Raoul has lower household incomes than 93% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 9.7% of residents, where Georgia as a whole has 13.4%. Raoul grades C for jobs and income and D for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers, where Georgia as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Raoul at work: what stands out
Fewer jobs are based in Raoul than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Raoul fell from 781 in 2013 to 205 in 2023, −74%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Raoul is a place people come home to
There are 205 jobs based in Raoul, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Raoul has about 1,400 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Raoul workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 28 across Georgia. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. 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.
Why Raoul gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Raoul is better than 31% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Raoul’s grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($44,597, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (4.3%) is left out: Raoul’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, Raoul could be anywhere from D to B+.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Raoul
205 jobs are based in Raoul.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Raoul, 2013 → 2023: 781 → 205. 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 Raoul’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Raoul, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,049 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 204 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Raoul on a workday afternoon, 38% fewer than live here.
0.20 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.
Getting to work from Raoul takes about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Raoul workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 412 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.
14% of working residents work in Gainesville
Where Raoul clocks in
14% 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 distance from Raoul to work
About 27% 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.
For most of Raoul, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Raoul is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Raoul near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 449 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). 0.0% of Raoul households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Raoul’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Raoul is 3,228th among 5,102 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 108 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 191 | Isle of Hope GA | 2,053 | $105K | 1.4% | 1.3% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,226 | Randolph Township PA | 1,683 | $76K | 11.5% | 2.3% | 4% | C |
| 3,227 | Huntington Township PA | 2,103 | $62K | 7.3% | 5.2% | 4% | C |
| 3,228 | Raoul GA | 2,253 | $45K | 9.7% | 4.3% | <1% | C |
| 3,229 | Delmar DE | 2,366 | $61K | 9.2% | 4.6% | 5% | C |
| 3,230 | Adams Township IN | 1,853 | $55K | 11.3% | 0.9% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | 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 Raoul, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Next door to Raoul
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Raoul’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 Raoul: questions
What is the median household income in Raoul?
$44,597 (±$19,031) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Raoul?
9.7%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Raoul?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Raoul work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gainesville (14%, 17 mi), Cornelia (6%, 6 mi), Baldwin (3%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Raoul walkable?
Raoul is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Raoul 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 Raoul, from the people who make the trip.
More of Raoul
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.