Work & commute · Port St. Joe

Work & commute in Port St. Joe, FL

About one in 3 of Port St. Joe’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Panama City (8%), Tallahassee (6%) and Mexico Beach (4%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

33%

420 of 1,257 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 837 Port St. Joe residents head out of town to work, 420 work right here, and 1,835 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Port St. Joe.

837live here, work elsewhere

420live and work here

1,835work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Port St. Joe goes to work

Port St. Joe (in town)right here

33%420

Panama City32 mi away

8%96

Tallahassee76.9 mi away

6%81

Mexico Beach10.6 mi away

4%45

Jacksonville221 mi away

2%29

Apalachicola19.9 mi away

2%19

Panama City Beach44.5 mi away

1%18

Lynn Haven34.8 mi away

1%16

Wewahitchka22.5 mi away

1%13

Tampa213.8 mi away

1%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%509

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

How far

How far Port St. Joe commutes

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

43%

16%

33%

43%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Port St. Joe is a job hub

1.79jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Port St. Joe are

2,255 jobs are based in Port St. Joe. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Port St. Joe’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Port St. Joe

2,255 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Port St. Joe residents hold

1,257 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+18%

Jobs based in Port St. Joe, 2013 → 2023: 1,915 → 2,255. 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.