Old Seminary Building · Photo: Jcherepy · CC BY-SA 3.0Lawrenceville has 3.4 jobs for every working resident: 40,780 people commute in to work
Lawrenceville has 41,900 jobs, against 12,474 working residents. For jobs and income Lawrenceville is better than 44% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (A−). Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 22.2 in Atlanta.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Lawrenceville: the figures worth knowing
Lawrenceville has far more jobs than workers
Lawrenceville has 41,900 jobs, 3.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 62,000 people are in town, 90% more than the 33,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Lawrenceville draws workers from far and wide
The 41,900 jobs in Lawrenceville are filled from a wide area. The ten biggest home towns of its workers supply 11%; the other 86% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Lawrenceville has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Lawrenceville went from 25,331 in 2014 to 41,900 in 2024, +65%. The jobs ↓
Lawrenceville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Lawrenceville is Atlanta, 28 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (1,100) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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.
What’s behind Lawrenceville’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Lawrenceville’s grade up (ahead of 90% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lawrenceville could be anywhere from C to B.
Who commutes out of Lawrenceville, and who commutes in
On a workday 11,354 residents head out to work and 1,120 work right here.
About 62,000 people are in Lawrenceville on a workday afternoon, 90% more 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 Lawrenceville’s workforce comes from
Where Lawrenceville clocks in
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.
67% of the jobs in Lawrenceville pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lawrenceville, 2014 → 2024: 25,331 → 41,900. 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 Lawrenceville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Lawrenceville commutes
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.
From Lawrenceville, about 32 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lawrenceville workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 13,282 commuters (the 11% 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.
Lawrenceville is easy on foot, hard by bus
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.7% of 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 14,957 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 55% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 10% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 54% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 13.0% of Lawrenceville households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Lawrenceville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 1,283 U.S. towns of 23,000 to 44,000, Lawrenceville comes 950th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Milton GA | 41,266 | $171K | 4.3% | 2.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 247 | Decatur GA | 25,276 | $139K | 6.2% | 4.3% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 270 | Woodstock GA | 39,895 | $103K | 6.6% | 2.7% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 948 | Suitland MD | 23,793 | $72K | 13.5% | 8.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 949 | Montclair CA | 37,563 | $78K | 17.7% | 6.8% | 4% | C+ |
| 950 | Lawrenceville GA | 32,822 | $62K | 15.4% | 5.1% | 9% | C+ |
| 951 | Long Branch NJ | 33,321 | $80K | 15.5% | 7.0% | 15% | C+ |
| 952 | Falmouth MA | 33,361 | $93K | 9.6% | 6.3% | 38% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,283 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 25% | 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 Lawrenceville, 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 Lawrenceville: questions
What is the median household income in Lawrenceville?
$61,561 (±$6,072) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lawrenceville?
15.4%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lawrenceville?
32 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lawrenceville work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Atlanta (9%, 28 mi), Sandy Springs (4%, 22 mi), Alpharetta (3%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lawrenceville walkable?
Lawrenceville is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 9.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lawrenceville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. 10% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lawrenceville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lawrenceville
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.