Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0Poulan has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Only 1% work in Poulan itself; outside it, Sylvester draws the most (13%, 3 miles). 29 jobs are based in Poulan, and 267 of its residents work somewhere. 8% of workers have no commute at all; Georgia has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Poulan and work: the main findings
The workday shuffle in and out of Poulan
On a workday 264 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 26 people come in from elsewhere.
About 480 people are in Poulan on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
Where people from Poulan work
Where Poulan clocks in
13% of workers
11% 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.
The kinds of work in Poulan
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Poulan, 2013 → 2023: 51 → 29. 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 Poulan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes each way for Poulan’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Poulan workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 269 commuters (the 8% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Poulan
About 26% 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 Poulan: questions
What is the median household income in Poulan?
$58,333 (±$25,983) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Poulan?
20.9%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Poulan?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Poulan work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sylvester (13%, 3 mi), Tifton (11%, 16 mi), Albany (9%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Poulan without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Poulan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Poulan
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.