Bryan Neck Presbyterian Church · Photo: Bubba73 (Jud McCranie) · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Buckhead are higher than in 94% of U.S. towns
Only 2% work in Buckhead; the top destination outside it is Savannah (26%, 11 miles). 0.6% of residents live below the poverty line; Georgia has 13.4%. For jobs and income Buckhead is better than 65% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Buckhead
Buckhead is a place people come home to
There are 237 jobs based in Buckhead, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Buckhead has about 3,300 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Buckhead and Savannah trade workers both ways
Savannah is the top workplace for Buckhead residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Buckhead come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Buckhead workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 28 across Georgia. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical 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.
The figures behind Buckhead’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Buckhead’s grade up; unemployment pulls it down (7.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Buckhead could be anywhere from B to A.
How many people are in Buckhead by day
On a workday 1,573 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 212 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,300 people are in Buckhead on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
0.15 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.
Out of Buckhead to work: where people go
Where Buckhead clocks in
Lines 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.
Buckhead’s commute takes about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Buckhead workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,308 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.
What Buckhead’s employers do
237 jobs are based in Buckhead.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Buckhead, 2013 → 2023: 36 → 237. 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 Buckhead’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Buckhead
About 21% 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.
For most of Buckhead, work means a drive
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.1% across Georgia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,575 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). 0.0% of Buckhead households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Buckhead’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,396th of 3,798: where Buckhead ranks among U.S. towns of 3,300 to 6,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Grayson GA | 5,569 | $131K | 3.5% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 147 | Senoia GA | 6,276 | $125K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,394 | Valley Center Township KS | 5,036 | $61K | 6.1% | 3.2% | 8% | B |
| 1,395 | Bear Valley Springs CA | 5,912 | $120K | 4.6% | 3.4% | 7% | B |
| 1,396 | Buckhead GA | 4,702 | $145K | 0.6% | 7.5% | 2% | B |
| 1,397 | Gentry AR | 4,899 | $70K | 9.1% | 1.6% | 18% | B |
| 1,398 | Spring City PA | 3,878 | $76K | 12.0% | 3.6% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,798 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Buckhead, 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 Buckhead: questions
What is the median household income in Buckhead?
$144,864 (±$26,300) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Buckhead?
0.6%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Buckhead?
33 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Buckhead work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Savannah (26%, 11 mi), Richmond Hill (10%, 4 mi), Pooler (6%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Buckhead walkable?
Buckhead is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Buckhead without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Buckhead, from the people who make the trip.
More of Buckhead
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.