Woodmanston Site · Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0There are 5.7 jobs in Riceboro for every working resident, and 1,628 people commute in
There are 1,656 jobs in Riceboro, and 292 of its residents work somewhere. About one in ten work in Riceboro; the top destination outside it is Savannah (16%, 25 miles). The trip to work takes 26 minutes on average; Georgia averages 28, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Riceboro at work: what stands out
Riceboro fills up on a workday
Riceboro has 1,656 jobs, 5.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,000 people are in town, 3 times the 680 who live here. Day and night ↓
Riceboro makes and builds things
97% of the jobs based in Riceboro are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Riceboro residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Riceboro pay better than its residents’ jobs
93% of the jobs based in Riceboro pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 50% of the jobs Riceboro residents hold. 98% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Riceboro. The jobs ↓
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 292 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How a workday changes Riceboro
On a workday 264 residents head out to work and 28 work right here.
About 2,000 people are in Riceboro on a workday afternoon, 202% more than live here.
5.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Goods, not services: 97% of the jobs in Riceboro
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Riceboro, 2014 → 2024: 1,667 → 1,656. 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 Riceboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Riceboro’s workers come from
Where Riceboro clocks in
13% 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.
About 26 minutes each way, quicker than most of Georgia
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Riceboro workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 204 commuters (the 20% 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.
The distance from Riceboro to work
About 23% 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.
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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Riceboro: questions
What is the median household income in Riceboro?
$35,000 (±$30,610) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Riceboro?
29.4%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Riceboro?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Riceboro work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Savannah (16%, 25 mi), Hinesville (13%, 12 mi), Midway (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Riceboro without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Riceboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Riceboro
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.