Photo: Myotus · CC BY 4.0Zebulon has 2.7 jobs for every working resident: 1,414 people commute in to work
Zebulon has 1,454 jobs for 535 working residents. The two grades for Zebulon are D for jobs and income and C for walkability. Measured by household income, Zebulon is behind 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Zebulon: the figures worth knowing
Zebulon is where the jobs are
Zebulon has 1,454 jobs, 2.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,300 people are in town, 68% more than the 1,400 who live here. Day and night ↓
Zebulon has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Zebulon went from 744 in 2013 to 1,454 in 2023, +95%. 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 535 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Jobs & income in Zebulon: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Zebulon is better than 12% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Zebulon’s grade up (ahead of 44% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (24.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (11.0%) is left out: Zebulon’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Zebulon could be anywhere from D to C.
How a workday changes Zebulon
On a workday 495 residents head out to work and 40 work right here.
About 2,300 people are in Zebulon on a workday afternoon, 68% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What Zebulon’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Zebulon, 2013 → 2023: 744 → 1,454. 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 Zebulon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Zebulon
Where Zebulon clocks in
13% 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.
The trip to work from Zebulon: about 25 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 Zebulon workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 560 commuters (the 11% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Zebulon
About 25% 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.
For most of Zebulon, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Zebulon is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 628 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). 6.4% of Zebulon households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Zebulon’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,311th of 5,400: where Zebulon ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 162 | Winterville GA | 1,203 | $111K | 3.2% | 0.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 332 | Cataula GA | 1,522 | $124K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 335 | Clermont GA | 1,165 | $136K | 4.7% | 3.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,309 | Bouse AZ | 1,203 | $48K | 8.9% | 4.5% | 1% | D |
| 4,310 | Carlsborg WA | 1,231 | $51K | 13.6% | 0.8% | 6% | D |
| 4,311 | Zebulon GA | 1,358 | $50K | 24.3% | 11.0% | 7% | D |
| 4,312 | Granite OK | 1,609 | $60K | 12.7% | 5.0% | 12% | D |
| 4,313 | Rosebud TX | 1,344 | $45K | 17.0% | 0.0% | 5% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Zebulon, 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 Zebulon: questions
What is the median household income in Zebulon?
$49,706 (±$10,234) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Zebulon?
24.3%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Zebulon?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Zebulon work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Griffin (13%, 11 mi), Atlanta (4%, 47 mi), Macon-Bibb County (3%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Zebulon walkable?
Zebulon is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Zebulon without a car?
0% 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 Zebulon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Zebulon
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.