Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer people are out of work in Crawfordville (1.5%) than in 90% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers (Florida 16%). Crawfordville grades B+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Only 7% work in Crawfordville itself; outside it, Tallahassee draws the most (49%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Crawfordville apart
Nearly half of Crawfordville works in Tallahassee
1,188 working residents, 49%, have their main job in Tallahassee, 19 miles away. That’s 7 times as many as work in Crawfordville itself. The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Crawfordville
64% of Crawfordville residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 40% of the jobs based in Crawfordville pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 93% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
34% of the jobs based in Crawfordville are held by workers 29 or younger, against 23% of Crawfordville’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
The four measures behind Crawfordville’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Crawfordville is better than 73% of U.S. towns, #150 of 638 in Florida. Unemployment holds Crawfordville’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Crawfordville could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Out of Crawfordville to work: where people go
Where Crawfordville clocks in
49% of workers
1% of workers
1% 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 Crawfordville’s employers do
1,779 jobs are based in Crawfordville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crawfordville, 2014 → 2024: 1,394 → 1,779. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Crawfordville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Crawfordville on a workday
On a workday 2,232 residents head out to work, 176 work right here, and 1,603 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,100 people are in Crawfordville on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.74 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 2024, primary jobs.
Crawfordville’s commute takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crawfordville workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,946 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.
How many miles Crawfordville commutes
About 21% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Crawfordville, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crawfordville is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns, #537 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 3,178 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). 1.9% of Crawfordville households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Crawfordville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,476 U.S. towns of 4,000 to 7,700, Crawfordville comes 1,054th 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 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 177 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 190 | Highland Beach FL | 4,328 | $145K | 2.3% | 3.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,052 | Northwood OH | 5,252 | $77K | 13.8% | 0.2% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,053 | Medical Lake WA | 4,964 | $80K | 8.1% | 1.2% | 13% | B+ |
| 1,054 | Crawfordville FL | 5,732 | $83K | 4.7% | 1.5% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,055 | Treasure Island FL | 6,397 | $87K | 6.7% | 4.3% | 10% | B+ |
| 1,056 | Columbia CT | 5,352 | $127K | 6.1% | 6.0% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,476 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Crawfordville, 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 2024, 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 Crawfordville: questions
What is the median household income in Crawfordville?
$82,656 (±$26,710) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crawfordville?
4.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crawfordville?
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 Crawfordville work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tallahassee (49%, 19 mi), Jacksonville (1%, 162 mi), Tampa (1%, 192 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Crawfordville walkable?
Crawfordville is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crawfordville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crawfordville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crawfordville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.