A.D. Strickland Store · Photo: JDR4ever · CC BY-SA 4.0Unemployment in Chatsworth (1.0%) is lower than in 94% of U.S. towns
7% of workers work from home, where Georgia as a whole has 16%. For jobs and income Chatsworth is better than 56% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (C+). About one in ten work in Chatsworth; the top destination outside it is Dalton (24%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Chatsworth, in a few figures
Why Chatsworth gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Unemployment holds Chatsworth’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (15.7%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Chatsworth could be anywhere from C to A−.
Who works in Chatsworth, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,897 residents head out to work, 225 work right here, and 2,983 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,100 people are in Chatsworth on a workday afternoon, 22% more than live here.
1.5 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.
Where Chatsworth’s workforce comes from
Where Chatsworth clocks in
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.
What the 3,208 jobs in Chatsworth are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chatsworth, 2013 → 2023: 4,182 → 3,208. 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 Chatsworth’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Chatsworth
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chatsworth workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,185 commuters (the 7% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Chatsworth
About 18% 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.
Driving is how Chatsworth gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.1% across Georgia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,349 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). 6.8% of Chatsworth households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Chatsworth’s commuters take a bus or train.
Chatsworth next to U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,800: 1,792nd of 3,758 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 158 | Senoia GA | 6,276 | $125K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,790 | Richland Township IN | 5,232 | $64K | 3.0% | 5.3% | 1% | B |
| 1,791 | Monticello LA | 3,999 | $70K | 11.6% | 4.5% | <1% | B |
| 1,792 | Chatsworth GA | 5,029 | $69K | 15.7% | 1.0% | 11% | B |
| 1,793 | Upper Pittsgrove Township NJ | 3,545 | $86K | 8.0% | 8.0% | 9% | B |
| 1,794 | Randolph VT | 4,958 | $77K | 7.7% | 2.3% | 36% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,758 | 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 Chatsworth, 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 Chatsworth: questions
What is the median household income in Chatsworth?
$69,058 (±$18,979) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chatsworth?
15.7%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chatsworth?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chatsworth work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dalton (24%, 11 mi), Calhoun (6%, 21 mi), Chattanooga (3%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Chatsworth walkable?
Chatsworth is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Chatsworth without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chatsworth, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chatsworth
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.