Mineral Bluff Depot · Photo: Chris Teasdale · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Mineral Bluff commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Mineral Bluff report 34 jobs, and 73 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Mineral Bluff itself; outside it, Blue Ridge draws the most (16%, 4 miles). For 0% of workers, the job is at home, against 16% across Georgia.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mineral Bluff by day and by night
On a workday 73 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 34 people come in from elsewhere.
About 260 people are in Mineral Bluff on a workday afternoon, 13% 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 Mineral Bluff’s residents
Where Mineral Bluff clocks in
16% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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 Mineral Bluff’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mineral Bluff, 2013 → 2023: 31 → 34. 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 Mineral Bluff’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 18 minutes in Mineral Bluff
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mineral Bluff workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 207 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.
The commute from Mineral Bluff, by distance
About 44% 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 Mineral Bluff: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mineral Bluff?
24.5%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mineral Bluff?
18 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mineral Bluff work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Blue Ridge (16%, 4 mi), Atlanta (5%, 80 mi), Macon-Bibb County (4%, 149 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mineral Bluff 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 Mineral Bluff, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mineral Bluff
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.