Baldwin’s household incomes are lower than in 90% of U.S. towns
For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 0.3 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 2.1 in Jacksonville. The poverty rate is 16.3%, where Florida as a whole has 12.6%. Baldwin grades C for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Baldwin at work: what stands out
More than half of Baldwin works in Jacksonville
425 working residents, 67%, have their main job in Jacksonville, 19 miles away. That’s 67 times as many as work in Baldwin itself. The commute map ↓
Baldwin makes and builds things
57% of the jobs based in Baldwin are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Baldwin residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 13%. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Baldwin than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Baldwin fell from 606 in 2013 to 324 in 2023, −47%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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 639 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Baldwin gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Baldwin is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Baldwin’s grade up (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($47,500, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (8.9%) is left out: Baldwin’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, Baldwin could be anywhere from C− to B+.
67% of working residents work in Jacksonville
Where Baldwin clocks in
67% of workers
1% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Making and building: 57% of jobs based in Baldwin
324 jobs are based in Baldwin.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Baldwin, 2013 → 2023: 606 → 324. 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.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Baldwin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Baldwin by day
On a workday 635 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 320 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Baldwin on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
0.51 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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 27 minutes each way for Baldwin’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Baldwin workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 581 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far Baldwin goes to work
About 17% 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.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Baldwin is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Baldwin is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Baldwin 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 620 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 96% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 96% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 46% 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). 10.3% of Baldwin households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Baldwin’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900, Baldwin comes 3,582nd on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 117 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,580 | Delmar WI | 1,027 | $74K | 13.0% | 1.7% | 0% | C |
| 3,581 | Gilbert Creek WV | 1,061 | $83K | 11.7% | 0.0% | <1% | C |
| 3,582 | Baldwin FL | 1,394 | $48K | 16.3% | 8.9% | 1% | C |
| 3,583 | Belmont MS | 1,820 | $47K | 16.6% | 1.7% | 18% | C |
| 3,584 | Stevenson WA | 1,596 | $77K | 11.9% | 5.0% | 22% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Baldwin, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
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 Baldwin: questions
What is the median household income in Baldwin?
$47,500 (±$28,685) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Baldwin?
16.3%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Baldwin?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Baldwin work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jacksonville (67%, 19 mi), Lakeside (2%, 17 mi), Macclenny (1%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Baldwin walkable?
Baldwin is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 11.1 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Baldwin without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 96% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Baldwin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Baldwin
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.