Solomon and Penelopy Pace House · Photo: Jud McCranie · CC BY-SA 4.0Vinings has 4.3 jobs for every working resident: 27,626 people commute in to work
27,914 jobs are based in Vinings for 6,436 working residents. Vinings grades A for jobs and income and A for walkability. 32% of workers work from 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
What sets Vinings apart on work
Vinings fills up on a workday
Vinings has 27,914 jobs, 4.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 36,000 people are in town, more than double the 14,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Vinings draws workers from far and wide
The 27,914 jobs in Vinings are filled from a wide area. The ten biggest home towns of its workers supply 24%; the other 75% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Vinings
32% of Vinings workers work from home, against 16% across Georgia. Time on the road ↓
Vinings has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Vinings went from 15,900 in 2013 to 27,914 in 2023, +76%. The jobs ↓
29% of Vinings works in Atlanta
1,862 working residents, 29%, have their main job in Atlanta, 7.3 miles away across the town line. That’s 7 times as many as work in Vinings itself. The commute map ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Income, poverty and work: Vinings’ grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Vinings is better than 93% of U.S. towns, #10 of 263 in Georgia. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 96% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (6.2%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Vinings could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Who works in Vinings, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 6,148 residents head out to work and 288 work right here.
About 36,000 people are in Vinings on a workday afternoon, 149% more 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 daily trip into Vinings
Where Vinings clocks in
29% of workers
7% 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.
Commuting from Vinings: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vinings workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,599 commuters (the 32% 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 Vinings, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vinings, 2013 → 2023: 15,900 → 27,914. 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 Vinings’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Vinings works
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.
Vinings is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.5% 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 9,641 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 52% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 4% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 13.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 96% 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). 1.9% of Vinings households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Vinings’ commuters take a bus or train.
Vinings next to U.S. towns of 10,000 to 19,000: 292nd of 2,227 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 290 | New Hyde Park NY | 10,226 | $143K | 3.6% | 4.9% | 3% | A |
| 291 | Verona Township NJ | 15,107 | $162K | 5.3% | 4.3% | 6% | A |
| 292 | Vinings GA | 14,390 | $95K | 6.2% | 2.2% | 4% | A |
| 293 | Chalco NE | 10,595 | $86K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 3% | A |
| 294 | Ripon CA | 16,140 | $133K | 5.4% | 2.7% | 11% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 359 | Flowery Branch GA | 13,110 | $104K | 6.1% | 2.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 397 | North Druid Hills GA | 17,997 | $103K | 11.1% | 1.5% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 487 | Jefferson GA | 17,185 | $110K | 5.6% | 2.6% | 15% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,227 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Vinings, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Work next door: 29% of Vinings’ workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Atlanta. Darker towns draw more of Vinings’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Vinings: questions
What is the median household income in Vinings?
$94,982 (±$7,522) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vinings?
6.2%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vinings?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 32% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vinings work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Atlanta (29%, 7 mi), Sandy Springs (7%, 8 mi), Marietta (3%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Vinings walkable?
Vinings is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.9 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vinings without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 4% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vinings, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vinings
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.