Jackson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Jackson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jackson County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 252 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.6 minutes.

Jackson County holds about 0.8% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jackson County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,126 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)
Jackson County	30.2 min	60.5 min	252 hrs/yr	$7,814	1,844
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

Jackson County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 30.2 minutes to get to work in Jackson County. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 81% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jackson County

Biking is unusually rare in Jackson County: 4.9 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Jackson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jackson 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.6%	6.2%	0.3%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	90.2%	7.2%	0.8%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	89.4%	8.0%	1.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	90.3%	7.9%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	91.6%	6.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	92.0%	6.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	93.0%	5.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	94.2%	4.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	4.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	93.6%	4.8%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	93.0%	5.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	91.2%	6.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	88.7%	8.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	86.0%	11.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	86.3%	11.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	84.8%	12.3%	1.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%	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 2017 at 94.3%. Overall it fell from 91.6% in 2009 to 84.8% in 2024, down 6.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Jackson County: its share of workers rose from 6.2% in 2009 to 12.3% in 2024, up 6.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Jackson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jackson County?

The bars show when commuters in Jackson 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		6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jackson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 18.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 46.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.4%) 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 Jackson 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 Jackson 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 Jackson 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	Jackson County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jackson County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Jackson County now leave 24 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 Jackson County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Jackson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jackson County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.2 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.3%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jackson County is 30.2 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Jackson County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Jackson County, GA is typical in size for this group, 84,777 residents against a local median of 89,881, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Jackson County, GA's one-way commute, at 30.2 min, runs 33% above the 22.8 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 14.5 min on one-way commute, so Jackson County, GA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Jackson County, GA has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Jackson County, GA	84,777	30.2 min #4/6	12.3% #3/6	7:14 AM #2/6
Barrow County, GA	89,881	31.5 min	9.3%	7:16 AM
Banks County, GA	19,270	30.4 min	8.7%	7:07 AM
Clarke County, GA	129,583	17.0 min	13.5%	8:08 AM
Hall County, GA	213,256	22.8 min	11.9%	7:27 AM
Oconee County, GA	43,551	21.0 min	17.0%	7:50 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Jackson County, Georgia.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 252 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,814 at a typical national wage. That's 28% more than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Jackson County, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Jackson County, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 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).