Brantley County Courthouse · Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Nahunta trail those of 92% of U.S. towns
1% of workers have no commute at all, next to 16% for Georgia as a whole. 29.3% of residents are in poverty; Georgia has 13.4%. For jobs and income Nahunta is better than 2% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Nahunta and work: the main findings
Nahunta is where the jobs are
Nahunta has 819 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,500 people are in town, 41% more than the 1,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
Few Nahunta workers work from home
Only 1% 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 387 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Nahunta’s Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Nahunta’s grade.
Unemployment (4.2%) is left out: Nahunta’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Nahunta could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The daily commute in and out of Nahunta
On a workday 324 residents head out to work, 63 work right here, and 756 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Nahunta on a workday afternoon, 41% more than live here.
2.1 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.
Commuting from Nahunta: about 32 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Nahunta workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 442 commuters (the 1% 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.
Where the people who work in Nahunta live
Where Nahunta clocks in
4% 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.
Inside Nahunta’s 819 jobs
819 jobs are based in Nahunta.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Nahunta, 2013 → 2023: 829 → 819. 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 Nahunta’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Nahunta
About 29% 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.
Few in Nahunta walk, bike or ride to work
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 447 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). 4.0% of Nahunta households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Nahunta’s commuters take a bus or train.
Nahunta next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 87 | Winterville GA | 1,203 | $111K | 3.2% | 0.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 163 | Clermont GA | 1,165 | $136K | 4.7% | 3.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 408 | Robins AFB GA | 1,193 | $107K | 5.9% | 9.9% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,000 | Brighton VT | 1,251 | $47K | 22.0% | 3.9% | 24% | D− |
| 3,001 | Midway AR | 1,279 | $31K | 30.8% | 0.0% | 2% | D− |
| 3,002 | Nahunta GA | 1,059 | $46K | 29.3% | 4.2% | 16% | D− |
| 3,003 | Rich Hill MO | 1,264 | $47K | 33.7% | 6.5% | 9% | D− |
| 3,004 | Stamford NY | 1,034 | $44K | 23.1% | 7.9% | 17% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Nahunta, 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 Nahunta: questions
What is the median household income in Nahunta?
$45,893 (±$26,693) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Nahunta?
29.3%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Nahunta?
32 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Nahunta work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waycross (4%, 22 mi), Brunswick (4%, 31 mi), Dock Junction (4%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Nahunta walkable?
Nahunta is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Nahunta without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Nahunta, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nahunta
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.