New Echota · Photo: Cculber007 at en.wikipedia · Public domainThere are 2.5 jobs in Calhoun for every working resident, and 15,704 people commute in
There are 17,911 jobs in Calhoun, against 7,042 working residents. The two grades for Calhoun are B− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, where Georgia as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Calhoun
Calhoun is where the jobs are
Calhoun has 17,911 jobs, 2.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 31,000 people are in town, 54% more than the 20,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Calhoun draws workers from far and wide
The 17,911 jobs in Calhoun are filled from a wide area. Calhoun’s own residents hold 12% and the ten next-biggest home towns 12%; the other 76% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Calhoun are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Georgia worker. Time on the road ↓
Calhoun makes and builds things
40% of the jobs based in Calhoun are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Calhoun residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
Calhoun has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Calhoun went from 12,712 in 2013 to 17,911 in 2023, +41%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Calhoun gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Calhoun is better than 48% of U.S. towns, #106 of 263 in Georgia. Unemployment holds Calhoun’s grade up (2.3%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($58,750, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Calhoun could be anywhere from C to B+.
Calhoun by day and by night
On a workday 4,835 residents head out to work and 2,207 work right here.
About 31,000 people are in Calhoun on a workday afternoon, 54% more than live here.
2.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
The towns that send workers to Calhoun
Where Calhoun 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.
The trip to work from Calhoun: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Calhoun workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,630 commuters (the 6% 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.
In Calhoun, 40% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Calhoun, 2013 → 2023: 12,712 → 17,911. 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 Calhoun’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Calhoun, by distance
About 17% 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.
Few in Calhoun walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Calhoun is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns, #200 of 263 in Georgia. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% of 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 8,126 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). 4.6% of Calhoun households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Calhoun’s commuters take a bus or train.
Calhoun is 1,239th of 1,860 U.S. towns of 14,000 to 27,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ada Township MI | 14,769 | $168K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 153 | Holly Springs GA | 20,261 | $114K | 3.9% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 248 | Vinings GA | 14,390 | $95K | 6.2% | 2.2% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 353 | Decatur GA | 25,276 | $139K | 6.2% | 4.3% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,237 | Sunny Isles Beach FL | 22,395 | $62K | 14.3% | 4.6% | 9% | B− |
| 1,238 | Chestnuthill Township PA | 16,555 | $90K | 6.9% | 6.8% | 11% | B− |
| 1,239 | Calhoun GA | 20,196 | $59K | 14.1% | 2.3% | 31% | B− |
| 1,240 | Center Township IN | 17,577 | $60K | 12.2% | 2.7% | 31% | B− |
| 1,241 | Hermitage PA | 16,308 | $70K | 10.9% | 4.9% | 26% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,860 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Calhoun, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Around Calhoun: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Calhoun’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 Calhoun: questions
What is the median household income in Calhoun?
$58,750 (±$16,159) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Calhoun?
14.1%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Calhoun?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Calhoun work?
31% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dalton (10%, 19 mi), Rome (3%, 22 mi), Cartersville (2%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Calhoun walkable?
Calhoun is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Calhoun without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Calhoun, from the people who make the trip.
More of Calhoun
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.