Taylor County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Taylor County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Taylor County spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 225 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.3 minutes.

Taylor 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 Taylor County would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,787 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)
Taylor County	27.0 min	53.9 min	225 hrs/yr	$6,967	226
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 27.0 minutes to get to work in Taylor County. That's 20% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 73% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Taylor County

• Car: 90.0%
• Worked at Home: 6.5%
• Other: 1.7%
• Public Transportation: 1.6%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Taylor County: 6.8 times less than the Georgia average (0.2% vs 1.3%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Taylor County: 4.0 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Taylor County: just 0.2%, 6.3 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Taylor County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Taylor 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.5%	2.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.2%	2.2%	1.4%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.7%	1.7%	1.6%	0.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.5%	2.4%	1.0%	0.5%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.2%	2.6%	1.4%	0.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.1%	3.3%	1.3%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.0%	3.1%	1.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.9%	2.7%	2.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.9%	0.9%	1.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	97.4%	1.2%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	96.4%	2.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2020	96.0%	2.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2021	96.1%	3.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2022	94.4%	4.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2023	92.7%	4.9%	0.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2024	90.0%	6.5%	1.7%	1.6%	0.2%	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 2018 at 97.4%. Overall it fell from 95.5% in 2009 to 90.0% in 2024, down 5.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Taylor County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit overtook walking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 1.7% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 0.2%.

Commute Start Times in Taylor County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Taylor County?

The bars show when commuters in Taylor 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 Taylor County9.4% Georgia5.2%	9.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Taylor County4.8% Georgia3.9%	4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Taylor County12.1% Georgia4.6%	12.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Taylor County11.0% Georgia9.4%	11.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Taylor County10.0% Georgia9.6%	10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Taylor County16.7% Georgia14.9%	16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Taylor County11.4% Georgia11.5%	11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Taylor County9.5% Georgia11.6%	9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Taylor County2.5% Georgia5.1%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Taylor County1.5% Georgia6.7%	1.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Taylor County3.8% Georgia3.1%	3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Taylor County1.5% Georgia1.4%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Taylor County4.3% Georgia6.4%	4.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Taylor County1.6% Georgia6.7%	1.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Taylor County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 26.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 47.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.7%) 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 Taylor 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 Taylor 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 Taylor 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	Taylor County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:00 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:55 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:54 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:56 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:59 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:59 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:05 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Taylor County were on the road by 7:05 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Taylor County now leave 33 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 Taylor County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Taylor County's commute time compare?

Metric	Taylor County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.0 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	05:30 AM – 05:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.5%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.6%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Taylor County is 27.0 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

1.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau