Roswell Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Roswell, 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 Roswell: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Roswell spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 198 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way.

Roswell holds about 0.9% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Roswell would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,452 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)
Roswell	23.7 min	47.5 min	198 hrs/yr	$6,131	3,992
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.

Roswell Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Roswell. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 32.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Roswell

Driving is 20% less common in Roswell than the Georgia average (63.6% vs 79.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Roswell, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Roswell 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	85.4%	9.4%	1.7%	1.0%	0.8%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	85.9%	9.7%	1.3%	1.0%	0.7%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	86.3%	9.5%	1.1%	0.9%	0.6%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	86.6%	9.1%	0.8%	1.0%	0.7%	1.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	87.0%	8.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.7%	2.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	86.3%	8.7%	0.7%	1.1%	0.3%	2.6%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	85.8%	9.1%	0.9%	1.1%	0.2%	2.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	84.8%	9.0%	1.1%	1.7%	0.5%	2.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	83.1%	10.3%	1.2%	1.8%	0.6%	2.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	82.2%	11.5%	1.3%	1.5%	0.6%	2.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	82.1%	11.6%	1.5%	1.5%	0.7%	2.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	78.8%	15.9%	1.5%	1.4%	0.5%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	73.6%	21.6%	1.4%	1.0%	0.4%	1.9%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	70.0%	25.7%	1.3%	1.1%	0.2%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	66.1%	29.5%	1.2%	1.3%	0.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	63.6%	32.1%	1.4%	1.2%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 87.0%. Overall it fell from 85.4% in 2009 to 63.6% in 2024, down 21.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 11 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Roswell: its share of workers rose from 9.4% in 2009 to 32.1% in 2024, up 22.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 20.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.6% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Roswell

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Roswell?

The bars show when commuters in Roswell 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		1.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		18.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Roswell is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.6% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 6.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 52.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.4%) 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 Roswell, 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 Roswell 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 Roswell 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	Roswell	Georgia	United States
2009	7:53 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:55 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:57 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:55 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:52 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:50 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:45 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:47 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:48 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:53 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:56 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:59 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:01 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:03 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Roswell were on the road by 8:03 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:53 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Roswell now leave 25 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 Roswell has moved 15 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Roswell in the whole series.

How does Roswell's commute time compare?

Metric	Roswell	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.7 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	32.1%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Roswell is about the same as in Georgia.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Roswell, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Roswell, GA is the 2nd largest of the 5 cities compared here, 93,449 residents against a local median of 57,667. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Roswell, GA an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 9% below the local median at 32.1% against 35.2%. Roswell, GA has the 5th highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Roswell, GA	93,449	23.7 min #5/5	32.1% #5/5	8:03 AM #1/5
Alpharetta, GA	64,246	22.5 min	36.6%	8:13 AM
Milton, GA	44,324	23.5 min	40.2%	8:10 AM
Sandy Springs, GA	106,483	22.6 min	32.1%	8:13 AM
Dunwoody, GA	51,089	23.6 min	33.7%	8:11 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Roswell, Georgia.

Is living in Roswell, Georgia good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 198 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,131 at a typical national wage.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Roswell, Georgia?

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

Is Roswell, Georgia a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 32.1% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Roswell would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,452 at the same national wage assumption used above.