Oconee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Oconee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oconee 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 175 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 2.7 minutes.

Oconee 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 Oconee County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,169 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)
Oconee County	21.0 min	42.0 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,423	1,931
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 21.0 minutes to get to work in Oconee County. That's 6% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 17.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oconee County

• Car: 81.0%
• Worked at Home: 17.0%
• Other: 1.2%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Oconee County: 4.7 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Oconee County: 79.0 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 1.1%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Oconee County: 4.6 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Oconee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oconee 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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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.2%	6.3%	0.8%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	91.5%	6.8%	0.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	90.9%	7.0%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	91.4%	6.4%	0.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	92.4%	5.6%	0.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	93.0%	5.0%	0.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	93.1%	5.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2016	93.1%	5.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	93.2%	5.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	91.7%	7.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	90.4%	8.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	86.6%	11.7%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	82.8%	15.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	82.0%	16.2%	1.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	80.7%	17.7%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	81.0%	17.0%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	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 was highest in 2017 at 93.2% and lowest in 2023 at 80.7%. Overall it fell from 91.2% in 2009 to 81.0% in 2024, down 10.2 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Oconee County: its share of workers rose from 6.3% in 2009 to 17.0% in 2024, up 10.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Oconee County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oconee County?

The bars show when commuters in Oconee 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 Oconee County2.3% Georgia5.2%	2.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Oconee County2.5% Georgia3.9%	2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Oconee County1.6% Georgia4.6%	1.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Oconee County6.4% Georgia9.4%	6.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Oconee County7.8% Georgia9.6%	7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Oconee County15.9% Georgia14.9%	15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Oconee County20.1% Georgia11.5%	20.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Oconee County14.4% Georgia11.6%	14.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Oconee County9.0% Georgia5.1%	9.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Oconee County9.1% Georgia6.7%	9.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Oconee County2.3% Georgia3.1%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Oconee County1.9% Georgia1.4%	1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Oconee County3.7% Georgia6.4%	3.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Oconee County2.9% Georgia6.7%	2.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Oconee County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 6.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 58.3% 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 Oconee 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 Oconee 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 Oconee 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	Oconee County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:47 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:46 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:48 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:49 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:50 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oconee County were on the road by 7:50 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:47 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Oconee County now leave 12 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 Oconee County has moved 5 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Oconee County in the whole series.

How does Oconee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Oconee County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.0 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	17.0%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oconee County is 21.0 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau