Bay Pines Veterans Administration Home and Hospital Historic District · Photo: PaulaZZZ · CC BY-SA 3.0Unemployment in Bay Pines (0.0%) is among the lowest in the country
Jobs & income B+: better than 74% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #141 of 638 in Florida.
Walkability B−: more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns · #455 of 638 in Florida.
Household incomes here are lower than in 61% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 31 minutes each way (Florida 28, U.S. 26). Only 3% work in Bay Pines; the top destination outside it is St. Petersburg (19%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Bay Pines, in brief
Bay Pines fills up on a workday
Bay Pines has 4,601 jobs, 3.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 5,900 people are in town, more than double the 2,500 who live here. Day and night ↓
Jobs in Bay Pines have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Bay Pines went from 306 in 2013 to 4,601 in 2023, +1404%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Bay Pines pay better than its residents’ jobs
91% of the jobs based in Bay Pines pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 61% of the jobs Bay Pines residents hold. 99% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Bay Pines. The jobs ↓
Nearly all the work in Bay Pines is services
95% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 2% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Bay Pines and St. Petersburg trade workers both ways
St. Petersburg is the top workplace for Bay Pines residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Bay Pines come from (21% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What’s behind Bay Pines’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bay Pines is better than 74% of U.S. towns, #141 of 638 in Florida. Unemployment holds Bay Pines’ grade up (0.0%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($68,214, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bay Pines could be anywhere from B to A.
Bay Pines’s population more than doubles on a workday
On a workday 1,145 residents head out to work, 41 work right here, and 4,560 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,900 people are in Bay Pines on a workday afternoon, 136% more than live here.
3.9 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
4,601 jobs are based in Bay Pines. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bay Pines’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bay Pines, 2013 → 2023: 306 → 4,601. 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 Bay Pines’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Bay Pines clocks in
19% of workers
10% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 31 minutes each way, longer than most of Florida
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bay Pines workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 926 commuters (the 21% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Bay Pines commutes less than 9 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
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.
Most trips from Bay Pines start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bay Pines is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns, #455 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,167 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 80% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 6.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 89% 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). 6.3% of Bay Pines households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bay Pines’ commuters take a bus or train.
Bay Pines is 1,012th of 4,868 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Bay Pines, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 60 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 90 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| 91 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,010 | Whitewater Township IN | 2,755 | $87K | 1.0% | 4.5% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,011 | Washington Township OH | 1,945 | $83K | 2.6% | 3.3% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,012 | Bay Pines FL | 2,519 | $68K | 11.5% | 0.0% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,013 | Fearrington Village NC | 2,356 | $86K | 5.5% | 3.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,014 | Rock Run Township IL | 2,118 | $90K | 2.9% | 3.4% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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.
27% of Bay Pines works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to St. Petersburg (19%). Darker towns draw more of Bay Pines’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bay Pines workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Pines | – | B+ | B− | 31 min | $68,214 |
| Seminole | 6% | B | A− | 26 min | $75,774 |
| Madeira Beach | 2% | A− | A+ | 47 min | $75,781 |
| St. Petersburg | 19% | B | A | 26 min | $75,192 |
| West Lealman | under 2% | C | A | 29 min | $51,589 |
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 Bay Pines: questions
What is the median household income in Bay Pines?
$68,214 (±$16,173) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bay Pines?
11.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bay Pines?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bay Pines work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Petersburg (19%, 8 mi), Largo (10%, 7 mi), Tampa (6%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bay Pines walkable?
Bay Pines is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 12.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bay Pines without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bay Pines, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bay Pines
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.