Pike County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Pike County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pike County spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 235 hours, about 9.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 4.5 minutes.

Pike County holds about 0.2% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pike County would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,910 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)
Pike County	28.2 min	56.3 min	235 hrs/yr	$7,274	1,327
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 28.2 minutes to get to work in Pike County. That's 26% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 78% 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 7.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pike County

• Car: 87.6%
• Worked at Home: 7.6%
• Walked: 3.4%
• Other: 0.8%
• Taxi: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pike County, 2009-2024

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

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Bicycle
2009	95.7%	2.4%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.4%	2.9%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.1%	2.6%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	96.3%	1.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	96.9%	1.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	96.3%	2.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2015	96.5%	2.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2016	96.9%	2.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	96.3%	3.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	96.1%	3.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	96.8%	2.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	95.1%	3.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2021	92.6%	4.4%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2022	92.1%	5.1%	2.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	88.7%	5.9%	3.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2024	87.6%	7.6%	3.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	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 2013 at 96.9%. Overall it fell from 95.7% in 2009 to 87.6% in 2024, down 8.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pike County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 7.6% in 2024, up 5.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Pike County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pike County?

The bars show when commuters in Pike 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 Pike County3.4% Georgia5.2%	3.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Pike County8.2% Georgia3.9%	8.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Pike County4.8% Georgia4.6%	4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Pike County9.8% Georgia9.4%	9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Pike County6.1% Georgia9.6%	6.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Pike County19.5% Georgia14.9%	19.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Pike County14.1% Georgia11.5%	14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Pike County8.4% Georgia11.6%	8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Pike County3.5% Georgia5.1%	3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Pike County8.4% Georgia6.7%	8.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Pike County1.4% Georgia3.1%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Pike County0.7% Georgia1.4%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Pike County6.1% Georgia6.4%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Pike County5.5% Georgia6.7%	5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pike County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 16.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 48.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.1%) 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 Pike 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 Pike 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 Pike 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.

• Pike County
• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Pike County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 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	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pike County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Pike County now leave 11 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 Pike County has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Pike County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pike County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.2 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	7.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	3.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pike County is 28.2 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau