Lumpkin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lumpkin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lumpkin County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting.

That is 4% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.

Lumpkin 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 Lumpkin County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,345 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)
Lumpkin County	22.7 min	45.4 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,863	1,298
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.

Commute Time Map: Georgia Counties

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On average, it takes 22.7 minutes to get to work in Lumpkin County. That's 1% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 9.5% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 84.8%
• Worked at Home: 9.5%
• Walked: 4.9% unusually high
• Other: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is unusually low in Lumpkin County: 7.2 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Lumpkin County: 4.9 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.3%).

Walked commuting is unusually common in Lumpkin County: 3.7 times more than the Georgia average (4.9% vs 1.3%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Lumpkin County, versus 0.4% in Georgia.

Bicycle commuting is essentially absent in Lumpkin County, versus 0.2% in Georgia.

Lumpkin County stands out for active commuting: 4.9% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.3 times the Georgia average of 1.5%.

How does Lumpkin County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lumpkin County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.7 min	23.6 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.5%	14.2%	13.4%
Walked	4.9%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.3%	3.5%

The average commute time in Lumpkin County is 22.7 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia. 4.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau