McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery · Photo: Jud McCranie · CC BY-SA 4.0Girard has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
0% of workers work from home; Georgia has 16%. 17 jobs are based in Girard for 62 working residents. Hardly any work in Girard itself; outside it, Augusta draws the most (23%, 31 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Girard quiets down on a workday
On a workday 62 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Girard on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Where people from Girard work
Where Girard clocks in
11% 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 Girard’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Girard, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 17. 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 Girard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Girard
of Girard workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 32 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.
The commute from Girard, by distance
About 34% 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 Girard: questions
What is the median household income in Girard?
$66,250 (±$40,956) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Girard?
0.0%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Girard work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Augusta (23%, 31 mi), Waynesboro (11%, 18 mi), Sylvania (5%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Girard without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Girard, from the people who make the trip.
More of Girard
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.