Photo: John Phelan · CC BY 4.0Lindale has lower household incomes than 94% of U.S. towns
8% of workers work from home, against 16% across Georgia. Poverty touches 25.5% of residents; Georgia has 13.4%. The two grades for Lindale are C 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
The commute and the jobs: Lindale in brief
Lindale makes and builds things
83% of the jobs based in Lindale are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Lindale residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Lindale trades workers with the towns around it
Lindale has about as many jobs (2,078) as working residents (1,846), but they are mostly different people: 1,767 residents leave for work each day while 1,999 people come in. Only 4% of the jobs in Lindale are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Lindale and Rome trade workers both ways
Rome is the top workplace for Lindale residents (31%) and also where the most people who work in Lindale come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Lindale pay better than its residents’ jobs
71% of the jobs based in Lindale pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 50% of the jobs Lindale residents hold. 96% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Lindale. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Lindale are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Georgia worker. 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.
Lindale’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lindale is better than 33% of U.S. towns, #146 of 263 in Georgia. Unemployment holds Lindale’s grade up (1.8%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($43,561, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lindale could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Goods, not services: 83% of the jobs in Lindale
2,078 jobs are based in Lindale.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lindale, 2013 → 2023: 1,612 → 2,078. 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 Lindale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Lindale
On a workday 1,767 residents head out to work, 79 work right here, and 1,999 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 (1.13 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.
31% of working residents work in Rome
Where Lindale clocks in
3% 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.
The trip to work from Lindale: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lindale workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,779 commuters (the 8% 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 it is to work from Lindale
About 20% 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.
In Lindale, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lindale is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns, #189 of 263 in Georgia. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,940 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). 1.3% of Lindale households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lindale’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lindale is 2,798th of 4,039 U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,800 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 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Grayson GA | 5,569 | $131K | 3.5% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 274 | Ball Ground GA | 3,470 | $118K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,796 | Hornellsville NY | 3,892 | $73K | 8.4% | 6.3% | 13% | C |
| 2,797 | Amenia NY | 4,052 | $76K | 9.0% | 6.0% | 13% | C |
| 2,798 | Lindale GA | 4,289 | $44K | 25.5% | 1.8% | 4% | C |
| 2,799 | Gatlinburg TN | 3,715 | $53K | 13.5% | 3.6% | 45% | C |
| 2,800 | Reno TX | 3,575 | $72K | 11.2% | 5.5% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,039 | 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 Lindale, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Work next door: 31% of Lindale’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Rome. Darker towns draw more of Lindale’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Lindale: questions
What is the median household income in Lindale?
$43,561 (±$12,453) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lindale?
25.5%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lindale?
20 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lindale work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rome (31%, 5 mi), Atlanta (3%, 52 mi), Calhoun (2%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lindale walkable?
Lindale is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lindale without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lindale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lindale
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.