Suwanee Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Suwanee: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Suwanee spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 230 hours, about 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 4.0 minutes.

Suwanee 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 Suwanee would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,854 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)
Suwanee	27.6 min	55.2 min	230 hrs/yr	$7,135	3,362
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.

Suwanee Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.6 minutes to get to work in Suwanee. That's 23% longer 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 25.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Suwanee

• Car: 72.4%
• Worked at Home: 25.4%
• Other: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Walked: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Suwanee: 12.1 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 1.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Suwanee: 3.7 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.1%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Suwanee: just 0.2%, 6.6 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Suwanee, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Suwanee 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
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle
• Walked
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Walked	Motorcycle
2009	90.2%	7.2%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%
2010	90.0%	7.0%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%
2011	89.8%	7.7%	0.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2012	88.7%	8.5%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2013	88.2%	9.7%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	87.7%	10.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	86.8%	10.2%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2016	86.0%	11.1%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%
2017	86.9%	9.1%	1.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2018	88.0%	8.8%	1.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2019	87.5%	8.7%	1.2%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2020	85.0%	12.8%	0.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	80.1%	17.7%	0.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	78.9%	19.1%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	74.9%	23.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	72.4%	25.4%	1.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.2% in 2009 to 72.4% in 2024, down 17.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Suwanee: its share of workers rose from 7.2% in 2009 to 25.4% in 2024, up 18.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Suwanee

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Suwanee?

The bars show when commuters in Suwanee 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 Suwanee4.9% Georgia5.2%	4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Suwanee3.3% Georgia3.9%	3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Suwanee5.8% Georgia4.6%	5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Suwanee8.7% Georgia9.4%	8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Suwanee10.3% Georgia9.6%	10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Suwanee12.7% Georgia14.9%	12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Suwanee10.1% Georgia11.5%	10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Suwanee12.6% Georgia11.6%	12.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Suwanee7.2% Georgia5.1%	7.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Suwanee11.2% Georgia6.7%	11.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Suwanee5.1% Georgia3.1%	5.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Suwanee0.9% Georgia1.4%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Suwanee4.6% Georgia6.4%	4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Suwanee2.5% Georgia6.7%	2.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Suwanee is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 14.0% 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 (24.3%) 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 Suwanee, 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 Suwanee 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 Suwanee 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.

• Suwanee
• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Suwanee	Georgia	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:48 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:52 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:48 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:49 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:48 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:48 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:56 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:53 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:48 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Suwanee were on the road by 7:43 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Suwanee now leave 5 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 Suwanee has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Suwanee's commute time compare?

Metric	Suwanee	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.6 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	25.4%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.1%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Suwanee is 27.6 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau