Photo: Bubba73 · CC BY-SA 3.0Bartow has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Hardly any stay in Bartow for work; outside it, Wadley is the main destination (19%, 4 miles). There are 18 jobs in Bartow, against 74 working residents. For 4% of workers, the job is at home (Georgia 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bartow by day and by night
On a workday 74 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 18 people come in from elsewhere.
About 120 people are in Bartow on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 Bartow goes to work
Where Bartow clocks in
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.
Goods, not services: 83% of the jobs in Bartow
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bartow, 2013 → 2023: 78 → 18. 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 Bartow’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Bartow: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bartow workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 123 commuters (the 4% 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.
Half of Bartow commutes less than 30 miles
About 31% 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 Bartow: questions
What is the median household income in Bartow?
$44,000 (±$41,750) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bartow?
10.6%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bartow?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bartow work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wadley (19%, 4 mi), Augusta (9%, 40 mi), Waynesboro (8%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bartow without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 25% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bartow, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bartow
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.