Oglethorpe County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Oglethorpe County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oglethorpe County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 259 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.4 minutes.

Oglethorpe County holds about 0.1% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Oglethorpe County would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,207 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)
Oglethorpe County	31.0 min	62.1 min	259 hrs/yr	$8,018	555
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 31.0 minutes to get to work in Oglethorpe County. That's 38% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 89% of counties in Georgia

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 9.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oglethorpe County

• Car: 88.7%
• Worked at Home: 9.4%
• Other: 1.3%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.3% unusually high
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Oglethorpe County: 3.6 times more than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Oglethorpe County: 3.9 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Oglethorpe County, versus 1.1% in Georgia.

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

Biking is unusually rare in Oglethorpe County: 11.1 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Oglethorpe County: just 0.3%, 4.2 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Oglethorpe County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oglethorpe 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	Other	Motorcycle	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.4%	4.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.9%	5.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.3%	5.9%	0.4%	0.0%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.3%	3.9%	1.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.6%	4.0%	1.3%	0.0%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.5%	4.7%	1.3%	0.0%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.0%	4.6%	1.7%	0.0%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.1%	3.7%	1.6%	0.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.7%	3.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.4%	3.8%	0.3%	0.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.5%	4.0%	0.2%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.8%	5.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.0%	4.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.5%	4.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.6%	6.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.7%	9.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.3%	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 2017 at 94.7%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 88.7% in 2024, down 4.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Oglethorpe County: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 9.4% in 2024, up 4.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Oglethorpe County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oglethorpe County?

The bars show when commuters in Oglethorpe 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 Oglethorpe County4.0% Georgia5.2%	4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Oglethorpe County3.6% Georgia3.9%	3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Oglethorpe County3.0% Georgia4.6%	3.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Oglethorpe County12.7% Georgia9.4%	12.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Oglethorpe County11.0% Georgia9.6%	11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Oglethorpe County20.0% Georgia14.9%	20.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Oglethorpe County16.6% Georgia11.5%	16.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Oglethorpe County9.4% Georgia11.6%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Oglethorpe County5.9% Georgia5.1%	5.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Oglethorpe County4.2% Georgia6.7%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Oglethorpe County1.9% Georgia3.1%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Oglethorpe County0.8% Georgia1.4%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Oglethorpe County3.4% Georgia6.4%	3.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Oglethorpe County3.4% Georgia6.7%	3.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Oglethorpe County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 10.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 57.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.7%) 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 Oglethorpe 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 Oglethorpe 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 Oglethorpe 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	Oglethorpe County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oglethorpe County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Oglethorpe County now leave 14 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 Oglethorpe County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Oglethorpe County's commute time compare?

Metric	Oglethorpe County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.0 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	9.4%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oglethorpe County is 31.0 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.0% 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