Work & commute · Pretty Bayou

Work & commute in Pretty Bayou, FL

Most working residents leave Pretty Bayou for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Panama City (42%), Lynn Haven (7%) and Panama City Beach (6%). Half commute less than 4 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16 of 1,053 working residents

Typical commute

4 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 1,037 Pretty Bayou residents head out of town to work, 16 work right here, and 651 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pretty Bayou.

1,037live here, work elsewhere

16live and work here

651work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pretty Bayou goes to work

Panama City10.4 mi away

42%445

Lynn Haven4.3 mi away

7%73

Panama City Beach11 mi away

6%67

Upper Grand Lagoon3.7 mi away

6%58

Pensacola90.6 mi away

2%23

Tallahassee88 mi away

2%20

Miramar Beach40.6 mi away

2%17

Pretty Bayou (in town)right here

2%16

Destin48 mi away

1%9

Parker7.6 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%317

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

How far

How far Pretty Bayou commutes

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

67%

20%

67%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pretty Bayou is a commuter town

0.63jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Pretty Bayou are

667 jobs are based in Pretty Bayou. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pretty Bayou’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Pretty Bayou

667 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs Pretty Bayou residents hold

1,053 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−31%

Jobs based in Pretty Bayou, 2013 → 2023: 970 → 667. 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.