Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Homerville earn less than those in 98% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 3% of workers (Georgia 16%). 31.3% of residents live below the poverty line, against 13.4% across Georgia. The two grades for Homerville are D− for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Homerville, in brief
Homerville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Homerville is Valdosta, 34 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (63) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Homerville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Homerville fell from 1,888 in 2013 to 1,145 in 2023, −39%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Fewer than half of Homerville workers earn over $40,000 a year
41% of Homerville’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 21% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 818 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Homerville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Homerville is better than 2% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Homerville’s grade up (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($35,671, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Homerville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Homerville could be anywhere from D− to D.
How far Homerville’s workers travel
About 28% 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.
29% of the jobs in Homerville make or build things
1,145 jobs are based in Homerville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Homerville, 2013 → 2023: 1,888 → 1,145. 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 Homerville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Homerville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 597 residents head out to work, 221 work right here, and 924 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,700 people are in Homerville on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.40 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
8% of working residents work in Valdosta
Where Homerville clocks in
8% of workers
4% 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.
About 24 minutes each way for Homerville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Homerville workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 685 commuters (the 3% 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 in Homerville is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Homerville is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. 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 704 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). 20.3% of Homerville households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Homerville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Homerville and other U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Berkeley Lake GA | 2,034 | $166K | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 127 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 216 | Isle of Hope GA | 2,053 | $105K | 1.4% | 1.3% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,352 | Carrabelle FL | 2,572 | $50K | 21.6% | 8.2% | 12% | D− |
| 5,353 | Chattahoochee FL | 3,011 | $52K | 61.7% | 6.1% | 26% | D− |
| 5,354 | Homerville GA | 2,339 | $36K | 31.3% | 1.1% | 27% | D− |
| 5,355 | Murfreesboro NC | 2,242 | $40K | 39.5% | 6.6% | 15% | D− |
| 5,356 | Mangum OK | 2,683 | $49K | 21.8% | 11.9% | 29% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,552 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Homerville, 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 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 Homerville: questions
What is the median household income in Homerville?
$35,671 (±$7,687) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Homerville?
31.3%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Homerville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Homerville work?
27% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Valdosta (8%, 34 mi), Waycross (4%, 26 mi), Jacksonville (2%, 80 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Homerville walkable?
Homerville is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Homerville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 20% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Homerville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Homerville
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. 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.