Grady County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Grady County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grady 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 184 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Grady 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 Grady County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,284 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)
Grady County	22.1 min	44.2 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,710	438
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

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On average, it takes 22.1 minutes to get to work in Grady 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 3.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grady County

• Car: 95.2%
• Worked at Home: 3.5% unusually low
• Walked: 0.7%
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Grady County: 4.6 times less than the Georgia average (3.5% vs 15.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Grady County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	87.1%	3.3%	2.0%	7.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.2%	3.5%	1.0%	6.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	89.7%	2.9%	1.4%	5.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.8%	2.7%	1.4%	4.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	95.1%	2.2%	0.5%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	93.9%	2.7%	0.6%	2.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	95.2%	2.5%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	94.9%	2.9%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	95.8%	2.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	95.8%	1.9%	1.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	96.7%	1.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	96.8%	1.7%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	96.8%	2.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	95.1%	2.8%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.6%	3.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	95.2%	3.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	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 peaked in 2020 at 96.8%. Overall it rose from 87.1% in 2009 to 95.2% in 2024, up 8.1 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 0.7% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Grady County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grady County?

The bars show when commuters in Grady 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 Grady County4.7% Georgia5.2%	4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Grady County5.4% Georgia3.9%	5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Grady County3.9% Georgia4.6%	3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Grady County11.7% Georgia9.4%	11.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Grady County11.6% Georgia9.6%	11.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Grady County21.3% Georgia14.9%	21.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Grady County15.5% Georgia11.5%	15.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Grady County5.7% Georgia11.6%	5.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Grady County2.8% Georgia5.1%	2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Grady County2.2% Georgia6.7%	2.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Grady County3.3% Georgia3.1%	3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Grady County0.4% Georgia1.4%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Grady County6.8% Georgia6.4%	6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Grady County4.6% Georgia6.7%	4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grady County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 14.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 54.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 Grady 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 Grady 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 Grady 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.

• Grady County
• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Grady County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grady County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:20 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Grady County now leave 20 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Grady County's commute time compare?

Metric	Grady County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.1 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	3.5%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Grady County is 22.1 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau