Paulding County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Paulding County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Paulding County spend about 73 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 304 hours, about 12.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 54% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 12.8 minutes.

Paulding County holds about 1.6% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 2.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Paulding County would save about 121 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,765 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)
Paulding County	36.4 min	72.9 min	304 hrs/yr	$9,412	2,439
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 36.4 minutes to get to work in Paulding County. That's 63% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Georgia

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 14.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Paulding County

• Car: 83.5%
• Worked at Home: 14.9%
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Paulding County: 5.3 times less than the Georgia average (0.2% vs 1.3%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Paulding County: 3.3 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Paulding County: just 0.2%, 6.0 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Paulding County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Paulding 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.1%	3.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	93.7%	4.3%	0.5%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	93.3%	4.7%	0.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	92.8%	5.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	93.0%	5.2%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	93.1%	5.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	92.9%	5.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	92.8%	6.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.6%	5.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.0%	6.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.4%	7.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.8%	8.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	88.3%	9.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	86.3%	12.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.3%	14.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.5%	14.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.1% in 2009 to 83.5% in 2024, down 10.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Paulding County: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 14.9% in 2024, up 11.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Paulding County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Paulding County?

The bars show when commuters in Paulding 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 Paulding County6.6% Georgia5.2%	6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Paulding County5.9% Georgia3.9%	5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Paulding County6.3% Georgia4.6%	6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Paulding County10.9% Georgia9.4%	10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Paulding County11.7% Georgia9.6%	11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Paulding County15.8% Georgia14.9%	15.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Paulding County8.2% Georgia11.5%	8.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Paulding County11.5% Georgia11.6%	11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Paulding County3.4% Georgia5.1%	3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Paulding County4.6% Georgia6.7%	4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Paulding County2.3% Georgia3.1%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Paulding County1.0% Georgia1.4%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Paulding County4.6% Georgia6.4%	4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Paulding County7.2% Georgia6.7%	7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Paulding County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 18.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 47.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 Paulding 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 Paulding 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 Paulding 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	Paulding County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Paulding County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:13 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Paulding County now leave 21 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 Paulding County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Paulding County's commute time compare?

Metric	Paulding County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	36.4 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	14.9%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Paulding County is 36.4 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau