Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Lula has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Only 1% work in Lula itself; outside it, Gainesville draws the most (22%, 12 miles). Employers in Lula report 284 jobs, and 1,355 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Lula is better than 60% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Lula: the figures worth knowing
Lula’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Unemployment holds Lula’s grade up (2.3%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($69,397, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lula could be anywhere from C to A−.
The daily flow of workers through Lula
On a workday 1,341 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 270 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Lula 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.
Where people from Lula work
Where Lula clocks in
22% of workers
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.
Jobs in Lula: what the 284 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lula, 2013 → 2023: 173 → 284. 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 Lula’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Lula
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lula workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,352 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.
Lula’s commute, mile by mile
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.
The commute in Lula is mostly behind the wheel
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,512 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). 3.5% of Lula households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lula’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,100, Lula ranks 1,770th of 4,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 259 | Ball Ground GA | 3,470 | $118K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 336 | Chattahoochee Hills GA | 3,524 | $112K | 1.1% | 3.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,768 | Thetford VT | 2,863 | $88K | 8.0% | 2.4% | 16% | B |
| 1,769 | East Oakdale CA | 2,269 | $120K | 11.9% | 1.6% | 1% | B |
| 1,770 | Lula GA | 3,048 | $69K | 10.9% | 2.3% | 1% | B |
| 1,771 | Shapleigh ME | 3,025 | $88K | 5.3% | 2.9% | 3% | B |
| 1,772 | Stafford NY | 2,386 | $88K | 7.8% | 4.5% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,771 | 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 Lula, 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 Lula: questions
What is the median household income in Lula?
$69,397 (±$20,683) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lula?
10.9%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lula?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lula work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gainesville (22%, 12 mi), Atlanta (3%, 62 mi), Oakwood (3%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lula walkable?
Lula is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lula without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lula, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lula
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.