Henry County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Henry County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Henry County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting.

That is 30% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.1 minutes.

Henry County holds about 2.3% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 3.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Henry County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,172 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)
Henry County	30.7 min	61.4 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,930	2,297
Georgia	23.6 min	47.3 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,106	1,447
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 30.7 minutes to get to work in Henry County. That's 37% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 85% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 14.3% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 83.1%
• Worked at Home: 14.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.9%
• Other: 0.8%
• Walked: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1%

Taxi commuting is unusually low in Henry County: 3.7 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

How does Henry County's commute time compare?

Metric	Henry County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.7 min	23.6 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.3%	14.2%	13.4%
Walked	0.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	1.3%	3.5%

The average commute time in Henry County is 30.7 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau