Photo: David Wilson · CC BY 2.0Ellaville’s household incomes are lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
About one in five work in Ellaville; the top destination outside it is Americus (12%, 12 miles). Below the poverty line: 16.9% of residents, next to 13.4% across Georgia. The two grades for Ellaville are 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
Ellaville at work: what stands out
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Ellaville
On income, poverty and job access, Ellaville is better than 5% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Ellaville’s grade.
Unemployment (8.0%) is left out: Ellaville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ellaville could be anywhere from D− to C.
Goods, not services: 43% of the jobs in Ellaville
932 jobs are based in Ellaville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ellaville, 2013 → 2023: 720 → 932. 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 Ellaville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Ellaville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 502 residents head out to work, 133 work right here, and 799 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Ellaville on a workday afternoon, 19% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.47 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.
Where Ellaville’s working residents head each day
Where Ellaville clocks in
12% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
From Ellaville, about 29 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ellaville workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 498 commuters (the 10% 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 distance from Ellaville to work
About 26% 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.
Driving is how Ellaville gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ellaville is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.7% 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 552 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). 13.4% of Ellaville households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ellaville’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, and where Ellaville sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Berkeley Lake GA | 2,034 | $166K | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 115 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 193 | Isle of Hope GA | 2,053 | $105K | 1.4% | 1.3% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,215 | Milam TX | 1,258 | $51K | 14.9% | 10.9% | 5% | D |
| 5,216 | Fanning Springs FL | 1,349 | $54K | 18.6% | 7.3% | 3% | D |
| 5,217 | Ellaville GA | 1,529 | $47K | 16.9% | 8.0% | 21% | D |
| 5,218 | Clayton GA | 2,089 | $57K | 20.8% | 1.2% | 18% | D |
| 5,219 | New Llano LA | 2,015 | $52K | 20.8% | 15.5% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Ellaville, 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 Ellaville: questions
What is the median household income in Ellaville?
$46,964 (±$24,793) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ellaville?
16.9%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ellaville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ellaville work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Americus (12%, 12 mi), Albany (5%, 46 mi), Columbus (4%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ellaville walkable?
Ellaville is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ellaville without a car?
0% 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 Ellaville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ellaville
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.