Towns County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Towns County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Towns County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.

Towns 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 Towns County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,873 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)
Towns County	18.1 min	36.3 min	151 hrs/yr	$4,683	591
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 18.1 minutes to get to work in Towns County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 84% of counties in Georgia

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Towns County

• Car: 79.3%
• Worked at Home: 13.6%
• Walked: 5.6% unusually high
• Bicycle: 1.0% unusually high
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually common in Towns County: 4.3 times more than the Georgia average (5.6% vs 1.3%).

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

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

Biking is unusually common in Towns County: 6.7 times more than the Georgia average (1.0% vs 0.2%).

Towns County stands out for active commuting: 6.6% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.6 times the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Towns County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Towns 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.0%	5.4%	3.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	88.3%	4.9%	6.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	85.4%	4.5%	10.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	85.3%	5.0%	9.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	84.6%	5.6%	8.1%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	86.1%	4.4%	7.9%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	85.8%	5.2%	6.9%	0.1%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.2%	5.0%	3.4%	0.1%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.6%	5.4%	3.0%	0.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.0%	5.1%	3.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.3%	4.5%	2.9%	0.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.6%	3.6%	3.5%	0.0%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.4%	5.5%	3.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.5%	7.8%	3.2%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	81.7%	10.9%	5.5%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	79.3%	13.6%	5.6%	1.0%	0.6%	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 91.6%. Overall it fell from 91.0% in 2009 to 79.3% in 2024, down 11.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Towns County: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 13.6% in 2024, up 8.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 10.2% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 5.6%.

Commute Start Times in Towns County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Towns County?

The bars show when commuters in Towns 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 Towns County3.3% Georgia5.2%	3.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Towns County2.6% Georgia3.9%	2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Towns County3.6% Georgia4.6%	3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Towns County6.0% Georgia9.4%	6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Towns County10.1% Georgia9.6%	10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Towns County9.9% Georgia14.9%	9.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Towns County16.4% Georgia11.5%	16.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Towns County12.6% Georgia11.6%	12.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Towns County6.6% Georgia5.1%	6.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Towns County11.1% Georgia6.7%	11.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Towns County2.9% Georgia3.1%	2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Towns County3.6% Georgia1.4%	3.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Towns County7.7% Georgia6.4%	7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Towns County3.6% Georgia6.7%	3.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Towns County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 9.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Georgia's: 49.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (28.9%) 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 Towns 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 Towns 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 Towns 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	Towns County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:48 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:49 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:56 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:57 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:55 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:55 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:53 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:51 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:51 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:55 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:58 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:00 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:57 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Towns County were on the road by 7:57 AM, 15 minutes later than in 2009 (7:42 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Towns County now leave 19 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 Towns County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Towns County's commute time compare?

Metric	Towns County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.1 min	23.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	13.6%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	5.6%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Towns County is 18.1 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 5.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau