Columbus

City Commute Profile

Columbus, GA

Where Columbus’s 72,274 resident workers go each day — 58.3% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Atlanta.

GeorgiaLODES 2023 data
71
Commute Score

71 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Columbus at a glance
Employed Residents
72,274
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
19.4mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
58.3%
Share working within the area
Work from home
12.1%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Atlanta
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Columbus proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Columbus commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Columbus

72,274 commutes, one dot at a time

Columbus

Where 72,274 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Columbus, by worker count.

1Columbus0.0 mi42,106
2Atlanta93.1 mi2,072
3Phenix City5.2 mi1,880
4Cusseta-Chattahoochee County unified government11.0 mi961
5West Point30.2 mi944
6LaGrange38.2 mi720
7Macon-Bibb County77.6 mi708
8Albany77.0 mi572

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Columbus.

1Columbus0.0 mi42,106
2Phenix City5.2 mi4,766
3Atlanta93.1 mi669
4Auburn33.1 mi652
5Smiths Station9.7 mi644
6LaGrange38.2 mi529
7Macon-Bibb County77.6 mi529
8Cusseta-Chattahoochee County unified government11.0 mi510

Top industries

The sectors that employ Columbus’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance16.9%
AFAccommodation and Food Services12.2%
RTRetail Trade10.5%
FIFinance and Insurance9.3%
EDEducational Services7.7%
MFManufacturing7.7%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services6.2%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services5.8%
PAPublic Administration4.6%

Columbus city profile

Who lives in Columbus — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
203,711
Median age
35.4yrs
Median household income
$58,073
Median home value
$193,900
Median gross rent
$1,106/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
30.5%
Poverty rate
19.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Columbus

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

5 providers · 1 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps80%
5 Gbps80%
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Columbus

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).