Work & commute · St. Augustine Beach

Work & commute in St. Augustine Beach, FL

Most working residents leave St. Augustine Beach for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are St. Augustine (19%), Jacksonville (18%) and Tampa (1%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

260 of 2,634 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 2,374 St. Augustine Beach residents head out of town to work, 260 work right here, and 2,580 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Augustine Beach.

2,374live here, work elsewhere

260live and work here

2,580work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Augustine Beach goes to work

St. Augustine4.5 mi away

19%490

Jacksonville41.4 mi away

18%478

St. Augustine Beach (in town)right here

10%260

Tampa148.5 mi away

1%36

Palm Coast21.1 mi away

1%34

Butler Beach3 mi away

1%34

Orlando94.7 mi away

1%33

Palm Valley26.1 mi away

1%27

St. Augustine South2.7 mi away

1%26

Palatka27.4 mi away

1%25

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%1,191

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

How far

How far St. Augustine Beach commutes

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

45%

25%

24%

45%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Augustine Beach is balanced between jobs and homes

1.08jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.08 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Augustine Beach are

2,840 jobs are based in St. Augustine Beach. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Augustine Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Augustine Beach

2,840 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)84%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs St. Augustine Beach residents hold

2,634 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+38%

Jobs based in St. Augustine Beach, 2013 → 2023: 2,053 → 2,840. 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.