Work & commute · Sugar Hill

Work & commute in Sugar Hill, GA

Most working residents leave Sugar Hill for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Atlanta (7%), Alpharetta (6%) and Buford (5%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

428 of 11,937 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

24%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 11,509 Sugar Hill residents head out of town to work, 428 work right here, and 6,098 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sugar Hill.

11,509live here, work elsewhere

428live and work here

6,098work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sugar Hill goes to work

Atlanta31.6 mi away

7%866

Alpharetta13.7 mi away

6%775

Buford3.3 mi away

5%581

Suwanee3.2 mi away

4%478

Sandy Springs22 mi away

4%446

Sugar Hill (in town)right here

4%428

Lawrenceville9.7 mi away

3%376

Gainesville18.2 mi away

2%296

Peachtree Corners14.1 mi away

2%290

Duluth9 mi away

2%247

Everywhere elseother towns and states

60%7,154

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

How far

How far Sugar Hill commutes

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

32%

44%

19%

32%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sugar Hill is a commuter town

0.55jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sugar Hill are

6,526 jobs are based in Sugar Hill. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sugar Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sugar Hill

6,526 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Sugar Hill residents hold

11,937 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month65%

+77%

Jobs based in Sugar Hill, 2013 → 2023: 3,692 → 6,526. 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.