Bulloch County Courthouse · Photo: Bubba73 · CC BY-SA 3.0Statesboro’s family incomes are lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Statesboro D; getting around on foot earns it A−. Not counting college students, poverty touches 24.0% of residents, where Georgia as a whole has 12.8%. About one in three work in Statesboro itself; outside it, Savannah draws the most (9%, 45 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Statesboro: the gist
Statesboro draws workers from far and wide
The 17,743 jobs in Statesboro are filled from a wide area. Statesboro’s own residents hold 17% and the ten next-biggest home towns 9%; the other 74% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Statesboro’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Statesboro is Savannah, 45 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (863) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Statesboro is where the jobs are
Statesboro has 17,743 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A young workforce
35% of Statesboro’s working residents are 29 or younger, about one in three. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Statesboro are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Georgia worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
The four measures behind Statesboro’s grade
On family income, poverty and job access, Statesboro is better than 11% of U.S. towns, #209 of 263 in Georgia. Job access by car holds Statesboro’s grade up (ahead of 43% of U.S. towns); family income pulls it down ($58,829, U.S. $99,999).
37% of Statesboro’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (27% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 24.0%, against 36.0% for all residents. Unemployment (9.0%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($58,829), since student households pull the household median down ($44,737).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Statesboro could be anywhere from D to C−.
The daily trip into Statesboro
Where Statesboro clocks in
1% 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 far Statesboro goes to work
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Who commutes out of Statesboro, and who commutes in
On a workday 6,631 residents head out to work, 3,029 work right here, and 14,714 people come in from elsewhere.
About 43,000 people are in Statesboro on a workday afternoon, 23% more than live here.
1.8 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 2024, primary jobs.
In Statesboro, services account for most jobs
17,743 jobs are based in Statesboro.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Statesboro, 2014 → 2024: 16,286 → 17,743. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Statesboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 23 minutes in Statesboro
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Statesboro workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 12,484 commuters (the 12% 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.
In Statesboro, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Statesboro is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns, #32 of 263 in Georgia. Both inputs place Statesboro near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 14,228 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). 9.3% of Statesboro households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Statesboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Statesboro sits among U.S. towns of 25,000 to 48,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Milton GA | 41,266 | $171K | 4.3% | 2.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 231 | Decatur GA | 25,276 | $139K | 6.2% | 4.3% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 258 | Woodstock GA | 39,895 | $103K | 6.6% | 2.7% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,201 | Monroe LA | 46,860 | $41K | 35.9% | 10.2% | 53% | D |
| 1,202 | Alamogordo NM | 31,906 | $56K | 16.6% | 7.5% | 48% | D |
| 1,203 | Statesboro GA | 35,366 | $45K | 36.0% | 9.0% | 31% | D |
| 1,204 | Atlantic City NJ | 38,787 | $41K | 32.3% | 14.5% | 51% | D |
| 1,205 | San Luis AZ | 42,030 | $59K | 18.1% | 8.0% | 15% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 1,219 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 25% | 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 Statesboro, 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 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Students. 37% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Statesboro: questions
What is the median household income in Statesboro?
$44,737 (±$3,770) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Statesboro?
36.0% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 24.0%. Georgia: 13.4%.
How long is the commute from Statesboro?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Statesboro work?
31% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Savannah (9%, 45 mi), Pooler (3%, 38 mi), Atlanta (1%, 178 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Statesboro walkable?
Statesboro is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Statesboro without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Statesboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Statesboro
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.