Worth County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Worth County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Worth County spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 218 hours, about 9.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Worth County holds about 0.2% of Georgia's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Worth County would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,701 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)
Worth County	26.1 min	52.3 min	218 hrs/yr	$6,754	388
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 26.1 minutes to get to work in Worth County. That's 17% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Worth County

• Car: 88.9%
• Worked at Home: 6.0%
• Other: 3.2%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.8%
• Taxi: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Worth County: 7.3 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Worth County: 4.0 times less than the Georgia average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Worth County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Worth 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
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	97.5%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	97.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	96.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	96.7%	1.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.7%	2.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.7%	2.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.7%	3.2%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.0%	3.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.7%	4.6%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.3%	3.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.6%	2.8%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	93.6%	2.4%	2.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	92.0%	3.4%	3.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	92.1%	3.8%	1.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	89.4%	5.1%	3.2%	1.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.9%	6.0%	3.2%	1.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 97.5% in 2009 to 88.9% in 2024, down 8.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Worth County: its share of workers rose from 0.8% in 2009 to 6.0% in 2024, up 5.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Worth County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Worth County?

The bars show when commuters in Worth 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 Worth County3.2% Georgia5.2%	3.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Worth County2.7% Georgia3.9%	2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Worth County5.6% Georgia4.6%	5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Worth County11.3% Georgia9.4%	11.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Worth County14.3% Georgia9.6%	14.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Worth County17.2% Georgia14.9%	17.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Worth County19.8% Georgia11.5%	19.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Worth County7.3% Georgia11.6%	7.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Worth County2.2% Georgia5.1%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Worth County5.3% Georgia6.7%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Worth County0.7% Georgia3.1%	0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Worth County1.9% Georgia1.4%	1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Worth County3.2% Georgia6.4%	3.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Worth County5.5% Georgia6.7%	5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Worth County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Georgia. Early starts are less common than in Georgia: 11.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Georgia: 58.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.5%) 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 Worth 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 Worth 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 Worth 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.

• Worth County
• Georgia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Worth County	Georgia	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Worth County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Worth County now leave 15 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 Worth County has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Worth County's commute time compare?

Metric	Worth County	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.1 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.0%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Worth County is 26.1 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

0.8% 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