Photo: Mxdmana · CC BY-SA 4.0There are 1.7 jobs in Carnesville for every working resident, and 539 people commute in
Home is the office for 9% of workers; Georgia has 16%. 548 jobs are based in Carnesville, and 314 of its residents work somewhere. Only 3% work in Carnesville itself; outside it, Athens draws the most (6%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Carnesville in brief
Carnesville is where the jobs are
Carnesville has 548 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
60% of the jobs in Carnesville are in trade, transport and utilities, against 22% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 314 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The daily commute in and out of Carnesville
On a workday 305 residents head out to work and 9 work right here.
About 1,100 people are in Carnesville on a workday afternoon, 27% more than live here.
1.7 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.
Jobs in Carnesville: what the 548 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carnesville, 2013 → 2023: 439 → 548. 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 Carnesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Carnesville
About 30% 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.
The towns that send workers to Carnesville
Where Carnesville clocks in
5% 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.
Each way, about 30 minutes from Carnesville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Carnesville workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 394 commuters (the 9% 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 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 Carnesville: questions
What is the median household income in Carnesville?
$85,000 (±$39,841) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carnesville?
9.4%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carnesville?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carnesville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Athens (6%, 30 mi), Lavonia (6%, 8 mi), Toccoa (5%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Carnesville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Carnesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carnesville
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.