Laurens County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Laurens County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Laurens County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 154 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.2 minutes.

Laurens County holds about 0.5% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Laurens County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,909 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)
Laurens County	18.5 min	37.0 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,773	518
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.

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On average, it takes 18.5 minutes to get to work in Laurens County. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 80% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Laurens County

• Car: 94.2%
• Worked at Home: 4.3% unusually low
• Other: 0.8%
• Walked: 0.5%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Laurens County: 20.9 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Laurens County: 3.7 times less than the Georgia average (4.3% vs 15.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Laurens County: 31.6 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Laurens County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Laurens 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Taxi
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.2%	1.6%	1.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	95.9%	1.6%	1.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	96.7%	1.6%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	96.9%	1.3%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	96.7%	1.4%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	96.2%	1.8%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	95.7%	1.5%	0.9%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	95.0%	1.7%	0.7%	2.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	95.3%	1.7%	1.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.9%	1.6%	1.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	95.8%	2.0%	1.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	96.0%	2.1%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	96.2%	2.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.9%	3.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.1%	3.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.2%	4.3%	0.8%	0.5%	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 peaked in 2012 at 96.9%. Overall it fell from 95.2% in 2009 to 94.2% in 2024, down 1.0 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Laurens County: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 4.3% in 2024, up 2.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Laurens County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Laurens County?

The bars show when commuters in Laurens 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	12:00-4:59 AM Laurens County4.9% Georgia5.2%	4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Laurens County4.5% Georgia3.9%	4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Laurens County4.2% Georgia4.6%	4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Laurens County9.5% Georgia9.4%	9.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Laurens County12.6% Georgia9.6%	12.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Laurens County14.9% Georgia14.9%	14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Laurens County15.7% Georgia11.5%	15.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Laurens County9.4% Georgia11.6%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Laurens County4.1% Georgia5.1%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Laurens County5.4% Georgia6.7%	5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Laurens County1.4% Georgia3.1%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Laurens County1.2% Georgia1.4%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Laurens County4.2% Georgia6.4%	4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Laurens County7.9% Georgia6.7%	7.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Laurens County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 13.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 52.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.0%) 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 Laurens 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 Laurens 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 Laurens 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.

• Laurens County
• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Laurens County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Laurens County 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 Laurens County now leave 9 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Laurens County's commute time compare?

Metric	Laurens County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.5 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.3%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Laurens County is 18.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.1% 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