Photo: Astrophobe · CC BY-SA 4.0Bear Creek has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
131 jobs are based in Bear Creek, against 774 working residents. The two grades for Bear Creek are A for jobs and income and B for walkability. Family incomes here are higher than in 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Bear Creek, in a few figures
Bear Creek and St. Petersburg trade workers both ways
St. Petersburg is the top workplace for Bear Creek residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Bear Creek come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Bear Creek is a place people come home to
There are 131 jobs based in Bear Creek, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bear Creek has about 1,500 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 774 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Bear Creek
Family income is its strongest input ($135,298, U.S. $99,999); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (9.2%, U.S. 11.9%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
19% of Bear Creek’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (20% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 9.2%, against 16.2% for all residents. Unemployment (1.1%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($135,298), since student households pull the household median down ($66,923).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Bear Creek could be anywhere from B to A+.
23% of working residents work in St. Petersburg
Where Bear Creek clocks in
23% of workers
10% 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 Bear Creek on a workday
On a workday 761 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 118 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Bear Creek on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
Goods, not services: 45% of the jobs in Bear Creek
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bear Creek, 2013 → 2023: 70 → 131. 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 Bear Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Bear Creek: about 26 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bear Creek workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 737 commuters (the 14% 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.
Bear Creek’s commute, mile by mile
About 15% 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.
For most of Bear Creek, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bear Creek is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% 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 857 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, 40% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 84% 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). 3.9% of Bear Creek households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bear Creek’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bear Creek next to U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900: 496th of 5,404 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 494 | Orchard Grass Hills KY | 1,623 | $107K | 7.4% | 3.1% | <1% | A |
| 495 | Green Park MO | 2,670 | $79K | 7.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A |
| 496 | Bear Creek FL | 2,179 | $67K | 16.2% | 1.1% | 2% | A |
| 497 | Seven Fields PA | 2,864 | $114K | 0.6% | 5.4% | 2% | A |
| 498 | Green Township IN | 2,040 | $90K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Bear Creek, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
29% of Bear Creek works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to St. Petersburg (23%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bear Creek workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Creek | – | A | B | 26 min | $66,923 |
| Gulfport | 6% | B− | A+ | 23 min | $71,203 |
| South Pasadena | under 2% | B | B+ | 20 min | $53,075 |
| St. Petersburg | 23% | B | A | 26 min | $75,192 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bear Creek’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.
- Students. 19% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bear Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Bear Creek?
$66,923 (±$20,914) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bear Creek?
16.2% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 9.2%. Florida: 12.6%.
How long is the commute from Bear Creek?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bear Creek work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Petersburg (23%, 5 mi), Tampa (10%, 21 mi), Gulfport (6%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bear Creek walkable?
Bear Creek is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 12.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bear Creek without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 40% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bear Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bear Creek
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.