Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Moultrie trail those of 94% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 28.0% of residents, next to 13.4% for Georgia as a whole. Jobs and income earn Moultrie D; getting around on foot earns it B−. 4% of workers have no commute at all, 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 Moultrie, in a few figures
Commutes from Moultrie are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical Georgia worker. Time on the road ↓
Moultrie is where the jobs are
Moultrie has 10,732 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Moultrie draws workers from far and wide
The 10,732 jobs in Moultrie are filled from a wide area. Moultrie’s own residents hold 21% and the ten next-biggest home towns 12%; the other 67% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Fewer than half of Moultrie workers earn over $40,000 a year
38% of Moultrie’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 19% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Few Moultrie 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 ↓
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.
Why Moultrie gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Moultrie is better than 7% of U.S. towns, #225 of 263 in Georgia. Job access by car holds Moultrie’s grade up (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Moultrie could be anywhere from D− to C−.
About 18 minutes each way, quicker than most of Georgia
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moultrie workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,832 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.
Moultrie by day and by night
On a workday 3,289 residents head out to work, 2,259 work right here, and 8,473 people come in from elsewhere.
About 20,000 people are in Moultrie on a workday afternoon, 35% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
The towns that send workers to Moultrie
Where Moultrie clocks in
3% 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.
Inside Moultrie’s 10,732 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moultrie, 2013 → 2023: 9,908 → 10,732. 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 Moultrie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Moultrie
About 25% 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.
Moultrie is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Moultrie is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns, #168 of 263 in Georgia. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.8% of 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 6,069 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). 10.6% of Moultrie households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Moultrie’s commuters take a bus or train.
Moultrie and other U.S. towns of 10,000 to 20,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 314 | Vinings GA | 14,390 | $95K | 6.2% | 2.2% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 390 | Flowery Branch GA | 13,110 | $104K | 6.1% | 2.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 430 | North Druid Hills GA | 17,997 | $103K | 11.1% | 1.5% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,305 | Somerset KY | 12,695 | $35K | 27.2% | 8.7% | 47% | D |
| 2,306 | Makaha HI | 10,066 | $65K | 25.0% | 10.0% | 1% | D |
| 2,307 | Moultrie GA | 14,973 | $44K | 28.0% | 7.1% | 41% | D |
| 2,308 | Eufaula AL | 12,437 | $47K | 20.4% | 5.6% | 32% | D |
| 2,309 | Martin TN | 11,060 | $43K | 26.3% | 6.4% | 34% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,362 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Moultrie, 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 Moultrie: questions
What is the median household income in Moultrie?
$43,670 (±$3,862) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moultrie?
28.0%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moultrie?
18 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moultrie work?
41% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Thomasville (3%, 26 mi), Albany (3%, 36 mi), Valdosta (2%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moultrie walkable?
Moultrie is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moultrie without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moultrie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moultrie
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.