Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0Barwick has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
1% of workers work from home (Georgia 16%). 15 jobs are based in Barwick, and 124 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Barwick itself; outside it, Thomasville draws the most (31%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Barwick for work, and who comes in
On a workday 124 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 240 people are in Barwick on a workday afternoon, 31% 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 Barwick goes to work
Where Barwick clocks in
31% of workers
9% of workers
3% 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.
A place that makes things: 33% of Barwick’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Barwick, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 15. 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 Barwick’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Barwick, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Barwick workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 126 commuters (the 1% 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 Barwick commutes less than 16 miles
About 23% 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 Barwick: questions
What is the median household income in Barwick?
$32,778 (±$12,595) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Barwick?
37.1%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Barwick?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Barwick work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Thomasville (31%, 15 mi), Moultrie (9%, 20 mi), Tallahassee (3%, 43 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Barwick without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Barwick, from the people who make the trip.
More of Barwick
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.