Stephens County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Stephens County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stephens County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.2 minutes.

Stephens 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 Stephens County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,698 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)
Stephens County	16.4 min	32.9 min	137 hrs/yr	$4,246	723
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 16.4 minutes to get to work in Stephens County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Stephens County

• Car: 88.9%
• Worked at Home: 7.8%
• Walked: 2.7%
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Other: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Stephens County: 4.4 times more than the Georgia average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Stephens County: 21.8 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Stephens County: 16.9 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Stephens County: 3.6 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Stephens County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Stephens 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
• Motorcycle
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• Other
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.8%	3.8%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.5%	2.9%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.5%	4.1%	2.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.6%	5.1%	2.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.0%	4.5%	2.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.1%	3.9%	2.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.3%	4.8%	2.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.8%	4.7%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.0%	4.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.2%	4.9%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.6%	4.6%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.7%	4.4%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.0%	6.1%	3.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	90.3%	6.2%	2.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	90.7%	6.4%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2024	88.9%	7.8%	2.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2010 at 94.5%. Overall it fell from 93.8% in 2009 to 88.9% in 2024, down 4.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Stephens County: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 7.8% in 2024, up 4.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Stephens County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Stephens County?

The bars show when commuters in Stephens 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 Stephens County5.3% Georgia5.2%	5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Stephens County6.1% Georgia3.9%	6.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Stephens County6.5% Georgia4.6%	6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Stephens County9.4% Georgia9.4%	9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Stephens County14.3% Georgia9.6%	14.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Stephens County14.5% Georgia14.9%	14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Stephens County11.7% Georgia11.5%	11.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Stephens County5.3% Georgia11.6%	5.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Stephens County4.0% Georgia5.1%	4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Stephens County2.8% Georgia6.7%	2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Stephens County2.0% Georgia3.1%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Stephens County1.9% Georgia1.4%	1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Stephens County9.2% Georgia6.4%	9.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Stephens County7.1% Georgia6.7%	7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Stephens County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 17.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 45.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.0%) 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 Stephens 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 Stephens 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 Stephens 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Stephens County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Stephens County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Stephens County now leave 20 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 Stephens County has moved 8 minutes earlier.

How does Stephens County's commute time compare?

Metric	Stephens County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.4 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.7%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Stephens County is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.1% 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