Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House · Photo: Cdrcody · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Fayetteville has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 15,581 people come in to work
The two grades for Fayetteville are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Fayetteville has 16,504 jobs, and 8,715 of its residents work somewhere. About one in ten work in Fayetteville; the top destination outside it is Atlanta (18%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Fayetteville
Fayetteville draws workers from far and wide
The 16,504 jobs in Fayetteville are filled from a wide area. Fayetteville’s own residents hold 6% and the ten next-biggest home towns 18%; the other 76% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Fayetteville is where the jobs are
Fayetteville has 16,504 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Fayetteville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 28 across Georgia. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
The figures behind Fayetteville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fayetteville is better than 57% of U.S. towns, #78 of 263 in Georgia. Job access by car holds Fayetteville’s grade up (ahead of 85% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fayetteville could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
The towns that send workers to Fayetteville
Where Fayetteville clocks in
18% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The daily flow of workers through Fayetteville
On a workday 7,792 residents head out to work and 923 work right here.
About 28,000 people are in Fayetteville on a workday afternoon, 38% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Each way, about 33 minutes from Fayetteville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fayetteville workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,358 commuters (the 11% who work from home are left out). Across Georgia: 84% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The kinds of work in Fayetteville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fayetteville, 2014 → 2024: 12,660 → 16,504. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fayetteville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Fayetteville
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around Fayetteville: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fayetteville is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns, #198 of 263 in Georgia. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.1% across Georgia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 8,312 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.3% of Fayetteville households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fayetteville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 14,000 to 28,000, Fayetteville ranks 1,125th of 1,931 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ada Township MI | 14,769 | $168K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 160 | Holly Springs GA | 20,261 | $114K | 3.9% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 256 | Vinings GA | 14,390 | $95K | 6.2% | 2.2% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 367 | Decatur GA | 25,276 | $139K | 6.2% | 4.3% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,123 | Hillcrest Heights MD | 16,063 | $83K | 10.7% | 7.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,124 | Davenport FL | 18,110 | $74K | 14.0% | 2.7% | 1% | B |
| 1,125 | Fayetteville GA | 20,465 | $82K | 8.1% | 7.4% | 11% | B |
| 1,126 | Brookings SD | 25,355 | $63K | 16.9% | 4.5% | 61% | B |
| 1,127 | Middletown DE | 25,798 | $113K | 8.4% | 8.0% | 14% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,931 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 28% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Fayetteville, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Fayetteville: questions
What is the median household income in Fayetteville?
$82,188 (±$12,253) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fayetteville?
8.1%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fayetteville?
33 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fayetteville work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Atlanta (18%, 22 mi), College Park (6%, 13 mi), Peachtree City (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Fayetteville walkable?
Fayetteville is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fayetteville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fayetteville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fayetteville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.