Wayne County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wayne County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wayne County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Wayne County holds about 0.3% of Georgia's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wayne County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,145 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)
Wayne County	20.8 min	41.5 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,363	345
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

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On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in Wayne County. That's 7% shorter 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 4.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wayne County

• Car: 92.4%
• Worked at Home: 4.5% unusually low
• Other: 1.1%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Wayne County: 4.1 times more than the Georgia average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Wayne County: 5.2 times less than the Georgia average (0.2% vs 1.1%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Wayne County: 3.5 times less than the Georgia average (4.5% vs 15.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Wayne County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wayne 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
• Other
• Walked
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	92.0%	3.2%	1.0%	1.3%	0.1%	1.2%	0.5%	0.7%
2010	92.3%	3.1%	0.8%	1.6%	0.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.7%
2011	92.2%	2.8%	1.7%	1.4%	0.2%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%
2012	92.4%	2.3%	2.0%	1.6%	0.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	93.3%	2.5%	1.9%	1.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	94.1%	1.8%	2.0%	1.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	92.9%	2.2%	3.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	93.9%	1.9%	2.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%
2017	93.5%	2.4%	2.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.5%
2018	94.3%	2.2%	2.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	92.8%	2.9%	2.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.5%
2020	93.0%	3.2%	1.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.7%	1.0%
2021	93.4%	4.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%
2022	93.3%	3.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%
2023	91.4%	4.6%	1.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	1.0%	0.0%
2024	92.4%	4.5%	1.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2018 at 94.3% and lowest in 2023 at 91.4%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 92.0% in 2009 and 92.4% in 2024. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wayne County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 4.5% in 2024, up 1.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Wayne County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wayne County?

The bars show when commuters in Wayne 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 Wayne County5.9% Georgia5.2%	5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wayne County6.1% Georgia3.9%	6.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wayne County2.2% Georgia4.6%	2.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wayne County13.8% Georgia9.4%	13.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wayne County17.7% Georgia9.6%	17.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wayne County19.5% Georgia14.9%	19.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wayne County10.3% Georgia11.5%	10.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wayne County7.7% Georgia11.6%	7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wayne County6.0% Georgia5.1%	6.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wayne County1.9% Georgia6.7%	1.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wayne County1.6% Georgia3.1%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wayne County0.4% Georgia1.4%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wayne County4.2% Georgia6.4%	4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wayne County2.7% Georgia6.7%	2.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wayne County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are about as common as in Georgia: 14.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 55.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (10.7%) 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 Wayne 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 Wayne 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 Wayne 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	Wayne County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:07 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wayne County were on the road by 7:07 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Wayne County now leave 31 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 Wayne County has moved 19 minutes earlier.

How does Wayne County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wayne County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.8 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	4.5%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wayne County is 20.8 minutes, shorter than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau