Photo: The Bushranger · CC BY-SA 4.0Eastpoint has some of the highest unemployment in the country: 16.4%
About one in seven work in Eastpoint; the top destination outside it is Apalachicola (19%, 8 miles). The two grades for Eastpoint are D for jobs and income and A− for walkability. 5% of workers work from home, where Florida as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Eastpoint in brief
Jobs in Eastpoint have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Eastpoint went from 319 in 2013 to 682 in 2023, +114%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
43% 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 ↓
Commutes from Eastpoint are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida 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 961 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Where Eastpoint’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Eastpoint is better than 6% of U.S. towns, #623 of 638 in Florida. Household income holds Eastpoint’s grade up ($68,258, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Eastpoint could be anywhere from D− to B−.
What the 682 jobs in Eastpoint are
682 jobs are based in Eastpoint.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eastpoint, 2013 → 2023: 319 → 682. 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 Eastpoint’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Eastpoint
About 43% 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.
Commuting from Eastpoint: about 17 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eastpoint workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,226 commuters (the 5% 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 daily commute in and out of Eastpoint
On a workday 820 residents head out to work, 141 work right here, and 541 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.
0.71 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.
The places Eastpoint commutes to
Where Eastpoint clocks in
19% of workers
8% of workers
7% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Eastpoint
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eastpoint is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns, #221 of 638 in Florida. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 7.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,293 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). 3.6% of Eastpoint households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Eastpoint’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Eastpoint sits among U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| 72 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,396 | Mount Vernon KY | 2,455 | $39K | 32.7% | 3.5% | 25% | D |
| 4,397 | Kimberling City MO | 2,345 | $50K | 19.5% | 7.0% | 5% | D |
| 4,398 | Eastpoint FL | 3,163 | $68K | 18.8% | 16.4% | 15% | D |
| 4,399 | Slocomb AL | 2,226 | $38K | 32.8% | 10.0% | 6% | D |
| 4,400 | Monticello GA | 3,040 | $49K | 16.3% | 14.3% | 22% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,698 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Eastpoint, 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 Eastpoint: questions
What is the median household income in Eastpoint?
$68,258 (±$9,210) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eastpoint?
18.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eastpoint?
17 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eastpoint work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Apalachicola (19%, 8 mi), Tallahassee (8%, 60 mi), St. George Island (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eastpoint walkable?
Eastpoint is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eastpoint without a car?
0% 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 Eastpoint, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eastpoint
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.