Photo: Jadvii · CC BY-SA 3.0Hahira has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
7% of workers have no commute at all; Georgia has 16%. Hahira has 687 jobs, against 1,301 working residents. The two grades for Hahira are B− for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hahira: the figures worth knowing
41% of Hahira works in Valdosta
535 working residents, 41%, have their main job in Valdosta, 11 miles away. That’s 6 times as many as work in Hahira itself. The commute map ↓
Hahira has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Hahira went from 475 in 2014 to 687 in 2024, +45%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Hahira are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Georgia worker. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Income, poverty and work: Hahira’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hahira is better than 46% of U.S. towns, #112 of 263 in Georgia. The poverty rate holds Hahira’s grade up (6.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 33% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hahira could be anywhere from C− to A−.
41% of working residents work in Valdosta
Where Hahira clocks in
41% of workers
2% of workers
2% 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 Hahira’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hahira, 2014 → 2024: 475 → 687. 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 Hahira’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Hahira
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hahira workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,606 commuters (the 7% 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.
Who leaves Hahira for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,212 residents head out to work, 89 work right here, and 598 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,000 people are in Hahira on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
How far Hahira’s workers travel
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.
For most of Hahira, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hahira is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns, #218 of 263 in Georgia. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.1% across Georgia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,722 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). 8.2% of Hahira households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hahira’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,439th of 4,474: where Hahira ranks among U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 285 | Ball Ground GA | 3,470 | $118K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 367 | Chattahoochee Hills GA | 3,524 | $112K | 1.1% | 3.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,437 | Briar Creek Township PA | 3,044 | $77K | 6.0% | 6.3% | 3% | B− |
| 2,438 | Manila AR | 3,773 | $56K | 8.5% | 1.9% | 16% | B− |
| 2,439 | Hahira GA | 3,595 | $71K | 6.6% | 4.8% | 7% | B− |
| 2,440 | Annandale MN | 3,801 | $66K | 8.9% | 3.9% | 17% | B− |
| 2,441 | Ashley PA | 2,627 | $57K | 23.9% | 1.8% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | 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 Hahira, 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 Hahira: questions
What is the median household income in Hahira?
$70,966 (±$11,000) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hahira?
6.6%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hahira?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hahira work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Valdosta (41%, 11 mi), Adel (2%, 10 mi), Nashville (2%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hahira walkable?
Hahira is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hahira without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hahira, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hahira
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.