Rockmart Downtown Historic District · Photo: Ecto1699 · CC BY-SA 4.0Unemployment in Rockmart (8.7%) is higher than in 91% of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are lower than in 79% of U.S. towns. For jobs and income Rockmart is better than 38% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (C−). Working from home is the commute for 5% 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
Rockmart and work: the main findings
Rockmart makes and builds things
54% of the jobs based in Rockmart are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Rockmart residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Rockmart is where the jobs are
Rockmart has 3,628 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Rockmart has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Rockmart went from 2,163 in 2013 to 3,628 in 2023, +68%. 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.
How Rockmart earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Rockmart’s grade up (3.1%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Rockmart could be anywhere from C to A−.
Goods jobs make up 54% of work in Rockmart
3,628 jobs are based in Rockmart.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rockmart, 2013 → 2023: 2,163 → 3,628. 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 Rockmart’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Rockmart
On a workday 1,520 residents head out to work, 256 work right here, and 3,372 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,200 people are in Rockmart on a workday afternoon, 34% more than live here.
2.0 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 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting in to Rockmart: where workers come from
Where Rockmart clocks in
4% 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.
Commuting from Rockmart: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rockmart workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,086 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.
How far Rockmart’s workers travel
About 15% 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.
Driving is how Rockmart gets around
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 2,205 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). 3.9% of Rockmart households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rockmart’s commuters take a bus or train.
Rockmart next to U.S. towns of 3,800 to 7,200: 2,293rd of 3,488 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Grayson GA | 5,569 | $131K | 3.5% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 158 | Senoia GA | 6,276 | $125K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 397 | Temple GA | 6,564 | $91K | 2.6% | 1.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,291 | Washington Township OH | 4,183 | $64K | 27.6% | 1.9% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,292 | Gardnerville NV | 5,486 | $62K | 14.4% | 2.2% | 14% | C+ |
| 2,293 | Rockmart GA | 5,369 | $57K | 3.1% | 8.7% | 14% | C+ |
| 2,294 | Blooming Grove Township PA | 5,751 | $85K | 4.4% | 8.1% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,295 | Doffing TX | 5,004 | $32K | 29.8% | 1.4% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,488 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Rockmart, 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 Rockmart: questions
What is the median household income in Rockmart?
$56,828 (±$7,273) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rockmart?
3.1%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rockmart?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rockmart work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rome (7%, 20 mi), Cartersville (4%, 18 mi), Cedartown (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rockmart walkable?
Rockmart is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rockmart 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 Rockmart, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rockmart
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.