Long County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Long County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Long County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 213 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Long County holds about 0.2% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Long County would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,637 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)
Long County	25.5 min	51.0 min	213 hrs/yr	$6,594	635
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 25.5 minutes to get to work in Long County. That's 14% 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 5.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Long County

• Car: 89.5%
• Worked at Home: 5.9%
• Taxi: 3.8% unusually high
• Other: 0.4%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Long County: 3.7 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.3%).

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

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Long County: 8.7 times more than the Georgia average (3.8% vs 0.4%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Long County: just 0.3%, 4.2 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Long County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Long 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
• Taxi
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Taxi	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.8%	1.6%	0.3%	2.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.7%	1.2%	0.3%	2.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.2%	0.7%	0.0%	5.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.4%	1.0%	0.0%	4.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.9%	1.0%	0.0%	5.2%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.6%	0.5%	0.0%	5.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.2%	0.3%	0.0%	6.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.7%	0.2%	0.0%	4.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.8%	1.4%	0.0%	4.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2018	91.9%	2.8%	0.0%	4.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2019	91.1%	2.9%	0.1%	5.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	92.8%	4.7%	0.1%	1.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	92.0%	5.3%	0.1%	1.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	89.5%	5.5%	3.4%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.1%	5.7%	2.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.5%	5.9%	3.8%	0.4%	0.3%	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 2010 at 95.7%. Overall it fell from 94.8% in 2009 to 89.5% in 2024, down 5.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Long County: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 5.9% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Long County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Long County?

The bars show when commuters in Long 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 Long County10.2% Georgia5.2%	10.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Long County4.4% Georgia3.9%	4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Long County10.6% Georgia4.6%	10.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Long County5.7% Georgia9.4%	5.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Long County13.8% Georgia9.6%	13.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Long County17.6% Georgia14.9%	17.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Long County7.6% Georgia11.5%	7.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Long County8.7% Georgia11.6%	8.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Long County2.2% Georgia5.1%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Long County3.2% Georgia6.7%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Long County2.0% Georgia3.1%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Long County1.3% Georgia1.4%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Long County5.3% Georgia6.4%	5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Long County7.3% Georgia6.7%	7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Long County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 25.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 47.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.1%) 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 Long 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 Long 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 Long 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.

• Long County
• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Long County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:09 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:09 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:01 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:58 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:50 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:59 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:02 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:07 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Long County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:11 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Long 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 Long County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Long County's commute time compare?

Metric	Long County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.5 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.9%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Long County is 25.5 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau