Work & commute · Safety Harbor

Work & commute in Safety Harbor, FL

Most working residents leave Safety Harbor for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Tampa (13%), Clearwater (12%) and Largo (9%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

629 of 7,237 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

27%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,608 Safety Harbor residents head out of town to work, 629 work right here, and 7,696 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Safety Harbor.

6,608live here, work elsewhere

629live and work here

7,696work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Safety Harbor goes to work

Tampa13.9 mi away

13%938

Clearwater4.9 mi away

12%833

Largo8.3 mi away

9%636

Safety Harbor (in town)right here

9%629

St. Petersburg17.1 mi away

7%520

Pinellas Park10.2 mi away

4%310

Town 'n' Country7.4 mi away

3%193

Palm Harbor6.5 mi away

2%174

Dunedin6.3 mi away

2%160

Oldsmar3.3 mi away

2%151

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%2,693

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

How far

How far Safety Harbor commutes

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

51%

29%

15%

51%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Safety Harbor is balanced between jobs and homes

1.15jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.15 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Safety Harbor are

8,325 jobs are based in Safety Harbor. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Safety Harbor’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Safety Harbor

8,325 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Safety Harbor residents hold

7,237 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+3%

Jobs based in Safety Harbor, 2013 → 2023: 8,106 → 8,325. 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.