Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0Warner Robins has higher unemployment (6.4%) than 78% of U.S. towns
About one in four work in Warner Robins itself; outside it, Macon-Bibb County draws the most (19%, 15 miles). Jobs and income earn Warner Robins C; getting around on foot earns it C+. Working from home is the commute for 10% of workers; Georgia has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Warner Robins: the figures worth knowing
Warner Robins trades workers with the towns around it
Warner Robins has about as many jobs (28,644) as working residents (28,054), but they are mostly different people: 20,393 residents leave for work each day while 20,983 people come in. Only 27% of the jobs in Warner Robins are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Warner Robins works one town over
26% of working residents work in a town that borders Warner Robins: Macon-Bibb County (19%), Perry (4%) and Centerville (1%). Next door ↓
Commutes from Warner Robins are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 46 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Inside Warner Robins’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Warner Robins is better than 29% of U.S. towns, #158 of 263 in Georgia. Job access by car holds Warner Robins’ grade up (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Warner Robins could be anywhere from C− to C+.
In and out of Warner Robins on a workday
On a workday 20,393 residents head out to work, 7,661 work right here, and 20,983 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.02 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting from Warner Robins: about 22 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Warner Robins workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 33,722 commuters (the 10% 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.
Where Warner Robins’ working residents head each day
Where Warner Robins clocks in
19% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Warner Robins: what the 28,644 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warner Robins, 2013 → 2023: 24,656 → 28,644. 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 Warner Robins’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Warner Robins 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 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 Warner Robins gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Warner Robins is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #204 of 263 in Georgia. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below 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 37,299 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). 5.7% of Warner Robins households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Warner Robins’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Warner Robins is 456th of 520 U.S. towns of 61,000 to 118,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakeville MN | 79,270 | $139K | 2.9% | 2.0% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Fulshear TX | 64,630 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Plymouth MN | 78,942 | $137K | 4.3% | 2.3% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Johns Creek GA | 80,401 | $160K | 4.2% | 4.1% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Roswell GA | 91,505 | $129K | 7.5% | 3.8% | 11% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 90 | Alpharetta GA | 66,921 | $148K | 5.6% | 4.9% | 18% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 454 | Baytown TX | 86,561 | $60K | 18.2% | 10.2% | 18% | C |
| 455 | North Little Rock AR | 65,120 | $53K | 20.3% | 5.9% | 22% | C |
| 456 | Warner Robins GA | 87,761 | $67K | 14.2% | 6.4% | 27% | C |
| 457 | Hamilton OH | 64,644 | $55K | 19.6% | 5.9% | 16% | C |
| 458 | St. Cloud MN | 72,647 | $61K | 20.2% | 6.0% | 44% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 520 | Albany GA | 66,907 | $47K | 27.5% | 11.2% | 51% | 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 Warner Robins, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Bordering towns draw 26% of Warner Robins’ workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Warner Robins workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warner Robins | – | C | C+ | 22 min | $66,970 |
| Centerville | 1% | C | C | 25 min | $68,922 |
| Macon-Bibb County | 19% | D | B | 22 min | $51,234 |
| Byron | 1% | C+ | C− | 22 min | $85,596 |
| Perry | 4% | C+ | B | 22 min | $76,909 |
| Robins AFB | 1% | B+ | B− | 10 min | $106,667 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Macon-Bibb County. Darker towns draw more of Warner Robins’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 Warner Robins: questions
What is the median household income in Warner Robins?
$66,970 (±$3,379) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Warner Robins?
14.2%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Warner Robins?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Warner Robins work?
27% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Macon-Bibb County (19%, 15 mi), Perry (4%, 10 mi), Atlanta (3%, 92 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Warner Robins walkable?
Warner Robins is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Warner Robins without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Warner Robins, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warner Robins
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.