Noble Hill School · Photo: Thomson200 · CC0Kingston has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
59 jobs are based in Kingston for 449 working residents. Kingston grades D for jobs and income and C for walkability. Measured by household income, Kingston is behind 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Kingston apart
Kingston is a place people come home to
There are 59 jobs based in Kingston, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Kingston has about 790 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Kingston and Cartersville trade workers both ways
Cartersville is the top workplace for Kingston residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Kingston come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Kingston workers work from home
Only 3% 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 449 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Kingston’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Kingston is better than 10% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Kingston’s grade.
Unemployment (10.0%) is left out: Kingston’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, Kingston could be anywhere from D− to C+.
In and out of Kingston on a workday
On a workday 447 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 57 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Kingston on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 2023, primary jobs.
16% of working residents work in Cartersville
Where Kingston 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.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Kingston
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kingston workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 424 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.
What Kingston’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kingston, 2013 → 2023: 106 → 59. 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 Kingston’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Kingston commutes less than 26 miles
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.
In Kingston, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kingston is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 438 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). 9.2% of Kingston households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kingston’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,530th of 4,312: where Kingston ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 130 | Winterville GA | 1,203 | $111K | 3.2% | 0.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 256 | Cataula GA | 1,522 | $124K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 258 | Clermont GA | 1,165 | $136K | 4.7% | 3.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,528 | Rumley Township OH | 1,244 | $54K | 15.0% | 3.7% | 2% | D |
| 3,529 | Oxford Township OH | 1,533 | $53K | 15.8% | 17.3% | 3% | D |
| 3,530 | Kingston GA | 1,176 | $53K | 17.2% | 10.0% | <1% | D |
| 3,531 | Moyie Springs ID | 1,317 | $62K | 14.7% | 7.0% | 4% | D |
| 3,532 | Basile LA | 1,192 | $52K | 17.4% | 17.7% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Kingston, 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 Kingston: questions
What is the median household income in Kingston?
$52,682 (±$15,995) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kingston?
17.2%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kingston?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kingston work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cartersville (16%, 9 mi), Atlanta (6%, 44 mi), Rome (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kingston walkable?
Kingston is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kingston 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 Kingston, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kingston
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.