Webster County Jails · Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Webster County has lower household incomes than 91% of U.S. towns
For 3% of workers, the job is at home, where Georgia as a whole has 16%. The poverty rate is 22.3% (Georgia 13.4%). Webster County grades D for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Webster County stands out on work
Webster County makes and builds things
60% of the jobs based in Webster County are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Webster County residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Webster County pay better than its residents’ jobs
67% of the jobs based in Webster County pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 45% of the jobs Webster County residents hold. 72% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Webster County. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; with 921 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Webster County’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Webster County is better than 9% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Webster County’s grade up (4.2%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Webster County could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Goods, not services: 60% of the jobs in Webster County
481 jobs are based in Webster County.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Webster County, 2013 → 2023: 490 → 481. 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 Webster County’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Webster County to work
About 31% 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.
Webster County by day and by night
On a workday 786 residents head out to work, 135 work right here, and 346 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Webster County on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.52 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.
9% of working residents work in Americus
Where Webster County clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
About 34 minutes each way for Webster County’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Webster County workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,063 commuters (the 3% 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.
Few in Webster County walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Webster County is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Georgia, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,099 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). 7.7% of Webster County households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Webster County’s commuters take a bus or train.
Webster County places 4,370th of 4,995 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 14 | Berkeley Lake GA | 2,034 | $166K | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 118 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 202 | Isle of Hope GA | 2,053 | $105K | 1.4% | 1.3% | 5% | A |
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| 4,368 | Amity NY | 2,123 | $61K | 22.9% | 6.5% | 15% | D |
| 4,369 | Rome Township PA | 1,962 | $59K | 15.2% | 3.9% | 3% | D |
| 4,370 | Webster County GA | 2,369 | $47K | 22.3% | 4.2% | 15% | D |
| 4,371 | Shelby MI | 2,185 | $50K | 20.0% | 6.6% | 6% | D |
| 4,372 | Hudson MI | 2,347 | $53K | 17.8% | 7.9% | 16% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Webster County, 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 Webster County: questions
What is the median household income in Webster County?
$46,792 (±$11,399) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Webster County?
22.3%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Webster County?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Webster County work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Americus (9%, 20 mi), Columbus (8%, 37 mi), Richland (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Webster County walkable?
Webster County is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Webster County without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Webster County, from the people who make the trip.
More of Webster County
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.