Photo: Light-jet pilot · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Flovilla works elsewhere
Flovilla has 16 jobs, against 346 working residents. Hardly any stay in Flovilla for work; outside it, Jackson is the main destination (10%, 5 miles). The average commute takes 30 minutes each way (Georgia 28, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Flovilla in brief
Flovilla by day and by night
On a workday 346 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 16 people come in from elsewhere.
About 380 people are in Flovilla on a workday afternoon, 47% 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 2023, primary jobs.
The places Flovilla commutes to
Where Flovilla clocks in
10% of workers
5% of workers
5% 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 Flovilla’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Flovilla, 2013 → 2023: 17 → 16. 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 Flovilla’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Flovilla’s commute takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Flovilla workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 648 commuters (the 5% 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 commute from Flovilla, by distance
About 23% 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 Flovilla: questions
What is the median household income in Flovilla?
$68,214 (±$45,524) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Flovilla?
8.5%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Flovilla?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Flovilla work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson (10%, 5 mi), Atlanta (5%, 46 mi), McDonough (5%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Flovilla without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Flovilla, from the people who make the trip.
More of Flovilla
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.