Commute Time Burden in LaGrange: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in LaGrange spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 144 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting.
That is 27% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.
LaGrange holds about 0.2% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in LaGrange would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,780 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) |
| LaGrange |
17.2 min |
34.4 min |
144 hrs/yr |
$4,449 |
1,797 |
| 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.
LaGrange Commute Map
On average, it takes
17.2
minutes to get to work in
LaGrange.
That's 23% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is
06:30 AM – 06:59 AM
,
followed by
04:00 PM – 11:59 PM
.
Most people travel to work by
Car
, followed by
Worked at Home
.
About 7.9%
work from home.
Commute mode distribution
-
Car:
86.8%
-
Worked at Home:
7.9%
-
Walked:
3.2%
-
Other:
1.1%
-
Taxi:
0.8%
-
Bicycle:
0.1%
-
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
unusually low
-
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%
unusually low
Motorcycle commuting is unusually low in LaGrange: 10.4 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).
Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in LaGrange: 653.3 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 1.3%).
How does LaGrange's commute time compare?
| Metric |
LaGrange |
Georgia |
US Average |
| Avg. Commute Time |
17.2 min |
23.6 min |
22.5 min |
| Departure Window |
06:30 AM – 06:59 AM |
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM |
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM |
| Secondary Departure Window |
04:00 PM – 11:59 PM |
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM |
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM |
| Work From Home |
7.9% |
14.2% |
13.4% |
| Walked |
3.2% |
1.3% |
2.4% |
| Public Transit |
< 0.1% |
1.3% |
3.5% |
The average commute time in LaGrange is 17.2 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia. 3.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau