Dorchester Academy Boys' Dormitory · Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs and the daily commute in Midway
Only 4% stay in Midway for work; outside it, Savannah is the main destination (20%, 20 miles). Midway grades C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. For 9% 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
Work in Midway: the figures worth knowing
Midway has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Midway went from 599 in 2013 to 938 in 2023, +57%. The jobs ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
46% of the jobs in Midway are in trade, transport and utilities, against 27% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
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 848 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Midway gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Midway is better than 33% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Midway’s grade up ($80,580, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.6%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Midway could be anywhere from D to B+.
What work there is in Midway: 938 jobs
938 jobs are based in Midway.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Midway, 2013 → 2023: 599 → 938. 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 Midway’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 813 residents head out to work, 35 work right here, and 903 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 (1.11 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.
Where the trip to work from Midway ends
Where Midway clocks in
13% 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.
A commute of about 30 minutes in Midway
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Midway workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 937 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.
How many miles Midway commutes
About 21% 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 Midway, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Midway is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Midway near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,025 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). 6.4% of Midway households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Midway’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200, Midway ranks 3,089th of 4,995 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Berkeley Lake GA | 2,034 | $166K | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 118 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 202 | Isle of Hope GA | 2,053 | $105K | 1.4% | 1.3% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,087 | Pittsford VT | 2,859 | $70K | 11.3% | 4.2% | 11% | C |
| 3,088 | Lawai HI | 2,718 | $104K | 9.9% | 9.1% | 3% | C |
| 3,089 | Midway GA | 2,387 | $81K | 17.6% | 4.2% | 4% | C |
| 3,090 | Shenandoah VA | 2,480 | $71K | 14.2% | 3.9% | 5% | C |
| 3,091 | Cameron WI | 1,834 | $62K | 8.9% | 2.5% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Midway, 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 Midway: questions
What is the median household income in Midway?
$80,580 (±$13,186) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Midway?
17.6%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Midway?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Midway work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Savannah (20%, 20 mi), Hinesville (13%, 11 mi), Pooler (5%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Midway walkable?
Midway is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Midway without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Midway, from the people who make the trip.
More of Midway
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.