Kennesaw Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Kennesaw, Georgia: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Kennesaw: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kennesaw spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 214 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Kennesaw holds about 0.3% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kennesaw would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,653 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)
Kennesaw	25.7 min	51.3 min	214 hrs/yr	$6,633	4,554
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.

Kennesaw Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.7 minutes to get to work in Kennesaw. That's 15% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 20.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kennesaw

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Kennesaw: 6.0 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Kennesaw: 4.8 times less than the Georgia average (0.2% vs 1.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Kennesaw: 5.9 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Kennesaw, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kennesaw 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	92.2%	5.3%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	92.7%	4.7%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	92.8%	4.5%	0.3%	1.4%	0.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	91.6%	5.5%	0.3%	1.4%	0.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	91.6%	5.6%	0.2%	1.4%	0.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	92.0%	4.4%	0.4%	1.3%	0.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.8%	4.3%	0.5%	1.8%	0.1%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	91.6%	5.2%	0.8%	0.9%	0.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	90.6%	5.5%	0.9%	1.2%	0.1%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	88.7%	7.0%	1.0%	1.2%	0.1%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	88.9%	7.5%	0.8%	1.5%	0.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	86.1%	9.5%	1.4%	0.7%	0.1%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	83.3%	13.3%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	80.5%	16.4%	1.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	78.3%	18.7%	1.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	76.8%	20.6%	1.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 92.8%. Overall it fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 76.8% in 2024, down 15.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kennesaw: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 20.6% in 2024, up 15.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 1.8% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.

Commute Start Times in Kennesaw

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kennesaw?

The bars show when commuters in Kennesaw 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		4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		20.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kennesaw is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 10.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 49.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.2%) 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 Kennesaw, 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 Kennesaw 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 Kennesaw 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	Kennesaw	Georgia	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kennesaw were on the road by 7:29 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Kennesaw now leave 9 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 Kennesaw has moved 8 minutes earlier.

How does Kennesaw's commute time compare?

Metric	Kennesaw	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.7 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	20.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kennesaw is 25.7 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Kennesaw, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Kennesaw, GA compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Kennesaw, GA	32,196	25.7 min #1/3	20.6% #2/3	7:29 AM #1/3
Marietta, GA	62,997	26.2 min	19.6%	7:59 AM
Woodstock, GA	32,770	30.6 min	24.3%	7:54 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Kennesaw, Georgia.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Kennesaw, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 214 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,633 at a typical national wage. That's 9% more than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Kennesaw, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Kennesaw, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Kennesaw, Georgia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Georgia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.