Photo: Catscape · CC BY 2.5Grantville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Jobs and income earn Grantville C+; getting around on foot earns it C−. Grantville has 221 jobs; 1,614 of its residents have a job. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers (Georgia 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Grantville, in brief
Grantville is a place people come home to
There are 221 jobs based in Grantville, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Grantville has about 1,900 people in it, 42% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Grantville and Newnan trade workers both ways
Newnan is the top workplace for Grantville residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Grantville come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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.
The four measures behind Grantville’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Grantville is better than 43% of U.S. towns, #120 of 263 in Georgia. The poverty rate holds Grantville’s grade up (8.2%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.6%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Grantville could be anywhere from C− to A−.
A workday in Grantville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,600 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 207 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Grantville on a workday afternoon, 42% 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 2024, primary jobs.
15% of working residents work in Newnan
Where Grantville clocks in
15% of workers
9% 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.
What Grantville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grantville, 2014 → 2024: 253 → 221. 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 Grantville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way, about the GA average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grantville workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,559 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Grantville
About 21% 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.
Getting around Grantville: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Grantville is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns, #228 of 263 in Georgia. Both inputs place Grantville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,635 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). 3.4% of Grantville households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grantville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Grantville is 2,545th of 4,453 U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 96 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 262 | Ball Ground GA | 3,470 | $118K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 339 | Chattahoochee Hills GA | 3,524 | $112K | 1.1% | 3.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,543 | Windsor ME | 2,758 | $63K | 7.5% | 3.5% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,544 | Midland PA | 2,358 | $60K | 14.0% | 3.5% | 12% | C+ |
| 2,545 | Grantville GA | 3,284 | $69K | 8.2% | 5.6% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,546 | Lowell NC | 3,939 | $53K | 17.4% | 3.7% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,547 | Tamworth NH | 2,895 | $68K | 9.2% | 2.2% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,453 | 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 Grantville, 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 Grantville: questions
What is the median household income in Grantville?
$69,283 (±$9,813) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grantville?
8.2%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grantville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grantville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Newnan (15%, 10 mi), Atlanta (9%, 43 mi), College Park (4%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Grantville walkable?
Grantville is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grantville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grantville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grantville
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.