Union City Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Union City, 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 Union City: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Union City spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 254 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the Georgia average of 23.6 minutes each way, a difference of 6.8 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Union City would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,147 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)
Union City	30.5 min	60.9 min	254 hrs/yr	$7,868	2,328
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.

Union City Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.5 minutes to get to work in Union City. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 15.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Union City

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Union City: 4049843.2 times less than the Georgia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Union City: 3.7 times less than the Georgia average (0.4% vs 1.3%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Union City: 9.6 times more than the Georgia average (4.2% vs 0.4%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Union City: just 0.5%, 3.2 times below the Georgia average of 1.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Union City, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Union City 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	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	88.1%	2.0%	0.3%	7.0%	1.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.2%	2.4%	0.2%	7.5%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	88.7%	2.8%	0.2%	6.5%	0.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	89.3%	2.5%	0.2%	6.3%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	89.0%	3.3%	0.1%	5.3%	0.5%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	87.6%	4.1%	0.2%	6.0%	0.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	86.7%	4.7%	0.1%	6.1%	0.7%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	86.8%	3.9%	0.1%	6.5%	1.2%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	86.6%	4.6%	0.1%	6.3%	0.8%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	88.8%	4.3%	0.3%	4.6%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	87.5%	4.8%	0.3%	5.6%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.6%	4.3%	2.5%	4.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	84.1%	7.7%	4.3%	3.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	83.1%	10.1%	3.8%	2.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	78.3%	14.1%	3.6%	3.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	77.2%	15.9%	4.2%	1.9%	0.4%	0.4%	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 2012 at 89.3%. Overall it fell from 88.1% in 2009 to 77.2% in 2024, down 10.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Union City: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 15.9% in 2024, up 13.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 7.0% to 1.9% of workers (down 5.1 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 Union City

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Union City?

The bars show when commuters in Union City 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		6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		11.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Union City is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Georgia. Early starts are more common than in Georgia: 17.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Georgia: 37.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (36.0%) 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 Union City, 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 Union City 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 Union City 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	Union City	Georgia	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:45 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Union City were on the road by 7:45 AM, 18 minutes later than in 2009 (7:26 AM). Across Georgia, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Union City now leave 7 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 Union City has moved 8 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Union City in the whole series.

How does Union City's commute time compare?

Metric	Union City	Georgia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.5 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	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.9%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.9%	1.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Union City is 30.5 minutes, longer than the 23.6 minutes in Georgia.

1.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.1% in Georgia. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.3% in Georgia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Union City, GA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Union City, GA is the 3rd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 29,973 residents against a local median of 39,616. Union City, GA sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these cities turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 10% above the local median at 30.5 min against 27.6 min. Union City, GA has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Union City, GA	29,973	30.5 min #3/4	15.9% #4/4	7:45 AM #4/4
South Fulton, GA	102,509	31.0 min	17.8%	7:37 AM
Fairburn, GA	21,806	27.6 min	17.8%	7:25 AM
East Point, GA	39,616	27.2 min	19.0%	7:36 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Union City, Georgia.

Is living in Union City, Georgia good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 254 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,868 at a typical national wage. That's 29% more than the typical Georgia commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Union City, Georgia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Union City, Georgia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.