Work & commute · Fair Oaks

Work & commute in Fair Oaks, GA

Most working residents leave Fair Oaks for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Atlanta (14%), Marietta (12%) and Smyrna (5%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

40 of 2,509 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,469 Fair Oaks residents head out of town to work, 40 work right here, and 3,516 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fair Oaks.

2,469live here, work elsewhere

40live and work here

3,516work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fair Oaks goes to work

Atlanta12.9 mi away

14%355

Marietta2.3 mi away

12%300

Smyrna4.3 mi away

5%121

Sandy Springs10.1 mi away

5%114

Alpharetta18.7 mi away

2%55

South Fulton19.8 mi away

2%46

Mableton7.6 mi away

2%40

Fair Oaks (in town)right here

2%40

Kennesaw8.9 mi away

1%35

Dunwoody13.4 mi away

1%34

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%1,369

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Fair Oaks commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

42%

40%

10%

42%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fair Oaks is balanced between jobs and homes

1.42jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.42 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Fair Oaks are

3,556 jobs are based in Fair Oaks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fair Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fair Oaks

3,556 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities42%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Fair Oaks residents hold

2,509 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+3%

Jobs based in Fair Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 3,446 → 3,556. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.