Work & commute · St. Marys

Work & commute in St. Marys, GA

Most working residents leave St. Marys for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Kingsland (16%), Jacksonville (6%) and Brunswick (4%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

939 of 5,623 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,684 St. Marys residents head out of town to work, 939 work right here, and 2,936 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Marys.

4,684live here, work elsewhere

939live and work here

2,936work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Marys goes to work

St. Marys (in town)right here

17%939

Kingsland14 mi away

16%927

Jacksonville, FL29.5 mi away

6%343

Brunswick27 mi away

4%237

Kings Bay Base3.1 mi away

4%203

Savannah89.7 mi away

3%161

Fernandina Beach, FL10.3 mi away

2%122

Atlanta266 mi away

2%116

Yulee, FL8.4 mi away

2%112

Woodbine16.3 mi away

1%75

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%2,388

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

How far

How far St. Marys commutes

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

45%

16%

33%

45%Under 10 mi

5%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Marys is a commuter town

0.69jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.69 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Marys are

3,875 jobs are based in St. Marys. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Marys’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Marys

3,875 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs St. Marys residents hold

5,623 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month49%

−17%

Jobs based in St. Marys, 2013 → 2023: 4,675 → 3,875. 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.