Cusseta Industrial High School · Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0At 9.1%, unemployment in Cusseta is higher than in 92% of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are lower than in 72% of U.S. towns. The two grades for Cusseta are C− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Home is the office for 9% of workers; Georgia has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Cusseta stands out on work
Commutes from Cusseta are quick
The average trip to work takes 11 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 130 hours a year less on the road than the typical Georgia worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
53% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Cusseta and Columbus trade workers both ways
Columbus is the top workplace for Cusseta residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Cusseta come from (38% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Cusseta pay better than its residents’ jobs
61% of the jobs based in Cusseta pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 45% of the jobs Cusseta residents hold. 94% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Cusseta. The jobs ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Cusseta: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cusseta is better than 20% of U.S. towns, #185 of 263 in Georgia. Job access by car holds Cusseta’s grade up (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cusseta could be anywhere from D to B−.
Getting to work from Cusseta takes about 11 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cusseta workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,510 commuters (the 9% 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.
How far Cusseta goes to work
About 53% 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.
27% of working residents work in Columbus
Where Cusseta clocks in
27% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Cusseta
2,431 jobs are based in Cusseta.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cusseta, 2013 → 2023: 2,791 → 2,431. 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 Cusseta’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Cusseta
On a workday 1,587 residents head out to work, 156 work right here, and 2,275 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 (1.39 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.
In Cusseta, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cusseta is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns, #74 of 263 in Georgia. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 24.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,034 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). 3.0% of Cusseta households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Cusseta’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cusseta next to U.S. towns of 5,900 to 11,400: 2,570th of 2,981 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Tyrone GA | 8,091 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 155 | Senoia GA | 6,276 | $125K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 420 | Temple GA | 6,564 | $91K | 2.6% | 1.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,568 | Raton NM | 5,952 | $53K | 25.1% | 1.8% | 58% | C− |
| 2,569 | Navasota TX | 9,904 | $51K | 14.2% | 7.2% | 14% | C− |
| 2,570 | Cusseta GA | 8,465 | $61K | 13.9% | 9.1% | 9% | C− |
| 2,571 | Morehead KY | 6,776 | $37K | 38.0% | 5.4% | 32% | C− |
| 2,572 | Cranberry Township PA | 6,241 | $61K | 12.8% | 5.7% | 20% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,981 | 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 Cusseta, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
27% of Cusseta works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Columbus. Darker towns draw more of Cusseta’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Cusseta: questions
What is the median household income in Cusseta?
$61,042 (±$5,340) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cusseta?
13.9%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cusseta?
11 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cusseta work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (27%, 12 mi), Atlanta (3%, 100 mi), Macon-Bibb County (3%, 71 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cusseta walkable?
Cusseta is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 24% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cusseta without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cusseta, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cusseta
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.