Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Georgetown have higher incomes than those in 73% of U.S. towns
For 24% of workers, the job is at home (Texas 14%). The poverty rate is 8.0%, where Texas as a whole has 13.8%. Jobs and income earn Georgetown B+; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Georgetown and work: the main findings
Georgetown trades workers with the towns around it
Georgetown has about as many jobs (29,643) as working residents (31,458), but they are mostly different people: 26,370 residents leave for work each day while 24,555 people come in. Only 17% of the jobs in Georgetown are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Georgetown has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Georgetown went from 19,141 in 2013 to 29,643 in 2023, +55%. The jobs ↓
Home offices are common in Georgetown
24% of Georgetown workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Time on the road ↓
31% of Georgetown works in Austin
9,711 working residents, 31%, have their main job in Austin, 26 miles away. That’s more than work in Georgetown itself. The commute map ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The figures behind Georgetown’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Georgetown is better than 72% of U.S. towns, #184 of 642 in Texas. Job access by car holds Georgetown’s grade up (ahead of 85% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (4.9%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Georgetown could be anywhere from B to A−.
Who works in Georgetown, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 26,370 residents head out to work, 5,088 work right here, and 24,555 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 (0.94 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.
What Georgetown’s employers do
29,643 jobs are based in Georgetown.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Georgetown, 2013 → 2023: 19,141 → 29,643. 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 Georgetown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes to work from Georgetown
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Georgetown workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 28,442 commuters (the 24% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% 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.
31% of working residents work in Austin
Where Georgetown clocks in
31% of workers
9% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Georgetown
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.
Few in Georgetown walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Georgetown is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns, #384 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Georgetown 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 37,214 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 2% 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 41% 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). 3.5% of Georgetown households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Georgetown’s commuters take a bus or train.
These are town averages; neighborhoods differ.
Ranked on jobs and income, Georgetown is 148th among 402 U.S. towns of 75,000 to 144,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakeville MN | 79,270 | $139K | 2.9% | 2.0% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plymouth MN | 78,942 | $137K | 4.3% | 2.3% | 12% | A+ |
| 3 | South Jordan UT | 87,614 | $134K | 3.7% | 2.4% | 10% | A+ |
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| 9 | Flower Mound TX | 79,540 | $161K | 4.3% | 3.4% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Pearland TX | 129,930 | $119K | 4.1% | 3.3% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Allen TX | 113,447 | $131K | 6.1% | 3.7% | 11% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 146 | West Valley City UT | 137,491 | $92K | 9.9% | 4.3% | 14% | B+ |
| 147 | Frederick MD | 92,059 | $97K | 9.2% | 3.9% | 24% | B+ |
| 148 | Georgetown TX | 106,907 | $95K | 8.0% | 4.9% | 16% | B+ |
| 149 | Norwalk CA | 97,104 | $100K | 9.3% | 5.7% | 6% | B+ |
| 150 | New Rochelle NY | 85,864 | $109K | 10.1% | 5.9% | 14% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 402 | Flint MI | 79,306 | $38K | 34.1% | 14.8% | 20% | 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 Georgetown, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
Next door is work for 11% of Georgetown
The biggest share goes to Round Rock (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Georgetown workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgetown | – | B+ | C+ | 28 min | $95,062 |
| Round Rock | 9% | A− | B | 25 min | $99,287 |
| Weir | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Leander | 2% | A | B− | 29 min | $139,048 |
Same-state neighbors only. Weir: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Georgetown’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 Georgetown: questions
What is the median household income in Georgetown?
$95,062 (±$4,700) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Georgetown?
8.0%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Georgetown?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Georgetown work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Austin (31%, 26 mi), Round Rock (9%, 10 mi), Houston (3%, 151 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Georgetown walkable?
Georgetown is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Georgetown 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 Georgetown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Georgetown
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.