Pooler Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pooler, Georgia: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Pooler: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pooler spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 181 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Pooler 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 Pooler would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,241 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)
Pooler	21.7 min	43.4 min	181 hrs/yr	$5,603	3,004
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.

Pooler Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.7 minutes to get to work in Pooler. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 14.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pooler

Public transit is unusually rare in Pooler: 7.9 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

Biking is essentially absent in Pooler, versus 0.2% in Georgia.

Commute Mode Trends in Pooler, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pooler 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.8%	3.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2010	96.5%	2.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	95.0%	4.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	95.6%	3.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2013	94.7%	4.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	95.8%	3.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	95.4%	2.5%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	94.6%	3.3%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	94.9%	3.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	96.2%	2.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.6%	5.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	89.8%	6.6%	3.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	88.7%	6.7%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.6%	8.5%	3.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.6%	11.3%	3.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	81.0%	14.6%	3.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 96.5%. Overall it fell from 95.8% in 2009 to 81.0% in 2024, down 14.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pooler: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 14.6% in 2024, up 11.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Pooler

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pooler?

The bars show when commuters in Pooler 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		8.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		5.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pooler is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 20.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 41.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.7%) 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 Pooler, 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 Pooler 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 Pooler 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Pooler	Georgia	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:04 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:09 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pooler were on the road by 7:26 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:30 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Pooler now leave 12 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 Pooler has moved 17 minutes later.

How does Pooler's commute time compare?

Metric	Pooler	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.7 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	14.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pooler is 21.7 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pooler, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Pooler, GA compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pooler, GA	24,713	21.7 min #2/2	14.6% #1/2	7:26 AM #1/2
Savannah, GA	145,402	18.4 min	11.7%	7:54 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pooler, Georgia.

Is commuting expensive in Pooler, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 181 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,603 at a typical national wage. That's 8% less than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Pooler, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pooler, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Pooler, Georgia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Georgia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.