Cumming Public School-Cumming High School · Photo: Bruce Warmbrod · CC BY-SA 3.0Cumming draws 15,622 commuters a day, with 4.9 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Cumming is better than 72% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (B−). Employers in Cumming report 15,931 jobs for 3,227 working residents. About one in ten work in Cumming; the top destination outside it is Alpharetta (10%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Cumming stands out on work
Cumming fills up on a workday
Cumming has 15,931 jobs, 4.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 25,000 people are in town, more than double the 12,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Cumming draws workers from far and wide
The 15,931 jobs in Cumming are filled from a wide area. The ten biggest home towns of its workers supply 10%; the other 88% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
Why Cumming gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Job access by car holds Cumming’s grade up (ahead of 82% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cumming could be anywhere from B− to A.
How a workday changes Cumming
On a workday 2,918 residents head out to work and 309 work right here.
About 25,000 people are in Cumming on a workday afternoon, 102% 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.
Where Cumming’s workforce comes from
Where Cumming clocks in
9% 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.
The kinds of work in Cumming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cumming, 2013 → 2023: 16,170 → 15,931. 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 Cumming’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Cumming spends getting to work: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cumming workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,483 commuters (the 16% 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.
The commute from Cumming, by distance
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 Cumming, most people drive to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.6% of 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 4,124 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). 7.7% of Cumming households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Cumming’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000, Cumming ranks 943rd of 2,354 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 298 | Vinings GA | 14,390 | $95K | 6.2% | 2.2% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 375 | Flowery Branch GA | 13,110 | $104K | 6.1% | 2.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 671 | Wilmington Island GA | 13,905 | $94K | 4.2% | 3.5% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 941 | Liberty Township IN | 11,151 | $97K | 9.2% | 3.8% | 6% | B+ |
| 942 | Red Hook NY | 11,129 | $112K | 8.2% | 2.9% | 25% | B+ |
| 943 | Cumming GA | 12,494 | $86K | 13.4% | 2.4% | 10% | B+ |
| 944 | Fillmore CA | 16,937 | $93K | 7.0% | 3.4% | 10% | B+ |
| 945 | Elizabethtown PA | 11,961 | $76K | 7.6% | 3.4% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Cumming, 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 Cumming: questions
What is the median household income in Cumming?
$85,868 (±$14,183) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cumming?
13.4%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cumming?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cumming work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alpharetta (10%, 12 mi), Atlanta (9%, 35 mi), Sandy Springs (5%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cumming walkable?
Cumming is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 8.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cumming without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cumming, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cumming
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.