Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Centralhatchee has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Hardly any stay in Centralhatchee for work; outside it, Carrollton is the main destination (19%, 15 miles). Centralhatchee has 30 jobs for 124 working residents. For 8% of workers, the job is at home (Georgia 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Centralhatchee, and who commutes in
On a workday 123 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 29 people come in from elsewhere.
About 280 people are in Centralhatchee on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer 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.
Where people from Centralhatchee work
Where Centralhatchee clocks in
19% of workers
6% of workers
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.
A place that makes things: 53% of Centralhatchee’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Centralhatchee, 2013 → 2023: 53 → 30. 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 Centralhatchee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Centralhatchee takes about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Centralhatchee workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 216 commuters (the 8% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Centralhatchee
About 27% 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.
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 Centralhatchee: questions
What is the median household income in Centralhatchee?
$43,698 (±$16,828) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Centralhatchee?
11.6%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Centralhatchee?
32 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Centralhatchee work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Carrollton (19%, 15 mi), Franklin (6%, 6 mi), LaGrange (5%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Centralhatchee without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Centralhatchee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Centralhatchee
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.