Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0Camilla’s household incomes are lower than in 97% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Camilla D−; getting around on foot earns it B. The poverty rate is 38.0%, next to 13.4% for Georgia as a whole. Home is the office for 2% of workers; Georgia has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Camilla
Camilla is where the jobs are
Camilla has 4,201 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 7,300 people are in town, 46% more than the 5,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Camilla makes and builds things
53% of the jobs based in Camilla are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Camilla residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 31%. The jobs ↓
Fewer than half of Camilla workers earn over $40,000 a year
36% of Camilla’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 18% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Camilla has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Camilla went from 2,538 in 2013 to 4,201 in 2023, +66%. The jobs ↓
Few Camilla workers work from home
Only 2% 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Camilla
Job access by car holds Camilla’s grade up (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Camilla could be anywhere from D− to D.
Camilla by day and by night
On a workday 1,265 residents head out to work, 639 work right here, and 3,562 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,300 people are in Camilla on a workday afternoon, 46% more than live here.
2.2 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.
53% of the jobs in Camilla make or build things
4,201 jobs are based in Camilla.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Camilla, 2013 → 2023: 2,538 → 4,201. 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 Camilla’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Camilla: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Camilla workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,681 commuters (the 2% 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.
Where the people who work in Camilla live
Where Camilla clocks in
7% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
Where in the region Camilla works
About 25% 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.
Camilla is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Camilla is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns, #130 of 263 in Georgia. Both inputs place Camilla 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 1,715 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). 35.8% of Camilla households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Camilla’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Camilla sits among U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 74 | Grayson GA | 5,569 | $131K | 3.5% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 157 | Senoia GA | 6,276 | $125K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,635 | Mullins SC | 3,838 | $35K | 38.3% | 10.1% | 11% | D− |
| 3,636 | Cheraw SC | 4,921 | $27K | 37.0% | 11.8% | 30% | D− |
| 3,637 | Camilla GA | 4,988 | $38K | 38.0% | 10.9% | 34% | D− |
| 3,638 | Baxley GA | 5,058 | $30K | 32.2% | 9.0% | 29% | D− |
| 3,639 | Crockett TX | 6,346 | $39K | 22.1% | 8.3% | 26% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,692 | 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 Camilla, 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 Camilla: questions
What is the median household income in Camilla?
$38,137 (±$19,498) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Camilla?
38.0%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Camilla?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Camilla work?
34% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albany (7%, 24 mi), Thomasville (6%, 30 mi), Moultrie (3%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Camilla walkable?
Camilla is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Camilla without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 36% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Camilla, from the people who make the trip.
More of Camilla
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.