Photo: SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Lone Oak commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
3 jobs are based in Lone Oak, and 44 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Lone Oak itself; outside it, Peachtree City draws the most (9%, 21 miles). For 8% of workers, the job is at home, where Georgia as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Lone Oak by day
On a workday 44 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 75 people are in Lone Oak on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
The towns that employ Lone Oak’s residents
Where Lone Oak clocks in
9% of workers
7% 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.
Lone Oak is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lone Oak, 2013 → 2023: 54 → 3. 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 Lone Oak’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Lone Oak: about 33 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lone Oak workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 46 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Lone Oak
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.
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 Lone Oak: questions
What is the poverty rate in Lone Oak?
55.2%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lone Oak?
33 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lone Oak work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Peachtree City (9%, 21 mi), Atlanta (9%, 47 mi), Newnan (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lone Oak without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lone Oak, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lone Oak
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.