Photo: John Phelan · CC BY 4.0Shannon has some of the lowest unemployment in the country, with hardly anyone out of work
For 7% of workers, the job is at home, next to 16% for Georgia as a whole. The two grades for Shannon are B+ for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Only 2% work in Shannon; the top destination outside it is Rome (25%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Shannon apart
Shannon makes and builds things
65% of the jobs based in Shannon are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Shannon residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
Shannon and Rome trade workers both ways
Rome is the top workplace for Shannon residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Shannon come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Shannon pay better than its residents’ jobs
84% of the jobs based in Shannon pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 56% of the jobs Shannon residents hold. 98% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Shannon. 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; with 761 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Shannon’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Shannon is better than 72% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Shannon’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 43% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Shannon could be anywhere from B to A.
Shannon makes things: 65% of its jobs are in goods
626 jobs are based in Shannon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shannon, 2013 → 2023: 665 → 626. 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 Shannon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that employ Shannon’s residents
Where Shannon clocks in
Lines 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 many people are in Shannon by day
On a workday 747 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 612 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 (0.82 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.
Each way, about 28 minutes from Shannon
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shannon workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,059 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.
Half of Shannon commutes less than 17 miles
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The commute in Shannon is mostly behind the wheel
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,138 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 Shannon households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shannon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700, Shannon comes 1,064th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Berkeley Lake GA | 2,034 | $166K | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 120 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 200 | Isle of Hope GA | 2,053 | $105K | 1.4% | 1.3% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,062 | Marion Township IN | 1,988 | $108K | 9.9% | 1.4% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,063 | Monroe Township OH | 1,649 | $81K | 3.7% | 4.3% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,064 | Shannon GA | 2,012 | $81K | 8.1% | 0.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,065 | Kayak Point WA | 1,883 | $119K | 3.4% | 5.0% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,066 | North Pekin IL | 1,447 | $80K | 7.7% | 5.2% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Shannon, 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 Shannon: questions
What is the median household income in Shannon?
$80,722 (±$8,679) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shannon?
8.1%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shannon?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shannon work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rome (25%, 8 mi), Calhoun (7%, 14 mi), Cartersville (3%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shannon walkable?
Shannon is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shannon 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 Shannon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shannon
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.