Lee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lee County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 171 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.1 minutes.

Lee County 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 Lee County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,118 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)
Lee County	20.5 min	41.0 min	171 hrs/yr	$5,296	704
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

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On average, it takes 20.5 minutes to get to work in Lee County. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 70% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lee County

• Car: 91.6%
• Worked at Home: 7.5%
• Other: 0.7%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Lee County: 8.4 times less than the Georgia average (0.2% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Lee County, versus 1.1% in Georgia.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Lee County, versus 0.4% in Georgia.

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Lee County: just 0.2%, 9.4 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Lee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lee 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
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.6%	4.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	95.2%	3.5%	0.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	93.4%	5.0%	0.2%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	94.1%	4.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2013	94.4%	4.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	95.6%	3.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2015	95.9%	3.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	95.8%	3.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
2017	95.5%	4.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	95.9%	3.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	95.7%	3.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	95.0%	4.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	94.6%	4.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.4%	4.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.4%	5.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.6%	7.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	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 2015 at 95.9%. Overall it fell from 94.6% in 2009 to 91.6% in 2024, down 3.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lee County: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 7.5% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Lee County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lee County?

The bars show when commuters in Lee 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 Lee County3.7% Georgia5.2%	3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lee County2.6% Georgia3.9%	2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lee County1.6% Georgia4.6%	1.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lee County11.8% Georgia9.4%	11.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lee County11.8% Georgia9.6%	11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lee County19.6% Georgia14.9%	19.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lee County18.9% Georgia11.5%	18.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lee County7.9% Georgia11.6%	7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lee County4.3% Georgia5.1%	4.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lee County4.3% Georgia6.7%	4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lee County2.9% Georgia3.1%	2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lee County0.6% Georgia1.4%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lee County5.0% Georgia6.4%	5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lee County5.1% Georgia6.7%	5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lee County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 7.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 58.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.9%) 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 Lee 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 Lee 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 Lee 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.

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• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lee County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lee County were on the road by 7:28 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Lee County 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 Lee County has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Lee County in the whole series.

How does Lee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lee County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.5 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.5%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lee County is 20.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau