Photo: FloNight (Sydney Poore) and Russell Poore · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Crescent City earn less than those in 98% of U.S. towns
Crescent City grades D− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Poverty touches 31.7% of residents; Florida has 12.6%. About one in ten stay in Crescent City for work; outside it, Palatka is the main destination (9%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Crescent City
A big share show a job far from home
41% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Crescent City workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 28 across Florida. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 637 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Crescent City earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Crescent City is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Crescent City’s grade.
Unemployment (13.3%) is left out: Crescent City’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Crescent City stays D−.
The distance from Crescent City to work
About 41% 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 daily trip from Crescent City: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crescent City workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 444 commuters (the 19% 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.
Who works in Crescent City, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 570 residents head out to work, 67 work right here, and 558 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.98 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Crescent City’s residents
Where Crescent City clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
Inside Crescent City’s 625 jobs
625 jobs are based in Crescent City.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crescent City, 2013 → 2023: 632 → 625. 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 Crescent City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Crescent City, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crescent City is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Crescent City near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 547 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 19.3% of Crescent City households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Crescent City’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Crescent City compares with 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,726 | Church Rock NM | 1,381 | $35K | 33.7% | 6.1% | 3% | D− |
| 5,727 | Fort Washakie WY | 1,219 | $37K | 32.3% | 19.3% | 32% | D− |
| 5,728 | Crescent City FL | 1,728 | $34K | 31.7% | 13.3% | 11% | D− |
| 5,729 | Richland GA | 1,394 | $25K | 35.9% | 9.4% | 7% | D− |
| 5,730 | Buena Vista GA | 1,583 | $29K | 35.9% | 1.9% | 16% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Crescent City, 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 Crescent City: questions
What is the median household income in Crescent City?
$33,971 (±$7,523) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crescent City?
31.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crescent City?
33 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crescent City work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Palatka (9%, 18 mi), Jacksonville (8%, 63 mi), Daytona Beach (3%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crescent City walkable?
Crescent City is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crescent City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crescent City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crescent City
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.