Stewart County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Stewart County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stewart County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 4.8 minutes.

Stewart 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 Stewart County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,952 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)
Stewart County	18.9 min	37.8 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,881	208
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.

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On average, it takes 18.9 minutes to get to work in Stewart County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 75% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 0.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Stewart County

• Car: 98.2% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.8%
• Worked at Home: 0.6% unusually low
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

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

Walking is unusually rare in Stewart County: 3.8 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.3%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Stewart County: 25.9 times less than the Georgia average (0.6% vs 15.9%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Stewart County: just 0.3%, 4.2 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Stewart County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Stewart 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	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	86.7%	0.0%	9.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.5%
2010	91.2%	0.0%	3.4%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.5%
2011	95.0%	0.0%	3.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2012	94.5%	0.0%	1.5%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	93.2%	0.0%	2.5%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	93.5%	0.0%	2.8%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	94.5%	0.0%	2.1%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.1%	0.0%	0.8%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.0%	0.0%	0.8%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	96.7%	0.0%	0.1%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	97.1%	0.0%	0.3%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	99.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	99.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	99.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	98.8%	0.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	98.2%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	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 2020 at 99.7%. Overall it rose from 86.7% in 2009 to 98.2% in 2024, up 11.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Public transit gained the most ground in Stewart County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 0.8% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 9.4% to 0.6% of workers (down 8.8 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 4.1% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Stewart County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Stewart County?

The bars show when commuters in Stewart 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 Stewart County1.4% Georgia5.2%	1.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Stewart County10.8% Georgia3.9%	10.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Stewart County8.9% Georgia4.6%	8.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Stewart County4.5% Georgia9.4%	4.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Stewart County20.7% Georgia9.6%	20.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Stewart County11.9% Georgia14.9%	11.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Stewart County7.0% Georgia11.5%	7.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Stewart County9.9% Georgia11.6%	9.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Stewart County2.1% Georgia5.1%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Stewart County1.6% Georgia6.7%	1.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Stewart County0.5% Georgia3.1%	0.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Stewart County0.0% Georgia1.4%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Stewart County12.3% Georgia6.4%	12.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Stewart County8.5% Georgia6.7%	8.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Stewart County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 20.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.6% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 21.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 49.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Stewart 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 Stewart 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 Stewart 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	Stewart County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Stewart County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:26 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Stewart County now leave 28 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 Stewart County has moved 10 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Stewart County in the whole series.

How does Stewart County's commute time compare?

Metric	Stewart County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.9 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	0.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Stewart County is 18.9 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau