Harris County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Harris 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 Harris County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Harris County spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 198 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way.

Harris County holds about 0.3% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Harris County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,455 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)
Harris County	23.8 min	47.5 min	198 hrs/yr	$6,138	1,087
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

Harris County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.8 minutes to get to work in Harris County. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Harris County

Public transit is unusually rare in Harris County: 3.3 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Harris County: 3.7 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Harris County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Harris 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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.0%	2.1%	0.3%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	96.6%	1.1%	0.1%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	95.0%	1.9%	0.4%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	94.5%	2.1%	0.4%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	94.9%	2.1%	0.6%	2.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	94.3%	2.6%	0.7%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	94.9%	2.8%	0.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	94.2%	2.9%	0.6%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	93.9%	3.3%	0.6%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.1%	3.6%	0.5%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.0%	4.0%	0.5%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.3%	5.1%	0.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.5%	6.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.4%	7.8%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.2%	9.7%	1.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.5%	11.2%	1.3%	0.5%	0.3%	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 peaked in 2010 at 96.6%. Overall it fell from 96.0% in 2009 to 86.5% in 2024, down 9.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Harris County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 11.2% in 2024, up 9.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Harris County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Harris County?

The bars show when commuters in Harris 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		4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Harris County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 14.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 53.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.6%) 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 Harris 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 Harris 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 Harris 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	Harris County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Harris County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Harris County now leave 11 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 Harris County has moved 3 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Harris County in the whole series.

How does Harris County's commute time compare?

Metric	Harris County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.8 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.2%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Harris County is about the same as in Georgia.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Harris County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Harris County, GA is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 36,086 residents against a local median of 20,929. Where Harris County, GA breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 28% above the local median of 8.7% at 11.2%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 23.8 min against a local median of 20.1 min, 18% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 18% above the local median it puts Harris County, GA at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.8% on work from home, so Harris County, GA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Harris County, GA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Harris County, GA	36,086	23.8 min #4/6	11.2% #2/6	7:26 AM #3/6
Muscogee County, GA	203,480	18.0 min	12.1%	7:46 AM
Troup County, GA	70,330	20.1 min	8.6%	7:27 AM
Meriwether County, GA	20,929	32.8 min	6.2%	6:53 AM
Talbot County, GA	5,742	40.8 min	9.0%	7:25 AM
Chattahoochee County, GA	8,887	8.6 min	8.7%	7:36 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Harris County, Georgia.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 198 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,138 at a typical national wage.

When is rush hour worst in Harris County, Georgia?

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

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Harris County, Georgia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Georgia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Georgia?

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).