Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Work, pay and getting to work in Sautee-Nacoochee
0% of workers have no commute at all (Georgia 16%). Hardly any work in Sautee-Nacoochee itself; outside it, Helen draws the most (18%, 3 miles). Sautee-Nacoochee has 124 jobs, and 148 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Sautee-Nacoochee
On a workday 148 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 124 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 (0.84 per resident).
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 Sautee-Nacoochee goes to work
Where Sautee-Nacoochee 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.
The kinds of work in Sautee-Nacoochee
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sautee-Nacoochee, 2013 → 2023: 48 → 124. 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 Sautee-Nacoochee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Sautee-Nacoochee
of Sautee-Nacoochee workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 166 commuters (the 0% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Sautee-Nacoochee
About 30% 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.
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 Sautee-Nacoochee: questions
What is the median household income in Sautee-Nacoochee?
$47,185 (±$28,428) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sautee-Nacoochee?
6.6%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Sautee-Nacoochee work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Helen (18%, 3 mi), Clarkesville (4%, 10 mi), Gainesville (4%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sautee-Nacoochee without a car?
0% 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 Sautee-Nacoochee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sautee-Nacoochee
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.