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Jobs & commute in Pulaski

Pulaski has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each

Employers in Pulaski report 8 jobs, against 72 working residents. Hardly any work in Pulaski itself; outside it, Metter draws the most (13%, 6 miles). Home is the office for 7% of workers; Georgia has 16%.

Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made

Day and night

The workday shuffle in and out of Pulaski

On a workday 72 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.

72live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
8work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night230
Workday170
230live here− 72head out to work+ 8come in to work= 170on a workday

About 170 people are in Pulaski on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.11jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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 commute map

Where Pulaski goes to work

PulaskiChester: 1 residents work here (1%)ClaxtonTennille: 1 residents work here (1%)Portal: 1 residents work here (1%)Metter: 9 residents work here (13%)Waycross: 2 residents work here (3%)Garden City: 2 residents work here (3%)Statesboro: 7 residents work here (10%)Pooler: 3 residents work here (4%)Savannah: 6 residents work here (8%)New RochelleAthens: 2 residents work here (3%)AugustaMetterStatesboroSavannahPoolerWaycrossGarden CityPulaski
1
Metter6.4 mi away
13%9
2
Statesboro10.9 mi away
10%7
3
Savannah51.5 mi away
8%6
4
Pooler45.3 mi away
4%3
5
Waycross84.9 mi away
3%2
6
Garden City50 mi away
3%2
7
Athens135.4 mi away
3%2
8
Chester70.1 mi away
1%1
9
Tennille62.6 mi away
1%1
10
Portal10.3 mi away
1%1
Everywhere elseother towns and states
53%38
The top trips

Where Pulaski clocks in

Lines 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 jobs

The kinds of work in Pulaski

Jobs based in PulaskiJobs Pulaski residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms0%21%
Trade, transport & utilities100%24%
Services: health, schools, offices0%56%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less88%25%
$1,251–$3,333 a month13%35%
Over $3,333 a month0%40%

Who does it

29 or younger25%17%
30 to 5475%50%
55 and older0%33%

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 Pulaski’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Time on the road

Commuting from Pulaski: about 23 minutes a trip

A year of commuting
178 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Pulaski23 min
Georgia28 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
7%

of Pulaski workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
How Pulaski gets to work
99%Drive alone
1%Carpool

Share of the 98 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.

How far

Half of Pulaski commutes less than 32 miles

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miMetter: 13% · 6.4 miStatesboro: 10% · 10.9 miSavannah: 8% · 51.5 miPooler: 4% · 45.3 miWaycross: 3% · 84.9 miGarden City: 3% · 50 miAthens: 3% · 135.4 miChester: 1% · 70.1 miTennille: 1% · 62.6 miPortal: 1% · 10.3 miMetter 13%Statesboro 10%Savannah 8%Pooler 4%Waycross 3%Pulaski
PulaskiTop destinations (size = commuters)
29%Under 10 mi20 residents
19%10–24 mi13 residents
11%25–50 mi8 residents
41%Over 50 mi29 residents

About 41% 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.

How to read these numbers

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.

How these figures and grades are made →

Jobs and commuting in Pulaski: questions

What is the poverty rate in Pulaski?

2.6%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).

How long is the commute from Pulaski?

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 Pulaski work?

0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Metter (13%, 6 mi), Statesboro (10%, 11 mi), Savannah (8%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).

Can you get around Pulaski without a car?

0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.

Commuter talk

Getting to work from Pulaski, from the people who make the trip.

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Beyond the commute

More of Pulaski

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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.