Valdosta draws about half of Moody AFB’s working residents
For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Georgia has 16%. Getting around Moody AFB on foot earns C+. Hardly any work in Moody AFB itself; outside it, Valdosta draws the most (47%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Moody AFB: the gist
Nearly half of Moody AFB works in Valdosta
162 working residents, 47%, have their main job in Valdosta, 9.7 miles away. That’s far more as work in Moody AFB itself. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Moody AFB are quick
The average trip to work takes 8 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 153 hours a year less on the road than the typical Georgia worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Moody AFB 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 348 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Moody AFB goes to work
Where Moody AFB clocks in
47% of workers
3% of workers
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.
About 8 minutes each way for Moody AFB’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moody AFB workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 912 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 347 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 232 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.
0.67 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.
Services make up most of the work in Moody AFB
233 jobs are based in Moody AFB.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moody AFB, 2013 → 2023: 75 → 233. 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 Moody AFB’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Moody AFB goes to work
About 27% 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 Moody AFB, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Moody AFB is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 912 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). 0.0% of Moody AFB households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Moody AFB’s commuters take a bus or train.
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 Moody AFB: questions
What is the poverty rate in Moody AFB?
44.9%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moody AFB?
8 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moody AFB work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Valdosta (47%, 10 mi), Adel (3%, 17 mi), Tifton (2%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moody AFB walkable?
Moody AFB is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moody AFB 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 Moody AFB, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moody AFB
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.