Jefferson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Q: Is living in Jefferson County, Georgia good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 194 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,001 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

Q: When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Jefferson County, Georgia?

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

Q: Do people use public transit in Jefferson 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.

Q: 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).

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Commute Time Burden in Jefferson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jefferson County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 194 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Jefferson 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 Jefferson County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,400 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)
Jefferson County	23.2 min	46.5 min	194 hrs/yr	$6,001	249
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

Jefferson County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.2 minutes to get to work in Jefferson County. That's 4% 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 3.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jefferson County

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Jefferson County, versus 0.1% in Georgia.

Public transit is unusually rare in Jefferson County: 11.6 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Jefferson County: 5.4 times less than the Georgia average (3.0% vs 15.9%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Jefferson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jefferson 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	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.5%	2.3%	0.6%	2.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	92.9%	2.0%	0.5%	3.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	1.0%
2011	92.8%	1.7%	0.4%	3.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	1.0%
2012	92.2%	2.0%	0.7%	3.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	1.0%
2013	92.7%	2.7%	0.6%	3.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.3%	3.0%	0.3%	3.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.3%	3.7%	0.4%	2.9%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.0%	2.4%	0.3%	2.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.9%	2.8%	0.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.7%	2.2%	0.1%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	94.8%	2.2%	0.1%	2.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	95.6%	2.2%	0.1%	1.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	94.0%	2.2%	1.7%	1.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	94.5%	1.9%	1.5%	1.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	95.5%	1.6%	1.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.0%	3.0%	1.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2020 at 95.6% and lowest in 2012 at 92.2%. Overall it rose from 93.5% in 2009 to 94.0% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Jefferson County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 3.0% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Jefferson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jefferson County?

The bars show when commuters in Jefferson 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		7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		11.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jefferson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 24.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 47.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.1%) 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 Jefferson 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 Jefferson 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 Jefferson 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	Jefferson County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:05 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jefferson County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Jefferson County now leave 29 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 Jefferson County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Jefferson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jefferson County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.2 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.0%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jefferson County is 23.2 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

Jefferson County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Jefferson County, GA is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 15,341 residents against a local median of 19,849. Jefferson County, GA's work from home, at 3.0%, runs 55% below the 6.6% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 4.0% on work from home, so Jefferson County, GA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Jefferson County, GA has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Jefferson County, GA	15,341	23.2 min #3/6	3.0% #6/6	7:09 AM #2/6
Glascock County, GA	2,932	32.0 min	7.9%	7:10 AM
Washington County, GA	19,849	17.7 min	5.6%	7:21 AM
Burke County, GA	24,470	25.4 min	8.3%	7:14 AM
Johnson County, GA	9,190	26.0 min	4.3%	7:00 AM
McDuffie County, GA	21,716	18.1 min	6.6%	7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Jefferson County, Georgia.

Is living in Jefferson County, Georgia good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 194 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,001 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Jefferson County, Georgia?

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

Do people use public transit in Jefferson 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).