Grice Inn · Photo: Jud McCranie · CC BY-SA 4.0Wrightsville’s household incomes are lower than in 98% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income D−: better than 50% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability D: more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns · #259 of 263 in Georgia.
Working residents average 23 minutes each way (Georgia 28, U.S. 26). About one in five work in Wrightsville; the top destination outside it is Dublin (9%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Wrightsville, in brief
Wrightsville trades workers with the towns around it
Wrightsville has about as many jobs (1,008) as working residents (1,094), but they are mostly different people: 906 residents leave for work each day while 820 people come in. Only 19% of the jobs in Wrightsville are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
44% 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 ↓
Few Wrightsville workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Georgia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Fewer than half of Wrightsville workers earn over $40,000 a year
43% of Wrightsville’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 19% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Wrightsville are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 28 across Georgia. That’s about 38 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.
What’s behind Wrightsville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Wrightsville is better than 50% of U.S. towns, #262 of 263 in Georgia. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Wrightsville’s grade.
Unemployment (9.9%) is left out: Wrightsville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Wrightsville stays D−.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 906 residents head out to work, 188 work right here, and 820 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 (0.92 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.
Half of Wrightsville commutes less than 40 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 44% 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.
About 23 minutes each way, quicker than most of Georgia
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wrightsville workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 648 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.
What the 1,008 jobs in Wrightsville are
1,008 jobs are based in Wrightsville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Wrightsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wrightsville, 2013 → 2023: 1,291 → 1,008. 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.
9% of working residents work in Dublin
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Wrightsville clocks in
9% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Most trips from Wrightsville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wrightsville is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns, #259 of 263 in Georgia. Both inputs place Wrightsville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 665 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). 11.1% of Wrightsville households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wrightsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Wrightsville compares with U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,800
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Wrightsville, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Avondale Estates GA | 3,543 | $124K | 6.3% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 281 | Ball Ground GA | 3,470 | $118K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 359 | Chattahoochee Hills GA | 3,524 | $112K | 1.1% | 3.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,334 | Livingston AL | 3,242 | $24K | 27.8% | 20.6% | 33% | D− |
| 4,335 | Rocky Ford CO | 3,752 | $41K | 31.7% | 11.5% | 17% | D− |
| 4,336 | Wrightsville GA | 3,585 | $35K | 39.7% | 9.9% | 17% | D− |
| 4,337 | Hawaiian Ocean View HI | 4,431 | $45K | 25.4% | 17.2% | 4% | D− |
| 4,338 | Marianna AR | 3,253 | $20K | 56.8% | 28.9% | 31% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,355 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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.
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 Wrightsville: questions
What is the median household income in Wrightsville?
$34,631 (±$2,760) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wrightsville?
39.7%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wrightsville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wrightsville work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dublin (9%, 18 mi), Sandersville (5%, 18 mi), Atlanta (3%, 122 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wrightsville walkable?
Wrightsville is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wrightsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wrightsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wrightsville
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.