Thomas County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Thomas County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Thomas County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.2 minutes.

Thomas County holds about 0.4% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Thomas County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,702 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)
Thomas County	16.5 min	32.9 min	137 hrs/yr	$4,255	427
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 16.5 minutes to get to work in Thomas County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Thomas County

• Car: 90.7%
• Worked at Home: 7.8%
• Walked: 0.5%
• Other: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Thomas County: 6.1 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Thomas County: 4.3 times less than the Georgia average (0.3% vs 1.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Thomas County: 8.2 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Thomas County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Thomas 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
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• Public Transportation
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• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.4%	2.7%	1.9%	4.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	92.1%	2.4%	1.3%	3.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	93.1%	2.7%	1.3%	2.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	93.3%	2.4%	1.1%	2.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	92.5%	2.8%	1.2%	2.0%	0.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%
2014	93.4%	2.8%	1.2%	1.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%
2015	93.6%	2.6%	1.2%	1.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%
2016	93.3%	2.1%	1.2%	1.2%	0.0%	1.4%	0.5%	0.3%
2017	94.3%	2.0%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	1.2%	0.6%	0.4%
2018	95.2%	2.3%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	95.1%	2.4%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	94.1%	3.7%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	94.4%	4.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	92.8%	5.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.7%	6.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.7%	7.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	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 95.2%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 90.4% in 2009 and 90.7% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Thomas County: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 7.8% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.9% to 0.5% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Thomas County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Thomas County?

The bars show when commuters in Thomas 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 Thomas County3.6% Georgia5.2%	3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Thomas County1.9% Georgia3.9%	1.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Thomas County7.3% Georgia4.6%	7.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Thomas County7.6% Georgia9.4%	7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Thomas County11.4% Georgia9.6%	11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Thomas County17.7% Georgia14.9%	17.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Thomas County14.6% Georgia11.5%	14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Thomas County11.6% Georgia11.6%	11.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Thomas County2.5% Georgia5.1%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Thomas County6.5% Georgia6.7%	6.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Thomas County3.0% Georgia3.1%	3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Thomas County0.8% Georgia1.4%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Thomas County6.9% Georgia6.4%	6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Thomas County4.6% Georgia6.7%	4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Thomas County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.7% 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 concentrated than in Georgia: 55.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 Thomas 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 Thomas 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 Thomas 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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• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Thomas County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Thomas County were on the road by 7:31 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Thomas County now leave 7 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 Thomas County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Thomas County's commute time compare?

Metric	Thomas County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.5 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Thomas County is 16.5 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau