Ebenezer Townsite and Jerusalem Lutheran Church · Photo: Bubba73 (Jud McCranie) · CC BY-SA 4.0Rincon has higher unemployment (9.5%) than 93% of U.S. towns
7% of workers work from home, where Georgia as a whole has 16%. Jobs and income earn Rincon C+; getting around on foot earns it B−. Only 6% work in Rincon; the top destination outside it is Savannah (23%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Rincon
Rincon has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Rincon went from 1,348 in 2013 to 2,310 in 2023, +71%. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Rincon
59% of Rincon residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 32% of the jobs based in Rincon pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Rincon pay little
28% of the jobs based in Rincon pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 36% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Where Rincon’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Rincon is better than 37% of U.S. towns, #137 of 263 in Georgia. The poverty rate holds Rincon’s grade up (9.0%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Rincon could be anywhere from C− to B.
What the 2,310 jobs in Rincon are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rincon, 2013 → 2023: 1,348 → 2,310. 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 Rincon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Rincon
On a workday 4,630 residents head out to work, 278 work right here, and 2,032 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,100 people are in Rincon on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.47 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.
Where the trip to work from Rincon ends
Where Rincon clocks in
3% 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.
How long Rincon spends getting to work: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rincon workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,815 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 Rincon’s workers travel
About 18% 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.
Rincon is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rincon is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns, #171 of 263 in Georgia. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.5% of 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 5,188 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). 4.3% of Rincon households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rincon’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,942nd of 2,695: where Rincon ranks among U.S. towns of 8,000 to 16,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Tyrone GA | 8,091 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 336 | Vinings GA | 14,390 | $95K | 6.2% | 2.2% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 428 | Flowery Branch GA | 13,110 | $104K | 6.1% | 2.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,940 | Derry Township PA | 13,360 | $66K | 14.4% | 4.5% | 13% | C+ |
| 1,941 | Fredericksburg TX | 11,893 | $65K | 9.2% | 4.3% | 40% | C+ |
| 1,942 | Rincon GA | 11,726 | $74K | 9.0% | 9.5% | 6% | C+ |
| 1,943 | Jerome ID | 13,731 | $67K | 11.2% | 4.6% | 24% | C+ |
| 1,944 | Festus MO | 14,066 | $74K | 17.1% | 6.6% | 9% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,695 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Rincon, 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 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 Rincon: questions
What is the median household income in Rincon?
$74,417 (±$7,953) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rincon?
9.0%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rincon?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rincon work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Savannah (23%, 20 mi), Pooler (7%, 13 mi), Garden City (3%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rincon walkable?
Rincon is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rincon without a car?
0% 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 Rincon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rincon
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.