Talbot County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Talbot County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Talbot County spend about 82 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 340 hours, about 14.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 73% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 17.2 minutes.

Talbot County holds about 0.1% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Talbot County would save about 136 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $4,219 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)
Talbot County	40.8 min	81.7 min	340 hrs/yr	$10,547	322
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 40.8 minutes to get to work in Talbot County. That's 82% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county in Georgia

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Talbot County

• Car: 85.8%
• Worked at Home: 9.0%
• Other: 3.9%
• Motorcycle: 1.1% unusually high
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Talbot County: 12.2 times more than the Georgia average (1.1% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Talbot County: 4.0 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.3%).

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

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Talbot County: just 0.3%, 4.4 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Talbot County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Talbot 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	Worked at Home	Other	Motorcycle	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	91.5%	0.0%	7.1%	0.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.8%	0.0%	8.8%	0.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	89.6%	0.0%	9.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.5%	1.6%	8.1%	0.0%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	87.0%	2.1%	9.8%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	87.6%	3.1%	7.8%	0.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.2%	2.6%	5.0%	0.3%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	91.2%	2.1%	5.0%	0.2%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.7%	2.9%	4.4%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.8%	1.6%	3.1%	0.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.4%	1.4%	2.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	96.7%	1.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	95.7%	2.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.1%	4.9%	2.9%	0.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.1%	6.3%	2.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.8%	9.0%	3.9%	1.1%	0.3%	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 96.7%. Overall it fell from 91.5% in 2009 to 85.8% in 2024, down 5.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Talbot County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 9.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Talbot County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Talbot County?

The bars show when commuters in Talbot 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 Talbot County7.0% Georgia5.2%	7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Talbot County3.6% Georgia3.9%	3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Talbot County2.8% Georgia4.6%	2.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Talbot County9.1% Georgia9.4%	9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Talbot County16.2% Georgia9.6%	16.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Talbot County13.4% Georgia14.9%	13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Talbot County7.8% Georgia11.5%	7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Talbot County10.2% Georgia11.6%	10.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Talbot County2.6% Georgia5.1%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Talbot County1.7% Georgia6.7%	1.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Talbot County3.3% Georgia3.1%	3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Talbot County0.6% Georgia1.4%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Talbot County13.2% Georgia6.4%	13.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Talbot County8.4% Georgia6.7%	8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Talbot County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.6% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 13.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 47.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.2%) 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 Talbot 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 Talbot 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 Talbot 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	Talbot County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:09 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:04 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Talbot County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Talbot County now leave 13 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 Talbot County has moved 21 minutes later.

How does Talbot County's commute time compare?

Metric	Talbot County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	40.8 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.0%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Talbot County is 40.8 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.0% 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