Photo: Jud McCranie · CC BY-SA 4.0At 9.9%, unemployment in Glennville is higher than in 94% of U.S. towns
For 2% of workers, the job is at home, next to 16% for Georgia as a whole. The two grades for Glennville are D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Glennville and work: the main findings
Glennville trades workers with the towns around it
Glennville has about as many jobs (1,609) as working residents (1,342), but they are mostly different people: 1,102 residents leave for work each day while 1,369 people come in. Only 15% of the jobs in Glennville are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Few Glennville workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 16% across Georgia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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.
Inside Glennville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Glennville is better than 6% of U.S. towns, #235 of 263 in Georgia. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Glennville’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Glennville could be anywhere from D− to C.
A workday in Glennville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,102 residents head out to work, 240 work right here, and 1,369 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.20 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The daily trip from Glennville: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glennville workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,641 commuters (the 2% 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.
6% of working residents work in Savannah
Where Glennville clocks in
6% 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.
Inside Glennville’s 1,609 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glennville, 2014 → 2024: 1,539 → 1,609. 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 Glennville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Glennville, by distance
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Glennville gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Glennville is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns, #73 of 263 in Georgia. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 6.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,672 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). 9.4% of Glennville households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Glennville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Glennville compares with U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 74 | Grayson GA | 5,569 | $131K | 3.5% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 158 | Senoia GA | 6,276 | $125K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,601 | Calipatria CA | 6,012 | $53K | 25.5% | 7.3% | 5% | D |
| 3,602 | Dawson GA | 4,131 | $29K | 53.8% | 6.0% | 20% | D |
| 3,603 | Glennville GA | 5,023 | $53K | 19.1% | 9.9% | 18% | D |
| 3,604 | Sidney NY | 3,588 | $50K | 21.0% | 9.6% | 23% | D |
| 3,605 | Walhalla SC | 4,320 | $36K | 45.9% | 6.5% | 8% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,758 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Glennville, 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 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 Glennville: questions
What is the median household income in Glennville?
$52,844 (±$15,318) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glennville?
19.1%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glennville?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glennville work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Savannah (6%, 44 mi), Reidsville (6%, 15 mi), Statesboro (4%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Glennville walkable?
Glennville is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glennville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glennville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glennville
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.