Most of The Rock commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in The Rock itself; outside it, Thomaston draws the most (14%, 7 miles). There are 2 jobs in The Rock, against 78 working residents. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 16% for Georgia as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of The Rock
On a workday 78 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 33 people are in The Rock on a workday afternoon, 70% 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.
The towns that employ The Rock’s residents
Where The Rock clocks in
14% of workers
5% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 100% of the jobs in The Rock
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in The Rock, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 2. 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 The Rock’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in The Rock
of The Rock workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 73 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.
Half of The Rock commutes less than 28 miles
About 27% 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 The Rock: questions
What is the poverty rate in The Rock?
12.8%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in The Rock work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Thomaston (14%, 7 mi), Barnesville (5%, 8 mi), Macon-Bibb County (4%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around The Rock 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 The Rock, from the people who make the trip.
More of The Rock
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.