Pleasant Valley Historic District · Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 4.0Eton at work: jobs, income and the commute
Only 2% work in Eton itself; outside it, Dalton draws the most (24%, 12 miles). The average commute, 28 minutes each way, matches the Georgia norm. There are 523 jobs in Eton, and 376 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Eton
Goods, not services: 63% of the jobs in Eton
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eton, 2013 → 2023: 142 → 523. 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 Eton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Eton on a workday afternoon
On a workday 370 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 517 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Eton on a workday afternoon, 17% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.39 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.
Out of Eton to work: where people go
Where Eton clocks in
Lines 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.
About 28 minutes each way, about the GA average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eton workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 323 commuters (the 11% 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.
Miles to work from Eton
About 20% 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.
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 Eton: questions
What is the median household income in Eton?
$79,250 (±$14,800) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eton?
18.1%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eton?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eton work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dalton (24%, 12 mi), Chatsworth (8%, 4 mi), Calhoun (4%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Eton without a car?
0% 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 Eton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eton
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.