Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Norman Park works elsewhere
Employers in Norman Park report 143 jobs; 367 of its residents have a job. Norman Park grades D for jobs and income and D for walkability. Measured by household income, Norman Park is behind 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Norman Park, in brief
Where Norman Park’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Norman Park is better than 6% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Norman Park’s grade.
Unemployment (5.3%) is left out: Norman Park’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, Norman Park could be anywhere from D− to C−.
28% of working residents work in Moultrie
Where Norman Park clocks in
28% of workers
5% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Norman Park
On a workday 363 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 139 people come in from elsewhere.
About 780 people are in Norman Park on a workday afternoon, 22% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Services make up most of the work in Norman Park
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Norman Park, 2014 → 2024: 70 → 143. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Norman Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes to work from Norman Park
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Norman Park workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 437 commuters (the 6% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Norman Park
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around Norman Park: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Norman Park is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Norman Park near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 466 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). 2.7% of Norman Park households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Norman Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,781st of 3,133: where Norman Park ranks among 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% | 2% | 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% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,779 | Panama OK | 1,314 | $47K | 29.0% | 6.2% | 1% | D |
| 2,780 | Dovesville SC | 1,120 | $32K | 52.9% | 5.0% | <1% | D |
| 2,781 | Norman Park GA | 1,007 | $51K | 21.5% | 5.3% | 1% | D |
| 2,782 | Frazee MN | 1,310 | $47K | 22.3% | 7.1% | 5% | D |
| 2,783 | Elkhart TX | 1,265 | $53K | 28.0% | 17.0% | 11% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Norman Park, 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 2024, 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 Norman Park: questions
What is the median household income in Norman Park?
$50,529 (±$12,367) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Norman Park?
21.5%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Norman Park?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Norman Park work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Moultrie (28%, 9 mi), Tifton (5%, 16 mi), Thomasville (2%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Norman Park walkable?
Norman Park is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Norman Park without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Norman Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Norman Park
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.