Heard County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Heard County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Heard County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 265 hours, about 11.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 8.2 minutes.

Heard County holds about 0.1% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Heard County would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,286 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)
Heard County	31.8 min	63.6 min	265 hrs/yr	$8,215	745
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 31.8 minutes to get to work in Heard County. That's 42% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 95% 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 5.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Heard County

• Car: 91.3%
• Worked at Home: 5.3% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 1.4%
• Motorcycle: 1.2% unusually high
• Walked: 0.4%
• Other: 0.3%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Heard County: 13.3 times more than the Georgia average (1.2% vs 0.1%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Heard County: 3.0 times less than the Georgia average (5.3% vs 15.9%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Heard County: just 0.4%, 3.3 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Heard County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Heard 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.8%	2.6%	0.0%	0.5%	2.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.6%	2.4%	0.0%	0.5%	2.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	96.2%	2.0%	0.0%	0.3%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	97.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	97.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	97.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	98.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	97.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.8%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	97.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	96.6%	1.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	96.0%	2.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.9%	3.3%	0.9%	1.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	93.8%	3.5%	0.6%	1.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	92.9%	3.9%	1.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	91.3%	5.3%	1.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	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 98.3%. Overall it fell from 93.8% in 2009 to 91.3% in 2024, down 2.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Heard County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 5.3% in 2024, up 2.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 0.4% of workers (down 2.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Heard County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Heard County?

The bars show when commuters in Heard 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 Heard County7.9% Georgia5.2%	7.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Heard County4.1% Georgia3.9%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Heard County6.6% Georgia4.6%	6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Heard County7.9% Georgia9.4%	7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Heard County10.1% Georgia9.6%	10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Heard County20.4% Georgia14.9%	20.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Heard County14.3% Georgia11.5%	14.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Heard County7.5% Georgia11.6%	7.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Heard County2.0% Georgia5.1%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Heard County2.7% Georgia6.7%	2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Heard County2.5% Georgia3.1%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Heard County0.3% Georgia1.4%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Heard County7.5% Georgia6.4%	7.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Heard County6.2% Georgia6.7%	6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Heard County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 18.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 52.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.1%) 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 Heard 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 Heard 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 Heard 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Heard County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:05 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:03 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:05 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:00 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:03 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:00 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:52 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:49 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:54 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:00 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Heard County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:14 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Heard County now leave 18 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 Heard County has moved 26 minutes later.

How does Heard County's commute time compare?

Metric	Heard County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.8 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	5.3%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Heard County is 31.8 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

1.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau