Beacon Square has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Beacon Square grades C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Employers in Beacon Square report 702 jobs, and 3,344 of its residents work somewhere. Measured by household income, Beacon Square is behind 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Beacon Square
Stores, warehouses and trucking
62% of the jobs in Beacon Square are in trade, transport and utilities, against 22% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
No single place dominates Beacon Square’s commute
The biggest draw, Tampa, gets only 7% of working residents, and 63% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Beacon Square residents fan out across the region. 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.
How Beacon Square earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Beacon Square is better than 28% of U.S. towns, #518 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Beacon Square’s grade up (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($56,650, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Beacon Square could be anywhere from C− to B−.
What Beacon Square’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beacon Square, 2013 → 2023: 682 → 702. 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 Beacon Square’s own residents hold wherever they work.
7% of working residents work in Tampa
Where Beacon Square clocks in
7% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
In and out of Beacon Square on a workday
On a workday 3,299 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 657 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,300 people are in Beacon Square on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Beacon Square
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beacon Square workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,120 commuters (the 16% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Beacon Square
About 23% 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.
The commute in Beacon Square is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Beacon Square is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns, #296 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.5% 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 3,729 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 50% 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 2.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 73% 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). 6.8% of Beacon Square households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Beacon Square’s commuters take a bus or train.
Beacon Square next to U.S. towns of 5,500 to 10,700: 2,397th of 3,069 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 182 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 341 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,395 | Geneva Township IN | 7,613 | $70K | 13.0% | 5.8% | 2% | C |
| 2,396 | Webster City IA | 7,815 | $63K | 8.6% | 7.0% | 41% | C |
| 2,397 | Beacon Square FL | 7,895 | $57K | 15.6% | 5.8% | 1% | C |
| 2,398 | Greenville MI | 9,256 | $63K | 11.5% | 7.4% | 18% | C |
| 2,399 | Raceland LA | 9,585 | $60K | 13.8% | 6.0% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,069 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Beacon Square, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
The towns around Beacon Square
The biggest share goes to New Port Richey (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Beacon Square workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Square | – | C | B+ | 29 min | $56,650 |
| Elfers | 2% | C+ | B+ | 31 min | $56,054 |
| Holiday | 2% | C | B+ | 30 min | $48,186 |
| New Port Richey | 3% | B− | A | 28 min | $47,606 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Beacon Square’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Beacon Square: questions
What is the median household income in Beacon Square?
$56,650 (±$7,583) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beacon Square?
15.6%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beacon Square?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beacon Square work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tampa (7%, 24 mi), Clearwater (5%, 16 mi), Palm Harbor (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Beacon Square walkable?
Beacon Square is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Beacon Square without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beacon Square, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beacon Square
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.