Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Offerman works elsewhere
0% of workers work from home, where Georgia as a whole has 16%. Employers in Offerman report 90 jobs for 164 working residents. Only 2% work in Offerman; the top destination outside it is Blackshear (17%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Offerman
On a workday 160 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 86 people come in from elsewhere.
About 400 people are in Offerman on a workday afternoon, 16% 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 2023, primary jobs.
The places Offerman commutes to
Where Offerman clocks in
17% of workers
13% of workers
9% 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.
Offerman makes things: 100% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Offerman, 2013 → 2023: 43 → 90. 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 Offerman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Offerman takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Offerman workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 173 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.
How far Offerman’s workers travel
About 23% 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.
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 Offerman: questions
What is the median household income in Offerman?
$32,708 (±$16,552) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Offerman?
56.9%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Offerman?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Offerman work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Blackshear (17%, 12 mi), Waycross (13%, 20 mi), Jesup (9%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Offerman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Offerman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Offerman
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.