Milton Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Milton, Georgia: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Milton: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Milton spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 196 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Milton holds about 0.4% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Milton would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,427 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)
Milton	23.5 min	47.0 min	196 hrs/yr	$6,069	2,717
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.

Milton Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.5 minutes to get to work in Milton. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 40.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Milton

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Milton: 2876847.0 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 28% less common in Milton than the Georgia average (57.7% vs 79.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Milton: 9.5 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Milton: 22.2 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Milton: just 0.5%, 3.1 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Milton, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Milton 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	86.3%	11.4%	1.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	85.1%	12.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	85.7%	11.9%	0.3%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	86.9%	11.1%	0.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	86.5%	11.7%	0.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	85.0%	13.2%	0.4%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	84.8%	13.2%	0.4%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	83.6%	14.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	81.2%	16.0%	1.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	81.4%	16.0%	1.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	82.0%	14.9%	1.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	79.7%	18.6%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	73.1%	25.2%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	67.5%	31.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	63.3%	35.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	57.7%	40.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.5%	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 2012 at 86.9%. Overall it fell from 86.3% in 2009 to 57.7% in 2024, down 28.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Milton: its share of workers rose from 11.4% in 2009 to 40.2% in 2024, up 28.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 25.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Milton

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Milton?

The bars show when commuters in Milton 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		1.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		20.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		9.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Milton is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 20.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 5.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 50.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.8%) 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 Milton, 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 Milton 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 Milton 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Milton	Georgia	United States
2009	7:53 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:50 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:56 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:58 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:58 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:58 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:00 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:01 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:00 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:55 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:54 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:57 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:58 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:02 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:07 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:10 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Milton were on the road by 8:10 AM, 17 minutes later than in 2009 (7:53 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Milton now leave 32 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Milton has moved 15 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Milton in the whole series.

How does Milton's commute time compare?

Metric	Milton	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.5 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	40.2%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Milton is 23.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.5% 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

Milton, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Milton, GA is the smallest of the 4 cities compared here, 44,324 residents against a local median of 81,338. Milton, GA sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these cities turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 10% above the local median at 40.2% against 36.6%. Milton, GA has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Milton, GA	44,324	23.5 min #2/4	40.2% #1/4	8:10 AM #3/4
Alpharetta, GA	64,246	22.5 min	36.6%	8:13 AM
Roswell, GA	93,449	23.7 min	32.1%	8:03 AM
Johns Creek, GA	81,338	26.7 min	37.3%	8:09 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Milton, Georgia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Milton, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 196 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,069 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Milton, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Milton, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is Milton, Georgia a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 40.2% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Milton would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,427 at the same national wage assumption used above.