Monroe County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Monroe County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Monroe County 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 about the same time on the road as the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way.

Monroe 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 Monroe County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,432 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)
Monroe County	23.5 min	47.1 min	196 hrs/yr	$6,080	946
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 23.5 minutes to get to work in Monroe County. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Monroe County

• Car: 92.4%
• Worked at Home: 5.8%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Other: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Monroe County: 6.6 times less than the Georgia average (0.2% vs 1.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Monroe County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Monroe 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
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.2%	2.5%	1.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	94.5%	2.7%	1.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	95.2%	2.1%	1.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	95.7%	2.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2013	95.4%	2.3%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	96.0%	1.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	95.7%	1.9%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	95.5%	1.6%	1.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2017	95.2%	2.4%	0.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	96.0%	2.4%	0.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	96.3%	2.2%	0.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	95.5%	2.2%	1.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	95.4%	3.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.9%	3.0%	1.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.3%	2.8%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.4%	5.8%	0.9%	0.7%	0.2%	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 2019 at 96.3%. Overall it fell from 95.2% in 2009 to 92.4% in 2024, down 2.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Monroe County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 5.8% in 2024, up 3.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Monroe County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Monroe County?

The bars show when commuters in Monroe 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 Monroe County3.3% Georgia5.2%	3.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Monroe County2.3% Georgia3.9%	2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Monroe County2.5% Georgia4.6%	2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Monroe County8.4% Georgia9.4%	8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Monroe County8.5% Georgia9.6%	8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Monroe County18.0% Georgia14.9%	18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Monroe County17.3% Georgia11.5%	17.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Monroe County13.9% Georgia11.6%	13.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Monroe County5.9% Georgia5.1%	5.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Monroe County4.2% Georgia6.7%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Monroe County2.4% Georgia3.1%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Monroe County1.2% Georgia1.4%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Monroe County3.8% Georgia6.4%	3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Monroe County8.3% Georgia6.7%	8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Monroe County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 8.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 57.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.9%) 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 Monroe 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 Monroe 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 Monroe 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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• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Monroe County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Monroe County were on the road by 7:42 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:38 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Monroe County now leave 4 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 Monroe County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Monroe County's commute time compare?

Metric	Monroe County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.5 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Monroe County is about the same as in Georgia.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau