Table 10 (Continued) Economic Impact of Georgia’s Deepwater Ports On County-Level Employment in Georgia, Fiscal Year 2021 (full- and part-time jobs) County Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln Long Lowndes Lumpkin McDuffie McIntosh Macon Madison Marion Meriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee Newton Oconee Oglethorpe Paulding Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Employment 719 178 185 554 481 182 1,889 788 5,387 167 179 5,152 887 746 393 366 533 127 557 177 631 827 209 870 1,355 9,227 3,520 1,532 286 3,448 918 910 469 402 1,161 304 680 47 570 212 County Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen Troup Turner Twiggs Union Upson Walker Walton Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth Georgia Total Employment 10,472 3,730 120 1,003 252 2,440 844 140 1,400 114 34 1,428 183 270 241 1,888 2,072 1,313 376 145 5,079 252 272 791 692 1,691 2,679 1,508 173 3,095 2,663 122 68 956 7,670 173 290 375 410 561,090 Note: The allocation of port users’ jobs to the counties is partially based on the location of the company on the bill of lading and is not necessarily the origin/destination of the cargo. Source: Estimated by the Selig Center for Economic Growth, Terry College of Business, The University of Georgia (www.selig.uga.edu), 2022. 18
