Quitman County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Quitman County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Quitman County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

Quitman County holds about 0.0% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Quitman County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,921 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)
Quitman County	18.6 min	37.2 min	155 hrs/yr	$4,803	292
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 18.6 minutes to get to work in Quitman County. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 79% 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 other means. About 0.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Quitman County

• Car: 98.2% unusually high
• Other: 1.3%
• Worked at Home: 0.6% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 23% more common in Quitman County than the Georgia average (98.2% vs 79.8%).

Walking is essentially absent in Quitman County, versus 1.3% in Georgia.

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Quitman County: 28.7 times less than the Georgia average (0.6% vs 15.9%).

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

Walking or biking to work is essentially absent in Quitman County, versus 1.4% in Georgia.

Commute Mode Trends in Quitman County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Quitman 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	Other	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Walked
2009	89.2%	4.4%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.0%
2010	92.7%	0.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.5%
2011	94.0%	2.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.5%
2012	94.0%	3.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.6%
2013	92.8%	4.2%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2014	90.6%	4.4%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.9%
2015	90.1%	4.2%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	1.0%
2016	95.4%	0.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	95.3%	1.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2018	96.3%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.8%
2019	97.1%	0.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2020	97.9%	0.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	97.7%	0.0%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	98.5%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	96.7%	0.0%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	98.2%	1.3%	0.6%	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 98.5%. Overall it rose from 89.2% in 2009 to 98.2% in 2024, up 9.0 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.0% to 0.0% of workers (down 4.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 3.5% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.6%.

Commute Start Times in Quitman County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Quitman County?

The bars show when commuters in Quitman 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 Quitman County6.5% Georgia5.2%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Quitman County2.8% Georgia3.9%	2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Quitman County4.5% Georgia4.6%	4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Quitman County0.6% Georgia9.4%	0.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Quitman County4.6% Georgia9.6%	4.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Quitman County21.7% Georgia14.9%	21.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Quitman County20.6% Georgia11.5%	20.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Quitman County8.4% Georgia11.6%	8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Quitman County16.4% Georgia5.1%	16.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Quitman County1.7% Georgia6.7%	1.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Quitman County0.0% Georgia3.1%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Quitman County0.0% Georgia1.4%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Quitman County12.3% Georgia6.4%	12.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Quitman County0.0% Georgia6.7%	0.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Quitman County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 13.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 55.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.9%) 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 Quitman 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 Quitman 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 Quitman 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	Quitman County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:45 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 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	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Quitman County were on the road by 7:44 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:45 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Quitman County now leave 6 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Quitman County has moved 38 minutes later.

How does Quitman County's commute time compare?

Metric	Quitman County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.6 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	0.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Quitman County is 18.6 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau