Gwinnett County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Gwinnett 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 Gwinnett County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gwinnett County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 259 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.4 minutes.

Gwinnett County holds about 9.0% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 11.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Gwinnett County would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,208 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)
Gwinnett County	31.0 min	62.1 min	259 hrs/yr	$8,019	3,675
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

Gwinnett County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 31.0 minutes to get to work in Gwinnett County. That's 38% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 90% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 18.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gwinnett County

Commute Mode Trends in Gwinnett County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gwinnett 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	Other	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	90.5%	5.2%	2.0%	0.8%	0.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	89.8%	5.3%	2.4%	0.8%	0.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	90.1%	5.1%	2.4%	0.9%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	90.7%	5.1%	2.0%	0.8%	0.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	90.9%	5.0%	1.6%	1.0%	0.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	91.0%	5.3%	1.2%	1.0%	0.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	91.3%	5.4%	0.9%	1.0%	0.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	91.1%	5.6%	0.8%	1.0%	0.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	90.7%	5.8%	0.9%	1.1%	0.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	90.7%	6.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.3%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	90.3%	6.4%	0.9%	0.9%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	88.1%	8.9%	0.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	85.4%	11.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	83.1%	14.1%	0.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	80.5%	16.5%	1.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	78.5%	18.4%	1.3%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 91.3%. Overall it fell from 90.5% in 2009 to 78.5% in 2024, down 12.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Gwinnett County: its share of workers rose from 5.2% in 2009 to 18.4% in 2024, up 13.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Gwinnett County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gwinnett County?

The bars show when commuters in Gwinnett 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		4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gwinnett County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 13.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 13.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 45.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.8%) 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 Gwinnett 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 Gwinnett 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 Gwinnett 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	Gwinnett County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:47 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:47 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gwinnett County were on the road by 7:44 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:37 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Gwinnett County now leave 7 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Gwinnett County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Gwinnett County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gwinnett County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.0 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	18.4%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gwinnett County is 31.0 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.5% 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

Gwinnett County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Gwinnett County, GA is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 979,292 residents against a local median of 103,328. The measure that sets Gwinnett County, GA apart most is work from home: 18.4%, 35% above the local median of 13.6%.

The counties themselves spread 23.2% on work from home, so Gwinnett County, GA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Gwinnett 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
Gwinnett County, GA	979,292	31.0 min #3/6	18.4% #3/6	7:44 AM #4/6
DeKalb County, GA	765,300	28.7 min	22.6%	7:58 AM
Forsyth County, GA	267,252	27.1 min	32.5%	7:51 AM
Rockdale County, GA	95,281	31.2 min	13.6%	7:22 AM
Barrow County, GA	89,881	31.5 min	9.3%	7:16 AM
Walton County, GA	103,328	31.5 min	13.2%	7:16 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Gwinnett County, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 259 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,019 at a typical national wage. That's 31% more than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Gwinnett County, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

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).