Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Blountstown has 2.5 jobs per working resident, and 1,698 people come in to work
Measured by household income, Blountstown is behind 86% of U.S. towns. There are 1,870 jobs in Blountstown; 759 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Blountstown is better than 19% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Blountstown stands out on work
Blountstown is where the jobs are
Blountstown has 1,870 jobs, 2.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,400 people are in town, 49% more than the 2,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
Blountstown’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Blountstown is Tallahassee, 47 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (84) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Few Blountstown workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 759 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Blountstown’s Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Blountstown’s grade up (2.5%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Blountstown could be anywhere from D to C.
Who commutes out of Blountstown, and who commutes in
On a workday 587 residents head out to work and 172 work right here.
About 3,400 people are in Blountstown on a workday afternoon, 49% more 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.
Where in the region Blountstown works
About 25% 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 trip to work from Blountstown: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blountstown workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,217 commuters (the 4% 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.
Commuting in to Blountstown: where workers come from
Where Blountstown clocks in
11% of workers
5% 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.
What Blountstown’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blountstown, 2013 → 2023: 1,566 → 1,870. 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 Blountstown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most trips from Blountstown start in a car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,272 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 13.5% of Blountstown households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Blountstown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Blountstown is 4,052nd of 5,328 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 92 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,050 | Stuyvesant NY | 1,882 | $66K | 12.6% | 7.3% | 2% | C− |
| 4,051 | Terra Bella CA | 1,659 | $63K | 17.0% | 32.4% | 8% | C− |
| 4,052 | Blountstown FL | 2,272 | $52K | 21.7% | 2.5% | 23% | C− |
| 4,053 | Anza CA | 1,898 | $84K | 10.5% | 11.1% | 7% | C− |
| 4,054 | East Rockingham NC | 2,779 | $34K | 31.0% | 2.9% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | 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 Blountstown, 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 Blountstown: questions
What is the median household income in Blountstown?
$51,762 (±$7,060) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blountstown?
21.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blountstown?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blountstown work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tallahassee (11%, 47 mi), Marianna (5%, 27 mi), Panama City (4%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Blountstown walkable?
Blountstown is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Blountstown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blountstown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blountstown
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.