Household incomes put Georgiana near the very bottom of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are among the lowest in the country. Below the poverty line: 24.1% of residents, next to 15.6% across Alabama. Jobs and income earn Georgiana D−; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Georgiana apart on work
Fewer jobs are based in Georgiana than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Georgiana fell from 669 in 2014 to 181 in 2024, −73%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
40% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Georgiana workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 9% across Alabama. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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; with 489 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Georgiana’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Georgiana is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Georgiana’s grade.
Unemployment (9.0%) is left out: Georgiana’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Georgiana stays D−.
What Georgiana’s employers do
181 jobs are based in Georgiana.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Georgiana, 2014 → 2024: 669 → 181. 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 Georgiana’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Georgiana
About 40% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
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.
About 22 minutes to work from Georgiana
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Georgiana workers work from home, vs 9% across Alabama. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 556 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Alabama: 88% 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.
A workday in Georgiana: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 461 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 153 people come in from elsewhere.
About 970 people are in Georgiana on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.37 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
18% of working residents work in Greenville
Where Georgiana clocks in
18% of workers
10% of workers
9% 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.
Driving is how Georgiana gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Georgiana is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, above the 1.7% across Alabama.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 556 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). 8.9% of Georgiana households have no vehicle (Alabama 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Georgiana’s commuters take a bus or train.
Georgiana and other U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Shoal Creek AL | 1,328 | $218K | 0.0% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 274 | Rock Creek AL | 1,103 | $84K | 2.5% | 2.8% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 294 | Blue Ridge AL | 1,190 | $128K | 6.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,758 | Logan WV | 1,312 | $30K | 44.5% | 24.1% | 13% | D− |
| 4,759 | Kettleman City CA | 1,002 | $48K | 31.1% | 10.9% | <1% | D− |
| 4,760 | Georgiana AL | 1,274 | $24K | 24.1% | 9.0% | 6% | D− |
| 4,761 | Akutan AK | 1,591 | $36K | 20.2% | 4.9% | — | D− |
| 4,762 | Miami AZ | 1,514 | $41K | 26.4% | 17.3% | 3% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Georgiana, the top three, the last and three more from Alabama.
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 Georgiana: questions
What is the median household income in Georgiana?
$24,321 (±$7,162) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,999 across Alabama and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Georgiana?
24.1%, against 15.6% across Alabama and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Georgiana?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Alabama and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Georgiana work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (18%, 16 mi), Montgomery (10%, 56 mi), Andalusia (9%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Georgiana walkable?
Georgiana is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Georgiana without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Georgiana, from the people who make the trip.
More of Georgiana
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.