Photo: United States Air Force · Public domainA job hub: Robins AFB has 10.1 jobs per working resident, and 1,687 people come in to work
Household incomes here are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns. There are 1,690 jobs in Robins AFB, and 168 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Robins AFB are B+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Inside Robins AFB’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Robins AFB is better than 73% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Robins AFB’s grade up ($106,667, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (9.9%) is left out: Robins AFB’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, Robins AFB could be anywhere from C− to A.
Robins AFB’s population more than doubles on a workday
On a workday 165 residents head out to work and 3 work right here.
About 2,700 people are in Robins AFB on a workday afternoon, 128% more than live here.
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 people who work in Robins AFB live
Where Robins AFB clocks in
11% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
Robins AFB is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Robins AFB, 2013 → 2023: 1,007 → 1,690. 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 Robins AFB’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Robins AFB: about 10 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Robins AFB workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 632 commuters (the 10% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Robins AFB
About 64% 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.
Most trips from Robins AFB start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Robins AFB is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 700 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 Robins AFB households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Robins AFB’s commuters take a bus or train.
Robins AFB next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600: 600th of 4,312 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 130 | Winterville GA | 1,203 | $111K | 3.2% | 0.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 256 | Cataula GA | 1,522 | $124K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 258 | Clermont GA | 1,165 | $136K | 4.7% | 3.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 598 | St. George MO | 1,458 | $68K | 7.5% | 1.4% | 1% | B+ |
| 599 | Stony Point NC | 1,372 | $73K | 1.7% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 600 | Robins AFB GA | 1,193 | $107K | 5.9% | 9.9% | 2% | B+ |
| 601 | Jackson Township OH | 1,152 | $93K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 602 | Little Wolf WI | 1,373 | $94K | 4.6% | 1.2% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Robins AFB, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Bordering towns draw 11% of Robins AFB’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Robins AFB workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robins AFB | – | B+ | B− | 10 min | $106,667 |
| Warner Robins | 11% | C | C+ | 22 min | $66,970 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Warner Robins. Darker towns draw more of Robins AFB’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 Robins AFB: questions
What is the median household income in Robins AFB?
$106,667 (±$75,841) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Robins AFB?
5.9%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Robins AFB?
10 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Robins AFB work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Warner Robins (11%, 4 mi), Macon-Bibb County (8%, 15 mi), Atlanta (8%, 93 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Robins AFB walkable?
Robins AFB is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Robins AFB without a car?
2% 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 Robins AFB, from the people who make the trip.
More of Robins AFB
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.