Photo: Haha169 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Oxford commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Oxford report 417 jobs for 892 working residents. The two grades for Oxford are C+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability. 7% of workers work from home; Georgia has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Oxford apart
The four measures behind Oxford’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Oxford is better than 42% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Oxford’s grade up (ahead of 74% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($56,563, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Oxford’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Oxford could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Commuting from Oxford: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oxford workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 733 commuters (the 7% 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.
Who commutes out of Oxford, and who commutes in
On a workday 884 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 409 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Oxford on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
14% of working residents work in Covington
Where Oxford clocks in
14% of workers
12% 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.
The kinds of work in Oxford
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oxford, 2013 → 2023: 268 → 417. 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 Oxford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Oxford goes to work
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Oxford
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Oxford is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 23.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 787 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). 2.0% of Oxford households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Oxford’s commuters take a bus or train.
Oxford places 2,710th of 5,328 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Berkeley Lake GA | 2,034 | $166K | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 116 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 200 | Isle of Hope GA | 2,053 | $105K | 1.4% | 1.3% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,708 | Cresson Township PA | 2,809 | $62K | 14.9% | 2.8% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,709 | Rosanky TX | 1,695 | $108K | 31.3% | 1.5% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,710 | Oxford GA | 2,291 | $57K | 12.1% | 2.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,711 | Farmington MS | 2,039 | $57K | 13.7% | 0.0% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,712 | Mapleton ME | 1,909 | $92K | 8.9% | 4.5% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Oxford, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Work next door: 14% of Oxford’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Covington. Darker towns draw more of Oxford’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Oxford: questions
What is the median household income in Oxford?
$56,563 (±$13,644) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oxford?
12.1%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oxford?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oxford work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Covington (14%, 2 mi), Atlanta (12%, 33 mi), Conyers (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Oxford walkable?
Oxford is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 23% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oxford 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 Oxford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oxford
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.