Connerton has higher unemployment (8.7%) than 91% of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are higher than in 90% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Connerton B; getting around on foot earns it D. Working from home is the commute for 30% of workers, against 16% across Florida.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Connerton and work: the main findings
Home offices are common in Connerton
30% of Connerton workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Connerton’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Connerton is Tampa, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 21% of working residents (413) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Connerton workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 28 across Florida. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Connerton is a place people come home to
There are 553 jobs based in Connerton, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. 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.
Jobs & income in Connerton: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Connerton is better than 57% of U.S. towns, #276 of 638 in Florida. Household income holds Connerton’s grade up ($123,540, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Connerton could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
A commute of about 34 minutes in Connerton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Connerton workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,103 commuters (the 30% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Connerton
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.
Who commutes out of Connerton, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,974 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 529 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,200 people are in Connerton on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.28 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.
21% of working residents work in Tampa
Where Connerton clocks in
21% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 32% of the jobs in Connerton
553 jobs are based in Connerton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Connerton, 2013 → 2023: 122 → 553. 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 Connerton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Connerton gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Connerton is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns, #618 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 2,985 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 1.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 60% 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). 2.8% of Connerton households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Connerton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,018 U.S. towns of 5,400 to 10,300, Connerton comes 1,543rd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 176 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 331 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,541 | Frankfort NY | 6,847 | $63K | 7.3% | 3.3% | 8% | B |
| 1,542 | Ohio Township OH | 5,812 | $73K | 14.3% | 2.3% | 6% | B |
| 1,543 | Connerton FL | 7,650 | $124K | 5.0% | 8.7% | 1% | B |
| 1,544 | Wood River IL | 10,224 | $63K | 13.9% | 2.9% | 7% | B |
| 1,545 | Wake Village TX | 5,796 | $72K | 14.3% | 2.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,018 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Connerton, 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 Connerton: questions
What is the median household income in Connerton?
$123,540 (±$4,839) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Connerton?
5.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Connerton?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Connerton work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tampa (21%, 24 mi), Land O' Lakes (4%, 7 mi), East Lake-Orient Park (3%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Connerton walkable?
Connerton is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Connerton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Connerton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Connerton
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.