Savannah has 0.6 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
At home: 6% of workers have no commute at all (New York 15%). There are 315 jobs in Savannah for 563 working residents. Savannah grades C+ 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
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Savannah
On income, poverty and job access, Savannah is better than 36% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Savannah’s grade up (6.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.6%) is left out: Savannah’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, Savannah could be anywhere from C− to B−.
How many people are in Savannah by day
On a workday 543 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 295 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Savannah on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer 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.
12% of working residents work in Arcadia
Where Savannah clocks in
6% 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.
67% of the jobs in Savannah pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Savannah, 2013 → 2023: 147 → 315. 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 Savannah’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 31 minutes from Savannah
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Savannah workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 536 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where in the region Savannah works
About 15% 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.
In Savannah, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Savannah is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 568 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.1% of Savannah households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Savannah’s commuters take a bus or train.
Savannah is 3,178th of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 5 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,176 | Wanamingo MN | 1,111 | $72K | 13.4% | 2.0% | 5% | C+ |
| 3,177 | Avis PA | 1,461 | $61K | 9.2% | 7.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 3,178 | Savannah NY | 1,607 | $63K | 6.1% | 6.6% | 4% | C+ |
| 3,179 | Stonycreek Township PA | 2,081 | $73K | 8.2% | 4.8% | 6% | C+ |
| 3,180 | Channel Lake IL | 2,052 | $68K | 23.1% | 5.3% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Savannah, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work in the towns next to Savannah
The biggest share goes to Galen (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Savannah workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savannah | – | C+ | C+ | 31 min | $62,604 |
| Montezuma | under 2% | B− | D− | 23 min | $73,250 |
| Conquest | under 2% | C | D | 26 min | $81,620 |
| Butler | under 2% | D | C | 23 min | $50,192 |
| Galen | 9% | C− | C+ | 22 min | $64,177 |
| Tyre | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Tyre: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Savannah’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 Savannah: questions
What is the median household income in Savannah?
$62,604 (±$9,472) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Savannah?
6.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Savannah?
31 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Savannah work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Arcadia (12%, 17 mi), Galen (9%, 6 mi), Lyons (6%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Savannah walkable?
Savannah is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Savannah without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Savannah, from the people who make the trip.
More of Savannah
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.