Photo: Cculber007 at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Cedartown has lower household incomes than 98% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 30.7%, where Georgia as a whole has 13.4%. For jobs and income Cedartown is better than 5% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (B+). 1% of workers work from home, next to 16% for Georgia as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Cedartown in brief
Cedartown trades workers with the towns around it
Cedartown has about as many jobs (4,684) as working residents (4,059), but they are mostly different people: 3,304 residents leave for work each day while 3,929 people come in. Only 16% of the jobs in Cedartown are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Few Cedartown workers work from home
Only 1% 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.
The figures behind Cedartown’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Cedartown’s grade up (ahead of 30% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($34,754, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cedartown could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The daily commute in and out of Cedartown
On a workday 3,304 residents head out to work, 755 work right here, and 3,929 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.15 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting from Cedartown: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cedartown workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,964 commuters (the 1% 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.
10% of working residents work in Rome
Where Cedartown 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.
What work there is in Cedartown: 4,684 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cedartown, 2013 → 2023: 4,387 → 4,684. 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 Cedartown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Cedartown goes to work
About 24% 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.
In Cedartown, most people drive to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,002 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). 9.9% of Cedartown households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Cedartown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cedartown and other U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Tyrone GA | 8,091 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 426 | Flowery Branch GA | 13,110 | $104K | 6.1% | 2.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 596 | Druid Hills GA | 8,169 | $130K | 9.3% | 3.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,821 | Sweetwater TX | 10,141 | $45K | 28.1% | 6.9% | 41% | D |
| 2,822 | Seaside OR | 7,092 | $47K | 17.6% | 8.1% | 31% | D |
| 2,823 | Cedartown GA | 10,514 | $35K | 30.7% | 6.8% | 19% | D |
| 2,824 | Blytheville AR | 12,227 | $48K | 24.2% | 9.2% | 37% | D |
| 2,825 | Stockton Township IN | 8,254 | $47K | 16.5% | 9.7% | 23% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Cedartown, 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 Cedartown: questions
What is the median household income in Cedartown?
$34,754 (±$9,511) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cedartown?
30.7%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cedartown?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cedartown work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rome (10%, 17 mi), Rockmart (8%, 12 mi), Cartersville (3%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cedartown walkable?
Cedartown is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cedartown without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cedartown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cedartown
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.