Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Cuthbert ranks among the lowest-earning U.S. towns by household income
Measured by household income, Cuthbert is among the lowest-earning towns in the country. 37.3% of residents are in poverty, next to 13.4% for Georgia as a whole. Cuthbert grades D− for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Cuthbert: the figures worth knowing
Fewer than half of Cuthbert workers earn over $40,000 a year
36% of Cuthbert’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 19% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Few Cuthbert workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Georgia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% 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 ↓
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.
How Cuthbert earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cuthbert is near the bottom of U.S. towns, #263 of 263 in Georgia. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Cuthbert’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cuthbert could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The kinds of work in Cuthbert
740 jobs are based in Cuthbert.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cuthbert, 2013 → 2023: 876 → 740. 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 Cuthbert’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Cuthbert takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cuthbert workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,005 commuters (the 3% 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 Cuthbert
About 33% 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.
A workday in Cuthbert: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 801 residents head out to work, 228 work right here, and 512 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,700 people are in Cuthbert on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.72 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.
6% of working residents work in Vienna
Where Cuthbert clocks in
5% 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.
Most trips from Cuthbert start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cuthbert is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns, #115 of 263 in Georgia. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,033 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). 36.8% of Cuthbert households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cuthbert’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,100, and where Cuthbert sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 259 | Ball Ground GA | 3,470 | $118K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 336 | Chattahoochee Hills GA | 3,524 | $112K | 1.1% | 3.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,755 | Goldendale WA | 3,528 | $40K | 29.7% | 14.0% | 31% | D− |
| 4,756 | Mills Township MI | 4,054 | $42K | 30.5% | 12.1% | 4% | D− |
| 4,757 | Cuthbert GA | 3,026 | $22K | 37.3% | 10.6% | 22% | D− |
| 4,758 | Plymouth NC | 3,170 | $35K | 29.9% | 26.4% | 20% | D− |
| 4,759 | Presidio TX | 2,909 | $41K | 38.9% | 10.2% | 16% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,771 | 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 Cuthbert, 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 Cuthbert: questions
What is the median household income in Cuthbert?
$22,447 (±$5,824) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cuthbert?
37.3%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cuthbert?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cuthbert work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vienna (6%, 63 mi), Bakerhill (5%, 30 mi), Albany (5%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cuthbert walkable?
Cuthbert is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cuthbert without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 37% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cuthbert, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cuthbert
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.