: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.6%
• Taxi: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Gordon County: 14.5 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Gordon County: 41.6 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Gordon County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gordon 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
• Other
• Walked
• Taxi
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• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.4%	1.5%	1.7%	1.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	94.1%	1.8%	2.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	95.2%	1.6%	1.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	95.1%	1.9%	1.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	94.6%	2.4%	1.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	94.0%	2.0%	2.1%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	92.8%	2.7%	2.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	92.1%	3.1%	2.1%	1.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	91.3%	4.0%	2.0%	1.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	92.3%	3.5%	1.3%	1.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	91.6%	4.7%	0.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%
2020	91.4%	5.7%	0.7%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2021	92.3%	5.4%	0.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2022	91.5%	6.5%	0.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	89.6%	7.6%	1.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2024	91.0%	6.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2011 at 95.2% and lowest in 2023 at 89.6%. Overall it fell from 94.4% in 2009 to 91.0% in 2024, down 3.4 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Gordon County: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 6.8% in 2024, up 5.3 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.6% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Gordon County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gordon County?

The bars show when commuters in Gordon 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 Gordon County4.9% Georgia5.2%	4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Gordon County4.0% Georgia3.9%	4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Gordon County5.0% Georgia4.6%	5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Gordon County10.2% Georgia9.4%	10.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Gordon County10.8% Georgia9.6%	10.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Gordon County19.0% Georgia14.9%	19.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Gordon County14.5% Georgia11.5%	14.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Gordon County11.9% Georgia11.6%	11.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Gordon County3.0% Georgia5.1%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Gordon County3.5% Georgia6.7%	3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Gordon County1.3% Georgia3.1%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Gordon County0.7% Georgia1.4%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Gordon County6.3% Georgia6.4%	6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Gordon County4.9% Georgia6.7%	4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gordon County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 13.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 56.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.8%) 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 Gordon 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 Gordon 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 Gordon 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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• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Gordon County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gordon County were on the road by 7:24 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Gordon County now leave 14 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Gordon County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gordon County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.8 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gordon County is 20.8 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau