Georgetown Civil War Armory · Photo: Jacqueline Perlmutter · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Georgetown works elsewhere
Employers in Georgetown report 383 jobs for 844 working residents. The two grades for Georgetown are B− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Only 4% work in Georgetown itself; outside it, Sacramento draws the most (8%, 42 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Georgetown and work: the main findings
Georgetown’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Georgetown is Sacramento, 42 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (69) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Georgetown
64% of Georgetown residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 44% of the jobs based in Georgetown pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 96% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 844 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Georgetown’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Georgetown is better than 46% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Georgetown’s grade up ($91,765, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (19.4%) is left out: Georgetown’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Georgetown could be anywhere from C− to B+.
How far it is to work from Georgetown
About 28% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The kinds of work in Georgetown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Georgetown, 2013 → 2023: 359 → 383. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Georgetown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Georgetown on a workday afternoon
On a workday 807 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 346 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Georgetown on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Georgetown: the destinations
Where Georgetown clocks in
8% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
Commuting from Georgetown: about 32 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Georgetown workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 571 commuters (the 13% who work from home are left out). Across California: 79% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
For most of Georgetown, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Georgetown is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 16.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 658 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.0% of Georgetown households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Georgetown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Georgetown next to U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200: 2,382nd of 4,995 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Ross CA | 2,304 | $250K | 4.8% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | Fairbanks Ranch CA | 2,703 | $250K | 5.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,380 | Jackson Township OH | 2,382 | $80K | 8.6% | 4.9% | 14% | B− |
| 2,381 | Monroe Township OH | 2,242 | $82K | 8.3% | 5.6% | 1% | B− |
| 2,382 | Georgetown CA | 2,403 | $92K | 7.2% | 19.4% | 4% | B− |
| 2,383 | Sandy Valley NV | 1,742 | $58K | 5.8% | 13.2% | 4% | B− |
| 2,384 | Woodworth OH | 1,824 | $60K | 11.8% | 0.0% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Georgetown, the top three, the last and three more from California.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, 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 Georgetown: questions
What is the median household income in Georgetown?
$91,765 (±$22,652) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Georgetown?
7.2%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Georgetown?
32 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Georgetown work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sacramento (8%, 42 mi), Placerville (6%, 13 mi), El Dorado Hills (5%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Georgetown walkable?
Georgetown is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 16% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Georgetown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Georgetown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Georgetown
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.