Norwood has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
There are 2 jobs in Norwood; 86 of its residents have a job. Only 1% stay in Norwood for work; outside it, Augusta is the main destination (12%, 37 miles). 29% of workers work from home (Georgia 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Norwood
On a workday 85 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Norwood on a workday afternoon, 43% 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.
Where Norwood goes to work
Where Norwood clocks in
6% 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 kinds of work in Norwood
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Norwood, 2014 → 2024: 13 → 2. 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 Norwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Norwood
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Norwood workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 68 commuters (the 29% 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 Norwood
About 32% 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.
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 Norwood: questions
What is the median household income in Norwood?
$31,080 (±$8,274) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Norwood?
28.0%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Norwood?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Norwood work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Augusta (12%, 37 mi), Warrenton (6%, 4 mi), Thomson (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Norwood without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Norwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Norwood
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.