Photo: Jack Delano · Public domainHow White Plains works: jobs, income and commuting
Working residents average 28 minutes each way, about the same as across Georgia. Home is the office for 3% of workers, where Georgia as a whole has 16%. Only 7% work in White Plains itself; outside it, Greensboro draws the most (12%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through White Plains
On a workday 96 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 116 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 (1.19 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.
Where White Plains’ working residents head each day
Where White Plains clocks in
12% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 93% of the jobs in White Plains
123 jobs are based in White Plains.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in White Plains, 2013 → 2023: 51 → 123. 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 White Plains’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From White Plains, about 28 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of White Plains workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 85 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.
Short hops and long hauls from White Plains
About 40% 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 White Plains: questions
What is the median household income in White Plains?
$61,250 (±$17,875) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in White Plains?
13.1%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from White Plains?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in White Plains work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greensboro (12%, 10 mi), Athens (8%, 38 mi), Madison (3%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around White Plains without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from White Plains, from the people who make the trip.
More of White Plains
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.