Photo: Daniel Mayer · CC BY-SA 3.0Stone Mountain’s household incomes are lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
16.6% of residents are in poverty; Georgia has 13.4%. Jobs and income earn Stone Mountain C; getting around on foot earns it A. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 6.5 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 22.2 in Atlanta.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Stone Mountain, in a few figures
The four measures behind Stone Mountain’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Stone Mountain is better than 29% of U.S. towns, #154 of 263 in Georgia. Job access by car holds Stone Mountain’s grade up (ahead of 94% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($46,973, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Stone Mountain could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Who works in Stone Mountain, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 2,679 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 566 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,400 people are in Stone Mountain on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
0.22 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
19% of working residents work in Atlanta
Where Stone Mountain clocks in
19% of workers
5% of workers
3% 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.
In Stone Mountain, services account for most jobs
581 jobs are based in Stone Mountain.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stone Mountain, 2013 → 2023: 603 → 581. 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 Stone Mountain’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way for Stone Mountain’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stone Mountain workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,910 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.
The distance from Stone Mountain to work
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.
Stone Mountain is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Stone Mountain is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns, #31 of 263 in Georgia. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, above 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 3,122 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 90% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, <1% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 6.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 88% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 8.2% of Stone Mountain households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Stone Mountain’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 4,600 to 8,900, Stone Mountain ranks 2,465th of 3,283 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 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Tyrone GA | 8,091 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 60 | Grayson GA | 5,569 | $131K | 3.5% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 142 | Senoia GA | 6,276 | $125K | 1.1% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,463 | Seneca Falls NY | 8,845 | $62K | 15.9% | 4.4% | 21% | C |
| 2,464 | Boulder Creek CA | 4,632 | $84K | 7.1% | 12.1% | 6% | C |
| 2,465 | Stone Mountain GA | 6,562 | $47K | 16.6% | 7.0% | 1% | C |
| 2,466 | Rittman OH | 6,120 | $60K | 14.0% | 8.2% | 11% | C |
| 2,467 | Emporia VA | 5,447 | $52K | 15.8% | 2.9% | 26% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,283 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Stone Mountain, 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 Stone Mountain: questions
What is the median household income in Stone Mountain?
$46,973 (±$10,549) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stone Mountain?
16.6%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stone Mountain?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stone Mountain work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Atlanta (19%, 15 mi), Tucker (5%, 3 mi), Sandy Springs (3%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Stone Mountain walkable?
Stone Mountain is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 11.4 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stone Mountain without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. <1% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stone Mountain, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stone Mountain
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.