Work & commute · St. Pete Beach

Work & commute in St. Pete Beach, FL

Most working residents leave St. Pete Beach for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are St. Petersburg (19%), Tampa (11%) and Largo (5%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

457 of 3,314 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

31%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,857 St. Pete Beach residents head out of town to work, 457 work right here, and 4,294 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Pete Beach.

2,857live here, work elsewhere

457live and work here

4,294work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Pete Beach goes to work

St. Petersburg6.6 mi away

19%620

St. Pete Beach (in town)right here

14%457

Tampa23.7 mi away

11%356

Largo13.4 mi away

5%174

Clearwater18.2 mi away

4%133

Pinellas Park10 mi away

4%117

Treasure Island3.7 mi away

1%48

Lealman7.9 mi away

1%39

South Pasadena2.5 mi away

1%37

Jacksonville192.3 mi away

1%37

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%1,296

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

How far

How far St. Pete Beach commutes

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

38%

31%

11%

20%

38%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Pete Beach is balanced between jobs and homes

1.43jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.43 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Pete Beach are

4,751 jobs are based in St. Pete Beach. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Pete Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Pete Beach

4,751 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)88%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs St. Pete Beach residents hold

3,314 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month63%

−4%

Jobs based in St. Pete Beach, 2013 → 2023: 4,930 → 4,751. 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.