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Taliaferro County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Taliaferro County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Taliaferro County 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.

Taliaferro 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 Taliaferro County 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)
Taliaferro County 23.7 min 47.5 min 198 hrs/yr $6,130 227
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Georgia
  1. Chattahoochee County (8.6 min)
  2. Ben Hill County (12.7 min)
  3. Tift County (15.8 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Georgia
  1. Talbot County (40.8 min)
  2. McIntosh County (37.7 min)
  3. Paulding County (36.4 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Taliaferro County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Taliaferro County. That's 6% longer 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 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Taliaferro County

  • Car: 88.9%
  • Worked at Home: 9.9%
  • Walked: 1.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Other: < 0.1%

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

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Taliaferro County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Taliaferro 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.

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 Walked Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle Other
2009 89.1% 3.8% 2.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 4.4%
2010 85.0% 2.3% 2.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 10.1%
2011 86.6% 1.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 11.5%
2012 91.2% 0.7% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 7.4%
2013 92.5% 0.9% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 6.3%
2014 89.8% 2.5% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 7.3%
2015 93.5% 2.1% 1.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 3.2%
2016 94.5% 1.7% 0.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.7%
2017 95.4% 1.6% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.4%
2018 95.3% 2.6% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.9%
2019 92.2% 6.2% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7%
2020 89.0% 10.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2021 85.7% 12.0% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2022 83.7% 14.5% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2023 86.1% 12.4% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2024 88.9% 9.9% 1.1% 0.0% 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 was highest in 2017 at 95.4% and lowest in 2022 at 83.7%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 89.1% in 2009 and 88.9% in 2024. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Taliaferro County: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 6.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.1% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 14.5% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 9.9%.

Commute Start Times in Taliaferro County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Taliaferro County?

The bars show when commuters in Taliaferro 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
9.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
0.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
14.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
7.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
7.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
9.9%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Taliaferro County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 45.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.7%) 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 Taliaferro 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 Taliaferro 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 Taliaferro 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Taliaferro County Georgia United States
2009 7:22 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:21 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:24 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:15 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:26 AM 7:37 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:12 AM 7:37 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:19 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:12 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:13 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:04 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:04 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2020 6:51 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:00 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:32 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:24 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:21 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Taliaferro County were on the road by 7:21 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Taliaferro County now leave 17 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 Taliaferro County has moved 17 minutes later.

How does Taliaferro County's commute time compare?

Metric Taliaferro County Georgia US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.7 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 9.9% 15.9% 15.0%
Walked 1.1% 1.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.1% 3.2%

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

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Taliaferro County, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Taliaferro County, GA is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 1,558 residents against a local median of 9,549. The measure that sets Taliaferro County, GA apart most is work from home: 9.9%, 238% above the local median of 2.9%.

The counties themselves spread 13.6% on work from home, so Taliaferro County, GA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Taliaferro County, GA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Taliaferro County, GA 1,558 23.7 min #3/6 9.9% #2/6 7:21 AM #3/6
Wilkes County, GA 9,549 30.2 min 2.9% 7:30 AM
Warren County, GA 5,170 21.2 min 2.1% 7:20 AM
Greene County, GA 20,109 21.9 min 15.7% 7:16 AM
Hancock County, GA 8,650 27.8 min 2.4% 7:22 AM
Oglethorpe County, GA 15,509 31.0 min 9.4% 7:23 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Taliaferro County, Georgia.

Is commuting expensive in Taliaferro County, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 198 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,130 at a typical national wage.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Taliaferro County, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Taliaferro County, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Taliaferro County, Georgia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.1% in Georgia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Georgia have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Georgia, the shortest average commutes are in Chattahoochee County (8.6 min), Ben Hill County (12.7 min), Tift County (15.8 min). The longest are in Talbot County (40.8 min), McIntosh County (37.7 min), Paulding County (36.4 min).