For about half of its working residents, Bemiss is a commute to Valdosta
For jobs and income Bemiss is better than 44% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (D). Home is the office for 9% of workers (Georgia 16%). Household incomes here are higher than in 71% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Bemiss
More than half of Bemiss works in Valdosta
1,418 working residents, 50%, have their main job in Valdosta, 6.6 miles away across the town line. That’s 50 times as many as work in Bemiss itself. The commute map ↓
Bemiss is a place people come home to
There are 192 jobs based in Bemiss, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bemiss has about 6,600 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Most Bemiss residents work close to home
60% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Commutes from Bemiss are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Georgia worker. Time on the road ↓
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.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Bemiss
Household income holds Bemiss’ grade up ($92,842, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.3%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bemiss could be anywhere from C to B+.
Out of Bemiss to work: where people go
Where Bemiss clocks in
50% of workers
2% of workers
1% 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.
In and out of Bemiss on a workday
On a workday 2,819 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 168 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,600 people are in Bemiss on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
0.07 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far it is to work from Bemiss
About 24% 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.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Bemiss
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bemiss workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,686 commuters (the 9% 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 kinds of work in Bemiss
192 jobs are based in Bemiss.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bemiss, 2013 → 2023: 117 → 192. 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 Bemiss’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Bemiss, the car does most of the work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,065 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). 0.7% of Bemiss households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bemiss’ commuters take a bus or train.
1,860th of 2,886: where Bemiss ranks among U.S. towns of 6,400 to 12,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Tyrone GA | 8,091 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 427 | Temple GA | 6,564 | $91K | 2.6% | 1.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 593 | Druid Hills GA | 8,169 | $130K | 9.3% | 3.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,858 | Gresham Park GA | 6,935 | $71K | 19.5% | 5.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,859 | Kendallville IN | 10,371 | $59K | 12.4% | 3.3% | 25% | C+ |
| 1,860 | Bemiss GA | 9,201 | $93K | 10.7% | 6.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,861 | Templeton MA | 8,553 | $101K | 10.6% | 6.6% | 8% | C+ |
| 1,862 | Bath Township OH | 9,292 | $63K | 12.2% | 3.4% | 14% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,886 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Bemiss, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Bemiss and its neighbors: 50% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Valdosta. Darker towns draw more of Bemiss’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 Bemiss: questions
What is the median household income in Bemiss?
$92,842 (±$9,441) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bemiss?
10.7%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bemiss?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bemiss work?
1% work in town.
Is Bemiss walkable?
Bemiss is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bemiss 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 Bemiss, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bemiss
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.