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Work & commute in Penney Farms · A commuter town

100% of Penney Farms’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Penney Farms for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Jacksonville (31%), Green Cove Springs (10%) and Lakeside (5%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Work in town
0%
1 of 267 working residents
Typical commute
23 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Work from home
7%
Less than FL (16%)
Jobs based here
24
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Penney Farms?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

31% of working residents work in Jacksonville

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Penney FarmsTreasure IslandStarke: 3 residents work here (1%)Green Cove Springs: 26 residents work here (10%)Palatka: 4 residents work here (1%)Jacksonville: 84 residents work here (31%)OcalaTallahassee: 3 residents work here (1%)Gainesville: 7 residents work here (3%)Orlando: 4 residents work here (1%)Lakeside: 13 residents work here (5%)Palm ValleyManatee RoadAsbury LakeFleming Island: 11 residents work here (4%)Middleburg: 4 residents work here (1%)JacksonvilleGreen Cove SpringsLakesideFleming IslandGainesvillePalatkaPenney Farms
1
Jacksonville26.1 mi away
31%84
210%26
3
Lakeside11 mi away
5%13
4
Fleming Island10.2 mi away
4%11
5
Gainesville38.3 mi away
3%7
6
Palatka24.3 mi away
1%4
7
Orlando108.3 mi away
1%4
8
Middleburg7.2 mi away
1%4
9
Starke18.2 mi away
1%3
10
Tallahassee149.4 mi away
1%3
Everywhere elseother towns and states
40%108
The top trips

Where Penney Farms clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Day and night

Penney Farms quiets down on a workday

On a workday 266 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 23 people come in from elsewhere.

266live here, work elsewhere
1live and work here
23work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night640
Workday400
640live here− 270head out to work+ 23come in to work= 400on a workday

About 400 people are in Penney Farms on a workday afternoon, 38% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.09jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Penney Farms commutes less than 23 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miJacksonville: 31% · 26.1 miGreen Cove Springs: 10% · 7.8 miLakeside: 5% · 11 miFleming Island: 4% · 10.2 miGainesville: 3% · 38.3 miPalatka: 1% · 24.3 miOrlando: 1% · 108.3 miMiddleburg: 1% · 7.2 miStarke: 1% · 18.2 miTallahassee: 1% · 149.4 miJacksonville 31%Green Cove Springs 10%Lakeside 5%Fleming Island 4%Gainesville 3%Penney Farms
Penney FarmsTop destinations (size = commuters)
24%Under 10 mi64 residents
36%10–24 mi95 residents
16%25–50 mi43 residents
24%Over 50 mi64 residents

About 24% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

79% of the jobs in Penney Farms pay over $3,333 a month

24 jobs are based in Penney Farms. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Penney Farms’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Penney FarmsJobs Penney Farms residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms21%21%
Trade, transport & utilities0%18%
Services: health, schools, offices79%61%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less4%17%
$1,251–$3,333 a month17%34%
Over $3,333 a month79%49%

Who does it

29 or younger21%24%
30 to 5463%49%
55 and older17%27%
−87%

Jobs based in Penney Farms, 2013 → 2023: 185 → 24. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

Time on the road

Working from home in Penney Farms

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

Working from home
7%

of Penney Farms workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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