Work & commute · Ashburn

Work & commute in Ashburn, GA

Most working residents leave Ashburn for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Tifton (10%), Cordele (6%) and Albany (4%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

210 of 1,249 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,039 Ashburn residents head out of town to work, 210 work right here, and 727 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Ashburn.

1,039live here, work elsewhere

210live and work here

727work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Ashburn goes to work

Ashburn (in town)right here

17%210

Tifton18.8 mi away

10%125

Cordele18.4 mi away

6%69

Albany32.1 mi away

4%52

Valdosta63.3 mi away

3%33

Moultrie37.5 mi away

2%31

Fitzgerald23.5 mi away

2%25

Sylvester16.4 mi away

2%22

Douglas49 mi away

1%15

Vienna27.6 mi away

1%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%653

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Ashburn commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

24%

29%

16%

31%

24%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Ashburn is balanced between jobs and homes

0.75jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.75 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Ashburn are

937 jobs are based in Ashburn. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ashburn’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Ashburn

937 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities30%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Ashburn residents hold

1,249 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month37%

−37%

Jobs based in Ashburn, 2013 → 2023: 1,479 → 937. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.