Fairburn Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Fairburn, Georgia: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Fairburn: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fairburn spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 230 hours, about 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 4.0 minutes.

Fairburn 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 Fairburn would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,852 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)
Fairburn	27.6 min	55.2 min	230 hrs/yr	$7,130	2,487
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.

Fairburn Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.6 minutes to get to work in Fairburn. That's 23% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 17.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fairburn

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

Walking is unusually rare in Fairburn: 5.5 times less than the Georgia average (0.2% vs 1.3%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Fairburn: 3.5 times more than the Georgia average (1.5% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Fairburn: 37.6 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Fairburn: just 0.2%, 6.0 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Fairburn, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fairburn 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Taxi	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.7%	1.7%	0.1%	5.9%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.6%	1.5%	0.0%	5.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.3%	1.8%	0.0%	4.1%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.6%	2.0%	0.2%	4.9%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.0%	2.9%	0.2%	3.6%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	89.9%	4.4%	0.2%	4.3%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	87.6%	6.8%	0.2%	4.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	88.7%	5.1%	0.2%	5.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	89.7%	5.4%	0.0%	4.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	90.9%	4.5%	0.0%	3.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.6%	3.7%	0.0%	3.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	85.7%	7.8%	1.3%	2.3%	2.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	80.1%	14.2%	1.9%	2.1%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	78.2%	15.9%	1.7%	1.8%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	79.6%	15.2%	1.6%	2.1%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	78.3%	17.8%	1.5%	1.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2011 at 92.3% and lowest in 2022 at 78.2%. Overall it fell from 90.7% in 2009 to 78.3% in 2024, down 12.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fairburn: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 17.8% in 2024, up 16.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.9% to 1.3% of workers (down 4.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Fairburn

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fairburn?

The bars show when commuters in Fairburn 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		12.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Fairburn is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 20.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 44.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.7%) 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 Fairburn, 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 Fairburn 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 Fairburn 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Fairburn	Georgia	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:45 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fairburn were on the road by 7:25 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Fairburn now leave 13 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Fairburn's commute time compare?

Metric	Fairburn	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.6 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	17.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fairburn is 27.6 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

1.3% 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

Fairburn, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Fairburn, GA compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Fairburn, GA	21,806	27.6 min #1/3	17.8% #1/3	7:25 AM #1/3
Union City, GA	29,973	30.5 min	15.9%	7:45 AM
South Fulton, GA	102,509	31.0 min	17.8%	7:37 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Fairburn, Georgia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Fairburn, Georgia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 230 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,130 at a typical national wage. That's 17% more than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Fairburn, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Fairburn, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.