Mitchell County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Mitchell County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mitchell County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 176 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Mitchell 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 Mitchell County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,179 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)
Mitchell County	21.1 min	42.2 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,448	259
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 21.1 minutes to get to work in Mitchell County. That's 6% shorter 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 2.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mitchell County

• Car: 95.5%
• Worked at Home: 2.8% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.7% unusually high
• Other: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Mitchell County: 4.5 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Mitchell County: 8.6 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Mitchell County: 5.7 times less than the Georgia average (2.8% vs 15.9%).

Biking is unusually common in Mitchell County: 4.6 times more than the Georgia average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Mitchell County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mitchell 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	Bicycle	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.2%	1.7%	0.0%	5.5%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.5%	1.5%	0.0%	7.5%	2.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	89.5%	2.4%	0.0%	5.2%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.0%	2.9%	0.0%	4.5%	1.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.4%	2.2%	0.0%	2.3%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.3%	2.6%	0.0%	2.9%	2.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.6%	2.9%	0.0%	1.2%	3.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.4%	2.6%	0.1%	0.9%	2.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.2%	1.8%	0.2%	1.4%	2.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.3%	1.8%	0.3%	1.2%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.2%	2.0%	0.4%	0.3%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.8%	1.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	96.9%	1.2%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	96.4%	1.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	96.5%	2.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	95.5%	2.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2021 at 96.9% and lowest in 2010 at 88.5%. Overall it rose from 91.2% in 2009 to 95.5% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mitchell County: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 2.8% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Mitchell County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mitchell County?

The bars show when commuters in Mitchell 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 Mitchell County6.7% Georgia5.2%	6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Mitchell County6.6% Georgia3.9%	6.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Mitchell County2.7% Georgia4.6%	2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Mitchell County8.0% Georgia9.4%	8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Mitchell County14.6% Georgia9.6%	14.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Mitchell County22.3% Georgia14.9%	22.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Mitchell County12.9% Georgia11.5%	12.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Mitchell County9.7% Georgia11.6%	9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Mitchell County3.7% Georgia5.1%	3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Mitchell County3.0% Georgia6.7%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Mitchell County1.1% Georgia3.1%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Mitchell County0.4% Georgia1.4%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Mitchell County3.2% Georgia6.4%	3.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Mitchell County5.3% Georgia6.7%	5.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mitchell County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 16.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 59.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.9%) 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 Mitchell 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 Mitchell 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 Mitchell 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	Mitchell County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 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	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:06 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:10 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mitchell County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 19 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Mitchell County now leave 22 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 Mitchell County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Mitchell County's commute time compare?

Metric	Mitchell County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.1 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	2.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mitchell County is 21.1 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.1% 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