Photo: Bill Golladay · CC BY-SA 4.0Bremen has lower unemployment (1.7%) than 88% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Bremen; the top destination outside it is Carrollton (14%, 10 miles). Jobs and income earn Bremen A−; getting around on foot earns it B−. Measured by household income, Bremen is ahead of 72% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Bremen: the gist
Bremen’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bremen is better than 78% of U.S. towns, #39 of 263 in Georgia. Unemployment holds Bremen’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bremen could be anywhere from B to A.
Time on the road from Bremen: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bremen workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,420 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.
Who commutes out of Bremen, and who commutes in
On a workday 2,781 residents head out to work, 398 work right here, and 3,517 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.23 per resident).
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 people from Bremen work
Where Bremen clocks in
14% 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.
What Bremen’s employers do
3,915 jobs are based in Bremen.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bremen, 2013 → 2023: 3,366 → 3,915. 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 Bremen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Bremen’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Bremen is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bremen is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns, #154 of 263 in Georgia. Both inputs place Bremen near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,816 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). 2.3% of Bremen households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Bremen’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 5,400 to 10,500, Bremen ranks 871st of 3,091 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Tyrone GA | 8,091 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Grayson GA | 5,569 | $131K | 3.5% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 154 | Senoia GA | 6,276 | $125K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 869 | Crete IL | 8,345 | $97K | 3.9% | 6.0% | 5% | A− |
| 870 | Bridgeport TX | 6,915 | $96K | 2.1% | 3.9% | 18% | A− |
| 871 | Bremen GA | 7,751 | $94K | 5.3% | 1.7% | 13% | A− |
| 872 | Kennett Square PA | 6,893 | $81K | 5.3% | 3.1% | 8% | A− |
| 873 | Hyde Park UT | 5,786 | $113K | 1.9% | 5.0% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,091 | 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 Bremen, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Around Bremen: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bremen workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bremen | – | A− | B− | 35 min | $93,780 |
| Waco | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Waco: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bremen’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 Bremen: questions
What is the median household income in Bremen?
$93,780 (±$9,870) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bremen?
5.3%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bremen?
35 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bremen work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Carrollton (14%, 10 mi), Villa Rica (5%, 14 mi), Tallapoosa (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bremen walkable?
Bremen is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bremen without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bremen, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bremen
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.