Photo: Dacula1Resident · CC BY-SA 4.0Dacula’s household incomes are higher than in 77% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Dacula A−; getting around on foot earns it B. 6.6% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 13.4% for Georgia as a whole. Only 2% work in Dacula; the top destination outside it is Atlanta (9%, 34 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Dacula at work: what stands out
Dacula workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 38 minutes each way, against 28 across Georgia. Over a year that’s about 291 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Dacula has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Dacula went from 1,374 in 2013 to 2,181 in 2023, +59%. The jobs ↓
Dacula’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Dacula is Atlanta, 34 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (251) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Dacula earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Dacula’s grade up (ahead of 83% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (4.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dacula could be anywhere from B− to A+.
The daily trip from Dacula: about 38 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dacula workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,701 commuters (the 20% 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 kinds of work in Dacula
2,181 jobs are based in Dacula.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dacula, 2013 → 2023: 1,374 → 2,181. 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 Dacula’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Dacula works
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.
The daily flow of workers through Dacula
On a workday 2,873 residents head out to work, 55 work right here, and 2,126 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.
0.74 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.
Where Dacula’s working residents head each day
Where Dacula clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
Dacula is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dacula is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns, #119 of 263 in Georgia. Both inputs place Dacula near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,379 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 44% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.9% of Dacula households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Dacula’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Dacula ranks: 891st of 2,806 U.S. towns of 6,600 to 12,700
| # | 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 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Tyrone GA | 8,091 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 574 | Druid Hills GA | 8,169 | $130K | 9.3% | 3.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 578 | Whitemarsh Island GA | 6,886 | $102K | 3.9% | 3.3% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 889 | Coeymans NY | 7,319 | $95K | 4.8% | 3.6% | 9% | A− |
| 890 | Prairie Ridge WA | 12,074 | $114K | 3.7% | 5.8% | <1% | A− |
| 891 | Dacula GA | 9,373 | $101K | 6.6% | 4.8% | 2% | A− |
| 892 | Oak Brook IL | 8,108 | $176K | 6.6% | 10.0% | 7% | A− |
| 893 | St. Joseph MI | 7,893 | $84K | 7.3% | 2.0% | 16% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,806 | 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 Dacula, 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 Dacula: questions
What is the median household income in Dacula?
$100,821 (±$25,861) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dacula?
6.6%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dacula?
38 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dacula work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Atlanta (9%, 34 mi), Lawrenceville (8%, 6 mi), Sandy Springs (3%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dacula walkable?
Dacula is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dacula without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dacula, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dacula
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.