Photo: OnlineInfamous · CC BY-SA 4.0Augusta draws about two in five of Martinez’s working residents
9% of workers work from home; Georgia has 16%. Jobs and income earn Martinez B−; getting around on foot earns it B−. About one in ten work in Martinez itself; outside it, Augusta draws the most (40%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Martinez: the gist
Martinez trades workers with the towns around it
Martinez has about as many jobs (12,863) as working residents (13,727), but they are mostly different people: 12,350 residents leave for work each day while 11,486 people come in. Only 11% of the jobs in Martinez are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Martinez are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Georgia worker. Time on the road ↓
Most Martinez residents work close to home
64% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
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.
Where Martinez’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Martinez is better than 53% of U.S. towns, #97 of 263 in Georgia. Job access by car holds Martinez’s grade up (ahead of 74% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.1%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Martinez could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Who leaves Martinez for work, and who comes in
On a workday 12,350 residents head out to work, 1,377 work right here, and 11,486 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 (0.94 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.
A commute of about 21 minutes in Martinez
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Martinez workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 15,014 commuters (the 9% 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.
Where in the region Martinez works
About 26% 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.
Where Martinez goes to work
Where Martinez clocks in
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.
Jobs in Martinez: what the 12,863 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Martinez, 2013 → 2023: 10,824 → 12,863. 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 Martinez’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most trips from Martinez start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Martinez is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns, #152 of 263 in Georgia. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.0% 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 16,568 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). 4.1% of Martinez households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Martinez’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Martinez is 842nd among 1,255 U.S. towns of 24,000 to 46,000
| # | 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% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Milton GA | 41,266 | $171K | 4.3% | 2.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 245 | Decatur GA | 25,276 | $139K | 6.2% | 4.3% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 269 | Woodstock GA | 39,895 | $103K | 6.6% | 2.7% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 840 | Jefferson City MO | 42,489 | $66K | 12.0% | 3.2% | 58% | B− |
| 841 | Vero Beach South FL | 30,344 | $73K | 9.1% | 3.8% | 7% | B− |
| 842 | Martinez GA | 33,750 | $82K | 10.0% | 6.1% | 10% | B− |
| 843 | Patterson CA | 26,587 | $94K | 9.0% | 5.7% | 16% | B− |
| 844 | Midland MI | 42,806 | $73K | 10.3% | 4.1% | 43% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,255 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Martinez, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Work next door: 48% of Martinez’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Augusta. Darker towns draw more of Martinez’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 Martinez: questions
What is the median household income in Martinez?
$81,602 (±$8,659) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Martinez?
10.0%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Martinez?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Martinez work?
10% work in town.
Is Martinez walkable?
Martinez is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Martinez without a car?
<1% 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 Martinez, from the people who make the trip.
More of Martinez
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.