Most of Arcade commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
There are 268 jobs in Arcade, against 837 working residents. Jobs and income earn Arcade B−; getting around on foot earns it C. Hardly any work in Arcade; the top destination outside it is Athens (19%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Arcade, in brief
The four measures behind Arcade’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Arcade is better than 51% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Arcade’s grade up (ahead of 62% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($68,375, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.3%) is left out: Arcade’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Arcade could be anywhere from C to A−.
Commuting from Arcade: about 34 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Arcade workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 846 commuters (the 10% 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.
Arcade on a workday afternoon
On a workday 832 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 263 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Arcade on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Where Arcade’s working residents head each day
Where Arcade clocks in
13% 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.
Jobs in Arcade: what the 268 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Arcade, 2013 → 2023: 220 → 268. 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 Arcade’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Arcade commutes less than 15 miles
About 18% 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.
For most of Arcade, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Arcade is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 945 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). 0.3% of Arcade households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Arcade’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700, Arcade comes 2,143rd 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Berkeley Lake GA | 2,034 | $166K | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 120 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 200 | Isle of Hope GA | 2,053 | $105K | 1.4% | 1.3% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,141 | Marion WI | 2,091 | $84K | 6.3% | 6.1% | 2% | B− |
| 2,142 | Aristocrat Ranchettes CO | 1,747 | $84K | 16.1% | 11.9% | <1% | B− |
| 2,143 | Arcade GA | 2,035 | $68K | 9.7% | 2.3% | 1% | B− |
| 2,144 | Woodburn IN | 1,628 | $66K | 8.7% | 4.1% | 3% | B− |
| 2,145 | Gibbon NE | 1,913 | $70K | 5.3% | 5.7% | 6% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | 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 Arcade, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Next door is work for 13% of Arcade
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Jefferson. Darker towns draw more of Arcade’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Arcade: questions
What is the median household income in Arcade?
$68,375 (±$15,214) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Arcade?
9.7%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Arcade?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Arcade work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Athens (19%, 12 mi), Jefferson (13%, 6 mi), Commerce (3%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Arcade walkable?
Arcade is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Arcade without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Arcade, from the people who make the trip.
More of Arcade
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.