Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Alapaha commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Alapaha report 91 jobs; 173 of its residents have a job. Only 5% work in Alapaha; the top destination outside it is Nashville (16%, 12 miles). For 2% of workers, the job is at home, next to 16% for Georgia as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Alapaha on a workday afternoon
On a workday 165 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 83 people come in from elsewhere.
About 410 people are in Alapaha on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
The towns that employ Alapaha’s residents
Where Alapaha clocks in
16% of workers
10% of workers
8% 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.
Alapaha works in goods: 49% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Alapaha, 2013 → 2023: 60 → 91. 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 Alapaha’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Alapaha takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Alapaha workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 166 commuters (the 2% 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 commute from Alapaha, by distance
About 29% 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.
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 Alapaha: questions
What is the median household income in Alapaha?
$32,569 (±$10,510) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Alapaha?
31.8%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Alapaha?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Alapaha work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Nashville (16%, 12 mi), Tifton (10%, 18 mi), Valdosta (8%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Alapaha without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Alapaha, from the people who make the trip.
More of Alapaha
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.