Hart County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Hart County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hart County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 171 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.1 minutes.

Hart 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 Hart County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,123 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)
Hart County	20.5 min	41.1 min	171 hrs/yr	$5,307	905
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

Hart County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.5 minutes to get to work in Hart County. That's 8% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 70% of counties in Georgia

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 10.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hart County

Public transit is unusually rare in Hart County: 10.9 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Hart County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hart 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	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	92.4%	5.0%	2.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.0%	5.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.2%	4.5%	2.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.1%	4.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.8%	6.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.1%	5.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.2%	5.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	92.6%	5.1%	1.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	93.6%	4.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.3%	4.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.1%	4.6%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.1%	4.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.8%	6.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.6%	7.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.3%	8.4%	1.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.1%	10.0%	0.9%	0.4%	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 2018 at 94.3%. Overall it fell from 92.4% in 2009 to 88.1% in 2024, down 4.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hart County: its share of workers rose from 5.0% in 2009 to 10.0% in 2024, up 5.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Hart County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hart County?

The bars show when commuters in Hart 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		3.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hart County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 11.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 48.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.9%) 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 Hart 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 Hart 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 Hart 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	Hart County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hart County were on the road by 7:40 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:32 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Hart County now leave 2 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 Hart County has moved 14 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Hart County in the whole series.

How does Hart County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hart County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.5 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	10.0%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hart County is 20.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Hart County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Hart County, GA is typical in size for this group, 26,939 residents against a local median of 27,012, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Hart County, GA's work from home, at 10.0%, runs 32% above the 7.6% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 3.3% on work from home, so Hart County, GA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Hart County, GA has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Hart County, GA	26,939	20.5 min #3/6	10.0% #1/6	7:40 AM #6/6
Elbert County, GA	19,849	18.7 min	7.1%	7:18 AM
Franklin County, GA	24,234	22.2 min	9.6%	7:25 AM
Madison County, GA	31,526	27.0 min	6.3%	7:26 AM
Anderson County, SC	210,447	23.0 min	7.6%	7:34 AM
Stephens County, GA	27,012	16.4 min	7.8%	7:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hart County, Georgia.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 171 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,307 at a typical national wage. That's 13% less than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Hart County, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Hart 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.

Do people use public transit in Hart 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.

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).