Photo: Hoteltwo · CC BY-SA 4.0Unemployment in Crestview (5.8%) is higher than in 72% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Crestview is better than 26% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (B−). Home is the office for 7% of workers; Florida has 16%. About one in five work in Crestview; the top destination outside it is Fort Walton Beach (12%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Crestview
Crestview trades workers with the towns around it
Crestview has about as many jobs (10,031) as working residents (9,860), but they are mostly different people: 8,022 residents leave for work each day while 8,193 people come in. Only 18% of the jobs in Crestview are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Crestview draws workers from far and wide
The 10,031 jobs in Crestview are filled from a wide area. Crestview’s own residents hold 18% and the ten next-biggest home towns 15%; the other 67% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Crestview’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Crestview is Fort Walton Beach, 23 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (1,193) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Crestview
All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Crestview’s grade.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Crestview could be anywhere from D to B−.
The daily commute in and out of Crestview
On a workday 8,022 residents head out to work, 1,838 work right here, and 8,193 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 (1.02 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.
Commuting out of Crestview: the destinations
Where Crestview clocks in
12% of workers
4% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Crestview
About 20% 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 kinds of work in Crestview
10,031 jobs are based in Crestview.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crestview, 2013 → 2023: 9,353 → 10,031. 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 Crestview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Crestview: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crestview workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 12,315 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.
The commute in Crestview is mostly behind the wheel
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 13,267 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). 4.1% of Crestview households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Crestview’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 22,000 to 42,000, Crestview ranks 1,166th of 1,334 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Parkland FL | 39,186 | $199K | 4.3% | 3.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 92 | Jacksonville Beach FL | 23,615 | $121K | 4.8% | 1.8% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Palmetto Bay FL | 24,886 | $142K | 5.8% | 2.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,164 | Jasmine Estates FL | 23,571 | $51K | 18.1% | 5.0% | 3% | C |
| 1,165 | Florence SC | 41,231 | $56K | 18.9% | 5.4% | 40% | C |
| 1,166 | Crestview FL | 31,193 | $65K | 11.2% | 5.8% | 19% | C |
| 1,167 | Paducah KY | 26,730 | $50K | 22.3% | 4.0% | 53% | C |
| 1,168 | Biscayne Gardens FL | 35,472 | $55K | 22.6% | 8.6% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 1,334 | Barstow CA | 24,804 | $53K | 23.1% | 11.9% | 17% | 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 Crestview, 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 Crestview: questions
What is the median household income in Crestview?
$65,480 (±$5,238) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crestview?
11.2%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crestview?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crestview work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Walton Beach (12%, 22 mi), Wright (4%, 21 mi), Niceville (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crestview walkable?
Crestview is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crestview without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crestview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crestview
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.