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JACKSON N. GA POPULATION Industry Employment
COUNTY Mountains 29 MADISON Athens Area 384,703 Clarke County Area includes Clarke, Barrow,
Jackson, Madison, Oconee, and Oglethorpe
80 Miles 8 COUNTY
441 72 Athens Athens-Clarke County ..... 127,315 Goods Producing: 11.9%
Neighborhoods Service Providing: 62.5% Source: Georgia Area Labor
129 Baxter Barrow County ................86,658 Government: 25.1% Profile Athens-Clarke Metropolitan
Statistical Area Jan. 2023
BARROW 15 Boulevard Jackson County ...............80,286
COUNTY LOOP 29 G reenway Cobbham Madison County ..............30,885 Business & Industry
10 Winterville Industrial Parks ..............................3
29 Downtown Oconee County ................43,023 Clarke County Labor Force .....59,167
East Side Oglethorpe County ........... 15,140
Five Points Town of Bogart. ................. 1,326 Metro Labor Force ..............100,078
316 LOOP 10 (Clarke, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe counties)
LOOP
10
Athens 10 78 Forest Heights City of Winterville .............. 1,849 Unemployment Rate ...............3.8%
78 Normal Town
LOOP CLARKE Source: U.S. Census Bureau Estimates July 2021 Ga. Dept. of Labor, Jan. 2023
10 10 North Athens
Atlanta 441 COUNTY Augusta
8
West Side
65 Miles
WALTON
COUNTY 15 Savannah 101 Miles
Beaches
230 Miles OCONEE OGLETHORPE
COUNTY
129
COUNTY
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