For about half of its working residents, Montgomery is a commute to Savannah
Home is the office for 4% of workers; Georgia has 16%. Jobs and income earn Montgomery B+; getting around on foot earns it C−. Only 4% work in Montgomery; the top destination outside it is Savannah (45%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Montgomery
Montgomery is a place people come home to
There are 326 jobs based in Montgomery, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Montgomery has about 3,600 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Montgomery 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 ↓
Few Montgomery workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Georgia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Montgomery
59% of Montgomery residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 40% of the jobs based in Montgomery pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 96% leave town for their job. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Montgomery
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Montgomery is better than 70% of U.S. towns, #49 of 263 in Georgia. Unemployment holds Montgomery’s grade up (2.6%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (12.0%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Montgomery could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Montgomery by day and by night
On a workday 1,592 residents head out to work, 61 work right here, and 265 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,600 people are in Montgomery on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
0.20 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 21 minutes each way for Montgomery’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Montgomery workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,298 commuters (the 4% 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.
In Montgomery, 28% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
326 jobs are based in Montgomery.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Montgomery, 2013 → 2023: 172 → 326. 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 Montgomery’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Out of Montgomery to work: where people go
Where Montgomery clocks in
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.
How far it is to work from Montgomery
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 Montgomery, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Montgomery is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns, #224 of 263 in Georgia. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 2,382 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 48% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 49% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.2% of Montgomery households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Montgomery’s commuters take a bus or train.
Montgomery next to U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,700: 1,194th of 3,692 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
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| 74 | Grayson GA | 5,569 | $131K | 3.5% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 157 | Senoia GA | 6,276 | $125K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,192 | West Jefferson OH | 5,827 | $64K | 8.9% | 2.1% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,193 | Floyd NY | 3,668 | $98K | 13.0% | 1.3% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,194 | Montgomery GA | 4,976 | $91K | 12.0% | 2.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,195 | Simonton Lake IN | 4,248 | $76K | 11.5% | 1.7% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,196 | Peppermill Village MD | 5,238 | $86K | 8.1% | 5.4% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,692 | 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 Montgomery, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Work next door: 48% of Montgomery’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Montgomery workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery | – | B+ | C− | 21 min | $90,843 |
| Savannah | 45% | C | A | 21 min | $57,137 |
| Skidaway Island | 3% | A− | C | 27 min | $136,156 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Savannah. Darker towns draw more of Montgomery’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 Montgomery: questions
What is the median household income in Montgomery?
$90,843 (±$25,251) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Montgomery?
12.0%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Montgomery?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Montgomery work?
4% work in town.
Is Montgomery walkable?
Montgomery is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Montgomery without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Montgomery, from the people who make the trip.
More of Montgomery
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.