Deenwood has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Deenwood grades C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Employers in Deenwood report 361 jobs for 819 working residents. 0% of workers work from home; Georgia has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Deenwood stands out on work
Deenwood and Waycross trade workers both ways
Waycross is the top workplace for Deenwood residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Deenwood come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
64% of the jobs in Deenwood are in trade, transport and utilities, against 25% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
37% 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 819 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Deenwood’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Deenwood is better than 26% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Deenwood’s grade up (11.0%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($57,045, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (13.9%) is left out: Deenwood’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Deenwood could be anywhere from D to B+.
33% of working residents work in Waycross
Where Deenwood clocks in
33% of workers
3% of workers
2% 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.
What Deenwood’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deenwood, 2014 → 2024: 325 → 361. 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 Deenwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Deenwood
About 37% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In and out of Deenwood on a workday
On a workday 804 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 346 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Deenwood on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
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 21 minutes in Deenwood
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deenwood workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 709 commuters (the 0% 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.
In Deenwood, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Deenwood is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Deenwood 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 709 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). 12.9% of Deenwood households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Deenwood’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Deenwood ranks: 3,452nd of 4,995 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Berkeley Lake GA | 2,034 | $166K | 1.6% | 1.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 118 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 202 | Isle of Hope GA | 2,053 | $105K | 1.4% | 1.3% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,450 | Stanley VA | 1,704 | $54K | 14.0% | 2.9% | 6% | C |
| 3,451 | Spice Valley Township IN | 2,217 | $82K | 15.6% | 3.6% | 1% | C |
| 3,452 | Deenwood GA | 2,360 | $57K | 11.0% | 13.9% | 2% | C |
| 3,453 | Lamoine ME | 1,811 | $89K | 8.9% | 8.7% | 3% | C |
| 3,454 | Beaverton Township MI | 1,880 | $68K | 10.4% | 5.5% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Deenwood, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
33% of Deenwood works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Waycross. Darker towns draw more of Deenwood’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 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 Deenwood: questions
What is the median household income in Deenwood?
$57,045 (±$23,173) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Deenwood?
11.0%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deenwood?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Deenwood work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waycross (33%, 2 mi), Blackshear (3%, 7 mi), Valdosta (2%, 61 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Deenwood walkable?
Deenwood is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Deenwood without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Deenwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deenwood
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.