Photo: User:VitaleBaby · Public domainAnna Maria has 3.7 jobs for every working resident: 922 people commute in to work
Jobs & income B+: better than 69% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability A+: more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are higher than in 80% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 19 minutes each way (Florida 28, U.S. 26). About one in seven work in Anna Maria; the top destination outside it is Bradenton (11%, 10 miles).
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 5.7 transit trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 31.0 in Miami (EPA, 2020 schedules).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Anna Maria, in brief
Anna Maria has far more jobs than workers
Anna Maria has 955 jobs, 3.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,700 people are in town, 68% more than the 1,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Anna Maria are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida worker. Time on the road ↓
Anna Maria’s workforce skews older
40% of Anna Maria’s working residents are 55 or older. That’s about two in five. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 257 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Anna Maria’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Anna Maria is better than 69% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Anna Maria’s grade up ($103,703, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Anna Maria’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Anna Maria could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Anna Maria nearly doubles on a workday
On a workday 224 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 922 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Anna Maria on a workday afternoon, 68% more than live here.
3.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 19 minutes each way, quicker than most of Florida
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Anna Maria workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 158 commuters (the 23% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
955 jobs are based in Anna Maria. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Anna Maria’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Anna Maria, 2013 → 2023: 233 → 955. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Where Anna Maria’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Anna Maria clocks in
11% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Anna Maria commutes less than 20 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 28% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Anna Maria is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Anna Maria is more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Anna Maria near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 204 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 4% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 5.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 86% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.6% of Anna Maria households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Anna Maria’s commuters take a bus or train.
Anna Maria is 514th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Anna Maria, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Golden Beach FL | 1,029 | $236K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 194 | Palm Beach Shores FL | 1,350 | $87K | 5.3% | 9.1% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 512 | Woodmohr WI | 1,019 | $87K | 4.3% | 3.7% | 3% | B+ |
| 513 | Sunnyland IL | 1,231 | $91K | 15.4% | 21.0% | 0% | B+ |
| 514 | Anna Maria FL | 1,023 | $104K | 6.0% | 0.0% | 13% | B+ |
| 515 | Indio Hills CA | 1,117 | $92K | 0.1% | 23.1% | <1% | B+ |
| 516 | Custer Township IL | 1,347 | $122K | 11.3% | 11.6% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Anna Maria and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Holmes Beach (6%). Darker towns draw more of Anna Maria’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Anna Maria workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Maria | – | B+ | A+ | 19 min | $103,703 |
| Holmes Beach | 6% | B | A+ | 29 min | $88,333 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Anna Maria: questions
What is the median household income in Anna Maria?
$103,703 (±$6,237) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Anna Maria?
6.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Anna Maria?
19 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Anna Maria work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bradenton (11%, 10 mi), Holmes Beach (6%, 2 mi), Tampa (4%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Anna Maria walkable?
Anna Maria is more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 14.4 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Anna Maria without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 4% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Anna Maria, from the people who make the trip.
More of Anna Maria
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.