Photo: Myotus · CC BY 4.0Carrollton draws 19,440 commuters a day, with 2.0 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Carrollton report 22,897 jobs, against 11,383 working residents. Jobs and income earn Carrollton C−; getting around on foot earns it A−. Measured by household income, Carrollton is behind 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Carrollton: the figures worth knowing
Carrollton draws workers from far and wide
The 22,897 jobs in Carrollton are filled from a wide area. Carrollton’s own residents hold 15% and the ten next-biggest home towns 13%; the other 72% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Carrollton is where the jobs are
Carrollton has 22,897 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 39,000 people are in town, 41% more than the 28,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
No single place dominates Carrollton’s commute
The biggest draw, Atlanta, gets only 5% of working residents, and 51% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Carrollton residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Carrollton 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 ↓
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.
Inside Carrollton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Carrollton is better than 22% of U.S. towns, #178 of 263 in Georgia. Job access by car holds Carrollton’s grade up (ahead of 60% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (25.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Carrollton could be anywhere from D to C+.
Where Carrollton’s workforce comes from
Where Carrollton clocks in
5% 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.
Carrollton on a workday afternoon
On a workday 7,926 residents head out to work and 3,457 work right here.
About 39,000 people are in Carrollton on a workday afternoon, 41% more than live here.
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 daily trip from Carrollton: 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 Carrollton workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 11,477 commuters (the 12% 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 Carrollton’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carrollton, 2013 → 2023: 21,503 → 22,897. 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 Carrollton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Carrollton
About 19% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Carrollton
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Carrollton is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns, #58 of 263 in Georgia. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 7.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 13,091 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). 6.5% of Carrollton households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Carrollton’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Carrollton compares with U.S. towns of 20,000 to 38,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
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| 99 | Holly Springs GA | 20,261 | $114K | 3.9% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
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| 253 | Decatur GA | 25,276 | $139K | 6.2% | 4.3% | 9% | A |
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| 447 | Sugar Hill GA | 29,280 | $107K | 7.3% | 4.0% | 4% | A− |
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| 1,271 | Lebanon OR | 20,267 | $63K | 17.8% | 5.8% | 19% | C− |
| 1,272 | Hot Springs AR | 37,979 | $48K | 20.5% | 4.8% | 50% | C− |
| 1,273 | Carrollton GA | 27,925 | $54K | 25.4% | 5.2% | 30% | C− |
| 1,274 | Del City OK | 21,138 | $47K | 22.6% | 7.7% | 4% | C− |
| 1,275 | Texarkana TX | 36,195 | $51K | 22.0% | 5.2% | 43% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,409 | Barstow CA | 24,804 | $53K | 23.1% | 11.9% | 17% | 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 Carrollton, 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 Carrollton: questions
What is the median household income in Carrollton?
$54,379 (±$8,938) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carrollton?
25.4%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carrollton?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carrollton work?
30% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Atlanta (5%, 40 mi), Villa Rica (4%, 14 mi), Bremen (2%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Carrollton walkable?
Carrollton is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Carrollton without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Carrollton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carrollton
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.