With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Christmas works elsewhere
Employers in Christmas report 192 jobs for 1,120 working residents. Jobs and income earn Christmas C−; getting around on foot earns it B−. For 7% of workers, the job is at home, next to 16% for Florida as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Christmas: the figures worth knowing
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Christmas
On income, poverty and job access, Christmas is better than 23% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Christmas’ grade up ($73,224, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.9%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Christmas’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, Christmas could be anywhere from D to B.
Christmas quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,111 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 183 people come in from elsewhere.
About 770 people are in Christmas on a workday afternoon, 55% 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.
22% of working residents work in Orlando
Where Christmas clocks in
22% of workers
3% 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.
The kinds of work in Christmas
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Christmas, 2013 → 2023: 123 → 192. 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 Christmas’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Christmas takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Christmas workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 788 commuters (the 7% 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.
Where in the region Christmas works
About 17% 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.
In Christmas, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Christmas is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 845 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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). 0.0% of Christmas households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Christmas’ commuters take a bus or train.
3,905th of 5,760: where Christmas ranks among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 98 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 129 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,903 | Hamilton Township IN | 1,594 | $59K | 12.3% | 4.0% | 6% | C− |
| 3,904 | Moscow Township MI | 1,380 | $59K | 12.3% | 3.0% | 1% | C− |
| 3,905 | Christmas FL | 1,696 | $73K | 17.9% | 1.6% | 1% | C− |
| 3,906 | Galesburg MI | 2,071 | $52K | 25.7% | 6.9% | 2% | C− |
| 3,907 | North Belle Vernon PA | 1,817 | $51K | 23.3% | 5.5% | 5% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Christmas, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Christmas and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Bithlo (2%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Christmas’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 Christmas: questions
What is the median household income in Christmas?
$73,224 (±$20,080) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Christmas?
17.9%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Christmas?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Christmas work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (22%, 21 mi), University (8%, 12 mi), Titusville (3%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Christmas walkable?
Christmas is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Christmas without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Christmas, from the people who make the trip.
More of Christmas
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.