McDuffie County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in McDuffie County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in McDuffie County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.

McDuffie 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 McDuffie County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,870 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)
McDuffie County	18.1 min	36.2 min	151 hrs/yr	$4,676	545
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 18.1 minutes to get to work in McDuffie County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 85% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in McDuffie County

• Car: 90.5%
• Worked at Home: 6.6%
• Other: 2.1%
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Walked: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in McDuffie County: 10.7 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in McDuffie County: 7.8 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in McDuffie County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in McDuffie 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi
2009	95.0%	1.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	1.7%	0.0%
2010	95.2%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	2.0%	0.0%
2011	95.9%	2.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%
2012	94.8%	2.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%
2013	93.6%	2.5%	2.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%
2014	93.3%	2.4%	2.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%
2015	93.0%	2.8%	3.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	93.4%	3.0%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2017	95.3%	2.3%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	94.8%	2.3%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2019	95.3%	2.6%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2020	94.5%	3.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%
2021	92.5%	5.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	91.9%	5.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2023	90.9%	7.0%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2024	90.5%	6.6%	2.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 95.9%. Overall it fell from 95.0% in 2009 to 90.5% in 2024, down 4.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in McDuffie County: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 6.6% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.1% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in McDuffie County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in McDuffie County?

The bars show when commuters in McDuffie 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 McDuffie County8.3% Georgia5.2%	8.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM McDuffie County4.2% Georgia3.9%	4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM McDuffie County3.8% Georgia4.6%	3.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM McDuffie County6.4% Georgia9.4%	6.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM McDuffie County15.2% Georgia9.6%	15.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM McDuffie County10.2% Georgia14.9%	10.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM McDuffie County20.4% Georgia11.5%	20.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM McDuffie County6.8% Georgia11.6%	6.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM McDuffie County4.9% Georgia5.1%	4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM McDuffie County5.3% Georgia6.7%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM McDuffie County2.0% Georgia3.1%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM McDuffie County0.4% Georgia1.4%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM McDuffie County6.1% Georgia6.4%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM McDuffie County5.9% Georgia6.7%	5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in McDuffie County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 16.3% 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 (19.7%) 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 McDuffie 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 McDuffie 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 McDuffie 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	McDuffie County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:27 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	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:03 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in McDuffie County were on the road by 7:33 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in McDuffie County now leave 5 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 McDuffie County has moved 18 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for McDuffie County in the whole series.

How does McDuffie County's commute time compare?

Metric	McDuffie County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.1 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.1%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in McDuffie County is 18.1 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau