Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0Remerton has some of the lowest household incomes of any U.S. town
Remerton grades D for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Household incomes here are among the lowest in the country. Leaving out college students, 42.6% of residents live below the poverty line, against 12.8% across Georgia.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Remerton apart on work
More than half of Remerton works in Valdosta
221 working residents, 51%, have their main job in Valdosta, 1.8 miles away. That’s 51 times as many as work in Remerton itself. The commute map ↓
Many jobs in Remerton pay little
43% of the jobs based in Remerton pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 48% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Most Remerton residents work close to home
61% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 430 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Remerton earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Remerton is better than 11% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Remerton’s grade up (ahead of 60% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($26,824, U.S. $80,734).
21% of Remerton’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (21% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 42.6%, against 41.3% for all residents. Unemployment (5.5%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Household income is not adjusted: student households count in the median.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Remerton could be anywhere from D to C+.
51% of working residents work in Valdosta
Where Remerton clocks in
51% of workers
2% of workers
2% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
526 jobs are based in Remerton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Remerton, 2014 → 2024: 376 → 526. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Remerton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Remerton works
About 25% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The workday shuffle in and out of Remerton
On a workday 427 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 523 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.22 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
From Remerton, about 17 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Remerton workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 689 commuters (the 5% 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.
Remerton is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Remerton is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.1% across Georgia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 729 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). 21.2% of Remerton households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Remerton’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Remerton ranks: 3,945th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 145 | Winterville GA | 1,203 | $111K | 3.2% | 0.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 296 | Cataula GA | 1,522 | $124K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 299 | Clermont GA | 1,165 | $136K | 4.7% | 3.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,943 | Bridgewater NY | 1,514 | $45K | 18.3% | 4.1% | 7% | D |
| 3,944 | North Shenango Township PA | 1,279 | $52K | 11.4% | 4.7% | 6% | D |
| 3,945 | Remerton GA | 1,291 | $27K | 41.3% | 5.5% | 1% | D |
| 3,946 | Bowman ND | 1,357 | $63K | 15.5% | 2.7% | 39% | D |
| 3,947 | Rockaway Beach OR | 1,455 | $54K | 11.3% | 6.7% | 8% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Remerton, 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 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Students. 21% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Remerton: questions
What is the median household income in Remerton?
$26,824 (±$9,079) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Remerton?
41.3% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 42.6%. Georgia: 13.4%.
How long is the commute from Remerton?
17 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Remerton work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Valdosta (51%, 2 mi), Moultrie (2%, 37 mi), Thomasville (2%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Remerton walkable?
Remerton is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 11.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Remerton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 21% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Remerton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Remerton
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.