Winterville Historic District · Photo: Hhoschton · CC BY-SA 3.0At 0.9%, unemployment in Winterville is lower than in 95% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Winterville are A for jobs and income and C for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 84% of U.S. towns. Poverty touches 3.2% of residents, next to 13.4% for Georgia as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Winterville in brief
Nearly half of Winterville works in Athens
245 working residents, 49%, have their main job in Athens, 5 miles away across the town line. That’s 49 times as many as work in Winterville itself. The commute map ↓
Winterville has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Winterville went from 369 in 2013 to 564 in 2023, +53%. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
34% of the jobs based in Winterville are held by workers 29 or younger, against 23% of Winterville’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
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 502 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The four measures behind Winterville’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Winterville is better than 94% of U.S. towns. Unemployment is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 60% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Winterville could be anywhere from A− to A+.
49% of working residents work in Athens
Where Winterville clocks in
3% of workers
2% 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.
Most jobs in Winterville are in services
564 jobs are based in Winterville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winterville, 2013 → 2023: 369 → 564. 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 Winterville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Winterville by day
On a workday 497 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 559 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 (1.12 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.
How long Winterville spends getting to work: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winterville workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 911 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.
How far Winterville’s workers travel
About 23% 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.
Winterville is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Winterville is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.3% 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 1,010 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). 1.7% of Winterville households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Winterville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Winterville is 130th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 128 | Spencerville MD | 1,028 | $190K | 8.7% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| 129 | Roslyn Harbor NY | 1,113 | $250K | 9.9% | 7.0% | <1% | A |
| 130 | Winterville GA | 1,203 | $111K | 3.2% | 0.9% | 1% | A |
| 131 | Trabuco Canyon CA | 1,326 | $229K | 7.2% | 0.6% | 2% | A |
| 132 | Port Republic NJ | 1,125 | $123K | 1.3% | 9.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 256 | Cataula GA | 1,522 | $124K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 258 | Clermont GA | 1,165 | $136K | 4.7% | 3.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 600 | Robins AFB GA | 1,193 | $107K | 5.9% | 9.9% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Winterville, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
Winterville and its neighbors: 49% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Winterville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winterville | – | A | C | 24 min | $110,804 |
| Athens | 49% | C+ | A− | 21 min | $53,625 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Athens. Darker towns draw more of Winterville’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 Winterville: questions
What is the median household income in Winterville?
$110,804 (±$23,705) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winterville?
3.2%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winterville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winterville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Athens (49%, 5 mi), Atlanta (3%, 67 mi), Gainesville (2%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winterville walkable?
Winterville is more walkable than 35% 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 Winterville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winterville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winterville
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.