Murray County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Murray County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Murray County spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 221 hours, about 9.2 full days, spent commuting.

That is 12% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.

Murray County 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 Murray County would save about 88 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,736 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)
Murray County	26.5 min	53.0 min	221 hrs/yr	$6,841	1,089
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 26.5 minutes to get to work in Murray County. That's 18% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 4.7% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 93.4%
• Worked at Home: 4.7% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.7% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Other: 0.2%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is unusually common in Murray County: 7.7 times more than the Georgia average (0.7% vs 0.1%).

Walked commuting is unusually low in Murray County: 3.8 times less than the Georgia average (0.4% vs 1.3%).

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

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

Worked at Home commuting is unusually low in Murray County: 3.0 times less than the Georgia average (4.7% vs 14.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Murray County: just 0.4%, 4.3 times below the Georgia average of 1.5%.

How does Murray County's commute time compare?

Metric	Murray County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.5 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.7%	14.2%	13.4%
Walked	0.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	1.3%	3.5%

The average commute time in Murray County is 26.5 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau