Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Meigs works elsewhere
Only 1% work in Meigs itself; outside it, Thomasville draws the most (18%, 17 miles). Employers in Meigs report 35 jobs; 307 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 0% of workers (Georgia 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Meigs apart
Meigs is a place people come home to
There are 35 jobs based in Meigs, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Meigs has about 680 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Meigs workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 16% across Georgia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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; with 307 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Meigs on a workday afternoon
On a workday 303 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 680 people are in Meigs on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
How long Meigs spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Meigs workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 241 commuters (the 0% 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.
Commuting out of Meigs: the destinations
Where Meigs clocks in
18% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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.
What Meigs’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Meigs, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 35. 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 Meigs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Meigs
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.
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 Meigs: questions
What is the median household income in Meigs?
$36,458 (±$16,341) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Meigs?
57.0%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Meigs?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Meigs work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Thomasville (18%, 17 mi), Camilla (9%, 13 mi), Moultrie (9%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Meigs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 22% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Meigs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Meigs
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.