Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0For about two in five of its working residents, Leesburg is a commute to Albany
The two grades for Leesburg are B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. 4% of workers work from home (Georgia 16%). About one in ten work in Leesburg itself; outside it, Albany draws the most (40%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Leesburg, in a few figures
Leesburg trades workers with the towns around it
Leesburg has about as many jobs (1,431) as working residents (1,321), but they are mostly different people: 1,215 residents leave for work each day while 1,325 people come in. Only 7% of the jobs in Leesburg are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
40% of Leesburg works in Albany
534 working residents, 40%, have their main job in Albany, 11 miles away. That’s 5 times as many as work in Leesburg itself. The commute map ↓
Nearly all the work in Leesburg is services
90% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 4% are in factories, building or farms. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Leesburg
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Leesburg is better than 50% of U.S. towns, #100 of 263 in Georgia. Unemployment holds Leesburg’s grade up (2.1%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.3%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Leesburg could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Leesburg on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,215 residents head out to work, 106 work right here, and 1,325 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.08 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.
Where the trip to work from Leesburg ends
Where Leesburg clocks in
40% of workers
3% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Leesburg
1,431 jobs are based in Leesburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Leesburg, 2013 → 2023: 1,496 → 1,431. 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 Leesburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Leesburg: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Leesburg workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,757 commuters (the 5% 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 far Leesburg’s workers travel
About 23% 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.
Most trips from Leesburg start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Leesburg is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns, #242 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 1,840 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). 11.4% of Leesburg households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Leesburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900, Leesburg ranks 2,285th of 4,474 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | 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% | 4% | 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 2,283 | Van Buren Township OH | 2,796 | $73K | 12.2% | 2.3% | 16% | B− |
| 2,284 | Charleston AR | 2,760 | $57K | 9.9% | 1.6% | 19% | B− |
| 2,285 | Leesburg GA | 3,597 | $79K | 17.3% | 2.1% | 8% | B− |
| 2,286 | Sullivan Township MI | 2,725 | $65K | 8.0% | 4.6% | 1% | B− |
| 2,287 | Penn Township PA | 4,098 | $61K | 12.0% | 2.0% | 10% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Leesburg, 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 Leesburg: questions
What is the median household income in Leesburg?
$79,460 (±$14,879) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Leesburg?
17.3%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Leesburg?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Leesburg work?
8% work in town.
Is Leesburg walkable?
Leesburg is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Leesburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Leesburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Leesburg
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.