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Pulaski County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Pulaski County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pulaski County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 185 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Pulaski County holds about 0.1% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pulaski County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,293 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)
Pulaski County 22.2 min 44.4 min 185 hrs/yr $5,732 349
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Georgia
  1. Chattahoochee County (8.6 min)
  2. Ben Hill County (12.7 min)
  3. Tift County (15.8 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Georgia
  1. Talbot County (40.8 min)
  2. McIntosh County (37.7 min)
  3. Paulding County (36.4 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Pulaski County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.2 minutes to get to work in Pulaski County. That's 1% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pulaski County

  • Car: 91.2%
  • Worked at Home: 6.1%
  • Walked: 2.7%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Other: < 0.1%

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Pulaski County, versus 0.1% in Georgia.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pulaski County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pulaski 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.

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 Walked Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle Other
2009 97.1% 2.3% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 94.7% 2.3% 3.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 93.3% 3.1% 3.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 91.6% 4.0% 4.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 93.1% 3.1% 3.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 93.6% 2.1% 4.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 92.8% 1.9% 5.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 91.5% 1.9% 6.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 94.7% 1.2% 4.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 94.1% 2.2% 3.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 93.7% 1.7% 4.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 97.0% 2.4% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 96.4% 2.5% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 97.2% 1.9% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 95.9% 3.2% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 91.2% 6.1% 2.7% 0.0% 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 peaked in 2022 at 97.2%. Overall it fell from 97.1% in 2009 to 91.2% in 2024, down 5.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pulaski County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 6.1% in 2024, up 3.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 6.7% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 2.7%.

Commute Start Times in Pulaski County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pulaski County?

The bars show when commuters in Pulaski 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
6.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
15.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
20.1%
7:30-7:59 AM
8.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
19.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pulaski County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 13.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 56.4% 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 Pulaski 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 Pulaski 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 Pulaski 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Pulaski County Georgia United States
2009 7:29 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:22 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:21 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:14 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:15 AM 7:37 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:15 AM 7:37 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:22 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:26 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:31 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:32 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:37 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:35 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:33 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:40 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:32 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:19 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pulaski County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Pulaski County now leave 19 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 Pulaski County has moved 18 minutes earlier.

How does Pulaski County's commute time compare?

Metric Pulaski County Georgia US Average
Avg. Commute Time 22.2 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 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 6.1% 15.9% 15.0%
Walked 2.7% 1.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.1% 3.2%

The average commute time in Pulaski County is 22.2 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pulaski County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Pulaski County, GA is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 9,939 residents against a local median of 12,430. Where Pulaski County, GA breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 19% below the local median of 7.5% at 6.1%.

The counties themselves spread 6.3% on work from home, so Pulaski County, GA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Pulaski County, GA has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Pulaski County, GA 9,939 22.2 min #4/6 6.1% #4/6 7:19 AM #3/6
Bleckley County, GA 12,430 25.3 min 7.5% 7:20 AM
Wilcox County, GA 8,798 27.2 min 9.2% 7:05 AM
Houston County, GA 169,649 20.4 min 10.3% 7:28 AM
Dodge County, GA 19,805 20.9 min 5.8% 7:15 AM
Dooly County, GA 10,983 18.7 min 4.0% 7:27 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pulaski County, Georgia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Pulaski County, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 185 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,732 at a typical national wage. That's 6% less than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Pulaski County, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pulaski County, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Pulaski County, Georgia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Georgia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Georgia?

Among counties in Georgia, the shortest average commutes are in Chattahoochee County (8.6 min), Ben Hill County (12.7 min), Tift County (15.8 min). The longest are in Talbot County (40.8 min), McIntosh County (37.7 min), Paulding County (36.4 min).