Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Clermont top those of 93% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 4.7%, where Georgia as a whole has 13.4%. For jobs and income Clermont is better than 87% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (D). Only 2% work in Clermont itself; outside it, Gainesville draws the most (26%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Why Clermont gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income is its strongest input ($135,500, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Clermont’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Clermont could be anywhere from B+ to A.
The daily flow of workers through Clermont
On a workday 631 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 223 people come in from elsewhere.
About 760 people are in Clermont on a workday afternoon, 35% fewer than live here.
0.36 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
The places Clermont commutes to
Where Clermont clocks in
26% of workers
3% of workers
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.
Factories, building and farms: 45% of the jobs in Clermont
233 jobs are based in Clermont.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clermont, 2013 → 2023: 103 → 233. 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 Clermont’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Clermont: about 27 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clermont workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 650 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.
Clermont’s commute, mile by mile
About 21% 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 Clermont, most people drive to work
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 739 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). 0.9% of Clermont households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Clermont’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Clermont is 258th among 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 130 | Winterville GA | 1,203 | $111K | 3.2% | 0.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 256 | Cataula GA | 1,522 | $124K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| 257 | Belgium WI | 1,450 | $92K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A |
| 258 | Clermont GA | 1,165 | $136K | 4.7% | 3.1% | 2% | A |
| 259 | Califon NJ | 1,034 | $128K | 7.5% | 3.6% | <1% | A |
| 260 | Brooklyn WI | 1,547 | $109K | 5.8% | 3.3% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 600 | Robins AFB GA | 1,193 | $107K | 5.9% | 9.9% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 603 | Bogart GA | 1,326 | $90K | 7.9% | 1.3% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Clermont, 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 Clermont: questions
What is the median household income in Clermont?
$135,500 (±$26,970) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clermont?
4.7%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clermont?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clermont work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gainesville (26%, 14 mi), Atlanta (3%, 62 mi), Cleveland (3%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Clermont walkable?
Clermont is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clermont without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clermont, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clermont
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.