Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Tallahassee draws about two in three of Chaires’ working residents
For 21% of workers, the job is at home; Florida has 16%. Working residents average 21 minutes each way, next to 28 for Florida and 26 for the U.S. There are 17 jobs in Chaires for 125 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Chaires, and who commutes in
On a workday 125 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 480 people are in Chaires on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.14 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.
Where Chaires goes to work
Where Chaires clocks in
67% of workers
3% of workers
2% 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.
Goods, not services: 65% of the jobs in Chaires
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chaires, 2013 → 2023: 24 → 17. 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 Chaires’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Chaires: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chaires workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 249 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.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Near or far: the trip to work from Chaires
About 18% 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 towns next door employ 67% of Chaires
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Chaires workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaires | – | — | — | 21 min | $167,569 |
| Tallahassee | 67% | B− | A | 19 min | $57,409 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Tallahassee. Darker towns draw more of Chaires’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 Chaires: questions
What is the median household income in Chaires?
$167,569 (±$35,178) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chaires?
2.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chaires?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chaires work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Chaires without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 24% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chaires, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chaires
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.