Statham Historic District · Photo: Gwringle · CC BY-SA 3.0Statham has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
The two grades for Statham are B for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Employers in Statham report 605 jobs, and 1,420 of its residents work somewhere. 5% of workers work from home, where Georgia as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Statham at work: what stands out
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Statham
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Statham is better than 60% of U.S. towns, #73 of 263 in Georgia. Unemployment holds Statham’s grade up (2.7%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.0%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Statham could be anywhere from C to A−.
17% of working residents work in Athens
Where Statham clocks in
4% of workers
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.
Who commutes out of Statham, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,398 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 583 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Statham on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer 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.
What Statham’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Statham, 2013 → 2023: 455 → 605. 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 Statham’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Statham
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Statham workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,621 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.
The commute from Statham, by distance
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 Statham gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Statham is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns, #85 of 263 in Georgia. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.8% 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 1,709 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). 0.5% of Statham households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Statham’s commuters take a bus or train.
Statham places 1,786th of 4,593 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 102 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 275 | Ball Ground GA | 3,470 | $118K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 357 | Chattahoochee Hills GA | 3,524 | $112K | 1.1% | 3.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,784 | Harmar Township PA | 2,998 | $65K | 14.8% | 2.6% | 7% | B |
| 1,785 | Holmes Beach FL | 3,027 | $88K | 7.7% | 5.6% | 12% | B |
| 1,786 | Statham GA | 3,350 | $74K | 13.0% | 2.7% | 2% | B |
| 1,787 | West Liberty IA | 3,717 | $69K | 11.3% | 2.0% | 27% | B |
| 1,788 | Arcanum OH | 2,327 | $60K | 10.0% | 1.0% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | 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 Statham, 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 Statham: questions
What is the median household income in Statham?
$73,903 (±$12,969) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Statham?
13.0%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Statham?
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 Statham work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Athens (17%, 14 mi), Jefferson (4%, 12 mi), Winder (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Statham walkable?
Statham is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Statham without a car?
<1% 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 Statham, from the people who make the trip.
More of Statham
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.