Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0Few U.S. towns have household incomes as low as Broxton’s
Measured by household income, Broxton is among the lowest-earning towns in the country. The poverty rate is 45.3% (Georgia 13.4%). Jobs and income earn Broxton D−; getting around on foot earns it B.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Broxton
43% of Broxton works in Douglas
171 working residents, 43%, have their main job in Douglas, 8.5 miles away. That’s 43 times as many as work in Broxton itself. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Broxton are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical Georgia worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Broxton workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 16% across Georgia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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; with 399 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Broxton’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Broxton is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Broxton’s grade up (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($24,851, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Broxton’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Broxton stays D−.
43% of working residents work in Douglas
Where Broxton clocks in
43% of workers
3% 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.
A commute of about 17 minutes in Broxton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Broxton workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 264 commuters (the 0% 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.
Broxton by day and by night
On a workday 394 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 135 people come in from elsewhere.
About 820 people are in Broxton on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.35 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.
What Broxton’s employers do
140 jobs are based in Broxton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Broxton, 2013 → 2023: 107 → 140. 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 Broxton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Broxton to work
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.
Driving is how Broxton gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Broxton is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 264 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). 19.9% of Broxton households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Broxton’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, and where Broxton sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | Winterville GA | 1,203 | $111K | 3.2% | 0.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 213 | Clermont GA | 1,165 | $136K | 4.7% | 3.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 510 | Robins AFB GA | 1,193 | $107K | 5.9% | 9.9% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,668 | Blackbird Township NE | 1,275 | $45K | 34.9% | 31.9% | 46% | D− |
| 3,669 | Puget Island WA | 1,008 | $49K | 25.0% | 4.4% | 4% | D− |
| 3,670 | Broxton GA | 1,080 | $25K | 45.3% | 0.0% | 1% | D− |
| 3,671 | Willacoochee GA | 1,256 | $33K | 27.7% | 1.1% | 17% | D− |
| 3,672 | Logansport LA | 1,325 | $32K | 36.3% | 14.6% | 5% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Broxton, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
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 Broxton: questions
What is the median household income in Broxton?
$24,851 (±$8,930) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Broxton?
45.3%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Broxton?
17 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Broxton work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Douglas (43%, 8 mi), Tifton (3%, 39 mi), Waycross (2%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Broxton walkable?
Broxton is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Broxton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 20% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Broxton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Broxton
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.