Photo: Harrison Keely · CC BY 4.0Blairsville has 11.1 jobs for every working resident: 2,969 people commute in to work
About one in five stay in Blairsville for work; outside it, Athens is the main destination (3%, 72 miles). Employers in Blairsville report 3,029 jobs; 273 of its residents have a job. 8% of workers work from home, next to 16% for Georgia as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Blairsville apart on work
Blairsville fills up on a workday
Blairsville has 3,029 jobs, 11.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,600 people are in town, 4 times the 880 who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Blairsville are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 115 hours a year less on the road than the typical Georgia worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 273 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Blairsville’s population more than triples on a workday
On a workday 213 residents head out to work and 60 work right here.
About 3,600 people are in Blairsville on a workday afternoon, 314% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
From Blairsville, about 13 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blairsville workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 279 commuters (the 8% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Blairsville
About 38% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Where Blairsville’s workforce comes from
Where Blairsville clocks in
2% of workers
2% 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 Blairsville, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blairsville, 2014 → 2024: 2,230 → 3,029. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Blairsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Blairsville: questions
What is the median household income in Blairsville?
$30,357 (±$10,276) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blairsville?
31.2%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blairsville?
13 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blairsville work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Athens (3%, 72 mi), Young Harris (2%, 7 mi), Sandy Springs (2%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Blairsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 24% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blairsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blairsville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.