Fair Oaks Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Fair Oaks, Virginia: 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 Fair Oaks: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fair Oaks spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 219 hours, about 9.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 3.1 minutes.

Fair Oaks holds about 0.4% of Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Fair Oaks would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,712 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)
Fair Oaks	26.2 min	52.5 min	219 hrs/yr	$6,780	2,753
Virginia	23.2 min	46.3 min	193 hrs/yr	$5,986	1,531
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.

Fair Oaks Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.2 minutes to get to work in Fair Oaks. That's 17% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 28.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fair Oaks

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Fair Oaks: 2235832.5 times less than the Virginia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Fair Oaks, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fair Oaks 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	86.7%	4.7%	1.4%	0.9%	6.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	83.3%	4.4%	3.3%	0.9%	7.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	84.0%	5.0%	2.5%	0.8%	7.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	84.9%	4.1%	2.5%	0.9%	7.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	83.9%	3.9%	2.8%	1.4%	7.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	82.4%	4.1%	2.0%	1.8%	8.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	83.2%	4.7%	1.4%	1.4%	8.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%
2016	81.9%	4.8%	1.8%	1.4%	9.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	82.0%	4.8%	1.6%	1.0%	9.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%
2018	81.8%	5.4%	1.2%	0.7%	10.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	83.6%	6.0%	1.7%	0.3%	7.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	79.7%	12.1%	1.1%	0.4%	6.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	75.4%	18.5%	1.0%	0.6%	4.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	70.6%	23.6%	1.6%	0.8%	3.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	67.9%	26.7%	2.8%	1.0%	1.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	65.8%	28.6%	3.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 86.7% in 2009 to 65.8% in 2024, down 20.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fair Oaks: its share of workers rose from 4.7% in 2009 to 28.6% in 2024, up 23.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 22.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 6.3% to 0.8% of workers (down 5.5 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 Fair Oaks

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fair Oaks?

The bars show when commuters in Fair Oaks 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 Virginia for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		2.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		13.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.3%

Fair Oaks Virginia Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Fair Oaks is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Virginia. Early starts are less common than in Virginia: 8.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Virginia'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 (30.5%) 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 Fair Oaks, 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 Fair Oaks 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 Fair Oaks next to Virginia 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	Fair Oaks	Virginia	United States
2009	7:54 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:55 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:01 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:55 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:49 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:43 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:49 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:55 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:58 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:01 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:07 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:07 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:08 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fair Oaks were on the road by 8:08 AM, 14 minutes later than in 2009 (7:54 AM). The shift is sharper than across Virginia, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Fair Oaks now leave 30 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 Fair Oaks has moved 13 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Fair Oaks in the whole series.

How does Fair Oaks's commute time compare?

Metric	Fair Oaks	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.2 min	23.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	09:00 AM – 09:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	28.6%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	3.1%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fair Oaks is 26.2 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 3.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Fair Oaks, Virginia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Fair Oaks, Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 219 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,780 at a typical national wage. That's 13% more than the typical Virginia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Fair Oaks, Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Fair Oaks, Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is Fair Oaks, Virginia a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 28.6% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Fair Oaks would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,712 at the same national wage assumption used above.