Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Omega earn less than those in 95% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 34.1%, against 13.4% across Georgia. Omega grades D− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Home is the office for 1% of workers (Georgia 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Omega, in brief
Omega and Tifton trade workers both ways
Tifton is the top workplace for Omega residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Omega come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Omega 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 395 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Omega earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Omega is better than 4% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Omega’s grade up (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Omega’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, Omega could be anywhere from D− to C−.
23% of working residents work in Tifton
Where Omega clocks in
23% of workers
5% 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.
About 31 minutes each way for Omega’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Omega workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 451 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.
How a workday changes Omega
On a workday 367 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 179 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Omega on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.52 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Factories, building and farms: 28% of the jobs in Omega
207 jobs are based in Omega.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Omega, 2013 → 2023: 237 → 207. 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 Omega’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Omega commutes less than 11 miles
About 17% 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.
Driving is how Omega gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Omega is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 7.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 455 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). 7.0% of Omega households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Omega’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Omega compares with U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 162 | Winterville GA | 1,203 | $111K | 3.2% | 0.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 332 | Cataula GA | 1,522 | $124K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 335 | Clermont GA | 1,165 | $136K | 4.7% | 3.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,974 | Foscoe NC | 1,226 | $49K | 22.3% | 8.3% | 6% | D− |
| 4,975 | Rose Lodge OR | 1,381 | $59K | 23.6% | 0.0% | 3% | D− |
| 4,976 | Omega GA | 1,341 | $42K | 34.1% | 2.6% | 7% | D− |
| 4,977 | Osburn ID | 1,673 | $51K | 18.5% | 2.2% | 16% | D− |
| 4,978 | Shelburn IN | 1,103 | $46K | 24.7% | 1.1% | 1% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Omega, 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 Omega: questions
What is the median household income in Omega?
$41,563 (±$29,658) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Omega?
34.1%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Omega?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Omega work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tifton (23%, 10 mi), Valdosta (5%, 39 mi), Moultrie (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Omega walkable?
Omega is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Omega without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Omega, from the people who make the trip.
More of Omega
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.