Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Center Hill has 0.6 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income C: better than 26% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B−: more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 61% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 29 minutes each way (Florida 28, U.S. 26). Only 2% work in Center Hill; the top destination outside it is Bushnell (7%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Center Hill, in brief
What’s behind Center Hill’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Center Hill is better than 26% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Center Hill’s grade up (11.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.7%) is left out: Center Hill’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Center Hill could be anywhere from D to B.
About 29 minutes each way, about the FL average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Center Hill workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 567 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Center Hill quiets down on a workday
On a workday 300 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 174 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in Center Hill on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.59 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.
7% of working residents work in Bushnell
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Center Hill clocks in
7% of workers
6% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 181 jobs in Center Hill are
181 jobs are based in Center Hill. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Center Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Center Hill, 2013 → 2023: 262 → 181. 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.
Half of Center Hill commutes less than 20 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 24% 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 Center Hill start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Center Hill is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 567 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). 0.0% of Center Hill households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Center Hill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Center Hill is 2,298th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Center Hill, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Golden Beach FL | 1,029 | $236K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 211 | Yalaha FL | 1,404 | $121K | 0.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,296 | Jackson Center OH | 1,446 | $65K | 13.7% | 5.2% | 11% | C |
| 2,297 | Buffalo City WI | 1,009 | $61K | 8.2% | 2.0% | 2% | C |
| 2,298 | Center Hill FL | 1,081 | $68K | 11.0% | 4.7% | 2% | C |
| 2,299 | Washington Township PA | 1,236 | $64K | 10.9% | 3.3% | 1% | C |
| 2,300 | Tivoli NY | 1,019 | $53K | 30.1% | 5.9% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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.
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 Center Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Center Hill?
$68,375 (±$14,412) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Center Hill?
11.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Center Hill?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Center Hill work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bushnell (7%, 8 mi), Wildwood (6%, 11 mi), Jacksonville (5%, 118 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Center Hill walkable?
Center Hill is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Center Hill without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Center Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Center Hill
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.