Boyd and Sallie Gilleland House · Photo: Gwringle · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer people are out of work in Dawsonville (2.5%) than in 77% of U.S. towns
Commuters spend 31 minutes getting to work on average; Georgia averages 28, the U.S. 26. Dawsonville grades B+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Only 5% work in Dawsonville itself; outside it, Cumming draws the most (6%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Dawsonville: the figures worth knowing
No single place dominates Dawsonville’s commute
The biggest draw, Cumming, gets only 6% of working residents, and 63% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Dawsonville residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Dawsonville has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Dawsonville went from 1,057 in 2014 to 1,704 in 2024, +61%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Dawsonville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dawsonville is better than 69% of U.S. towns, #52 of 263 in Georgia. Unemployment holds Dawsonville’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dawsonville could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Where people from Dawsonville work
Where Dawsonville clocks in
6% 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 1,704 jobs based in Dawsonville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dawsonville, 2014 → 2024: 1,057 → 1,704. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Dawsonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Dawsonville by day and by night
On a workday 2,007 residents head out to work, 107 work right here, and 1,597 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 (0.81 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
A commute of about 31 minutes in Dawsonville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dawsonville workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,677 commuters (the 19% 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.
Half of Dawsonville commutes less than 25 miles
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Dawsonville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dawsonville is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns, #66 of 263 in Georgia. Both inputs place Dawsonville 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 2,067 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). 4.5% of Dawsonville households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Dawsonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Dawsonville places 1,271st of 3,840 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 3,400 to 6,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 77 | Grayson GA | 5,569 | $131K | 3.5% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 161 | Senoia GA | 6,276 | $125K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,269 | Shannon Hills AR | 4,829 | $71K | 3.9% | 4.4% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,270 | Glendale CO | 4,475 | $71K | 16.1% | 1.7% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,271 | Dawsonville GA | 4,888 | $91K | 7.4% | 2.5% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,272 | Williams Township MI | 5,032 | $87K | 12.5% | 1.4% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,273 | Somerset Township MI | 4,606 | $89K | 6.7% | 2.5% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,840 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Dawsonville, 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 2024, 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 Dawsonville: questions
What is the median household income in Dawsonville?
$90,929 (±$15,889) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dawsonville?
7.4%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dawsonville?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dawsonville work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cumming (6%, 16 mi), Atlanta (6%, 49 mi), Alpharetta (5%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Dawsonville walkable?
Dawsonville is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dawsonville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dawsonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dawsonville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.