Work & commute · Tarpon Springs

Work & commute in Tarpon Springs, FL

Most working residents leave Tarpon Springs for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Tampa (9%), Clearwater (9%) and Largo (8%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

990 of 10,093 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

22%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 9,103 Tarpon Springs residents head out of town to work, 990 work right here, and 8,140 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Tarpon Springs.

9,103live here, work elsewhere

990live and work here

8,140work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Tarpon Springs goes to work

Tarpon Springs (in town)right here

10%990

Tampa22.4 mi away

9%933

Clearwater11.7 mi away

9%892

Largo16.7 mi away

8%761

Palm Harbor4.6 mi away

6%580

St. Petersburg27.9 mi away

5%494

Dunedin7.7 mi away

3%265

Pinellas Park20.5 mi away

3%256

Town 'n' Country15.6 mi away

2%226

Oldsmar9.6 mi away

2%171

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%4,525

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

How far

How far Tarpon Springs commutes

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

30%

44%

18%

30%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Tarpon Springs is balanced between jobs and homes

0.90jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Tarpon Springs are

9,130 jobs are based in Tarpon Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Tarpon Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Tarpon Springs

9,130 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Tarpon Springs residents hold

10,093 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+29%

Jobs based in Tarpon Springs, 2013 → 2023: 7,102 → 9,130. 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.