Work & commute · Fort Gaines

Work & commute in Fort Gaines, GA

Most working residents leave Fort Gaines for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Bakerhill (9%), Dothan (7%) and Albany (6%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

32 of 329 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 297 Fort Gaines residents head out of town to work, 32 work right here, and 254 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fort Gaines.

297live here, work elsewhere

32live and work here

254work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fort Gaines goes to work

Fort Gaines (in town)right here

10%32

Bakerhill, AL17.6 mi away

9%28

Dothan, AL34.4 mi away

7%24

Albany51.6 mi away

6%19

Eufaula, AL21 mi away

5%17

Cuthbert18.1 mi away

5%17

Bluffton13.1 mi away

5%16

Blakely18.7 mi away

4%14

Abbeville, AL13 mi away

2%8

Tallahassee, FL94 mi away

2%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%146

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

How far

How far Fort Gaines commutes

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

11%

40%

14%

35%

11%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

35%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fort Gaines is balanced between jobs and homes

0.87jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.87 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Fort Gaines are

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

Jobs based in Fort Gaines

286 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs Fort Gaines residents hold

329 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month37%

−37%

Jobs based in Fort Gaines, 2013 → 2023: 453 → 286. 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.