Work & commute · St. Simons

Work & commute in St. Simons, GA

About one in 3 of St. Simons’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Brunswick (20%), Dock Junction (4%) and Jacksonville (3%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

30%

1,454 of 4,860 working residents

Typical commute

7 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,406 St. Simons residents head out of town to work, 1,454 work right here, and 4,286 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Simons.

3,406live here, work elsewhere

1,454live and work here

4,286work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Simons goes to work

St. Simons (in town)right here

30%1,454

Brunswick5.7 mi away

20%949

Dock Junction7.8 mi away

4%192

Jacksonville, FL60.6 mi away

3%139

Savannah58.6 mi away

3%126

Atlanta251.4 mi away

2%98

Waycross57.5 mi away

1%38

Pooler64.4 mi away

1%35

Jekyll Island8.3 mi away

1%28

St. Marys31.4 mi away

1%27

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%1,774

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

How far

How far St. Simons commutes

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

63%

31%

63%Under 10 mi

2%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Simons is balanced between jobs and homes

1.18jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.18 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Simons are

5,740 jobs are based in St. Simons. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Simons’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Simons

5,740 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs St. Simons residents hold

4,860 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+23%

Jobs based in St. Simons, 2013 → 2023: 4,670 → 5,740. 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.