Georgia Welcome Center · Photo: Jud McCranie · CC BY-SA 4.0Hiltonia has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hiltonia has 12 jobs; 106 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Hiltonia itself; outside it, Sylvania draws the most (10%, 10 miles). The trip to work takes 19 minutes on average; Georgia averages 28, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Hiltonia, and who commutes in
On a workday 106 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 230 people are in Hiltonia on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Where people from Hiltonia work
Where Hiltonia clocks in
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.
Goods jobs make up 33% of work in Hiltonia
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hiltonia, 2014 → 2024: 22 → 12. 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 Hiltonia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Hiltonia, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hiltonia workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 92 commuters (the 15% 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.
How many miles Hiltonia commutes
About 39% 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.
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 Hiltonia: questions
What is the median household income in Hiltonia?
$38,929 (±$3,453) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hiltonia?
31.7%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hiltonia?
19 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hiltonia work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sylvania (10%, 10 mi), Augusta (8%, 41 mi), Millen (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Hiltonia without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 26% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hiltonia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hiltonia
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.