Photo: Excel23 · CC BY-SA 4.0Five Points has 1.3 jobs for every working resident: 585 people commute in to work
Jobs & income C: better than 30% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability C−: more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 69% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 18 minutes each way (Florida 28, U.S. 26). Only 1% work in Five Points; the top destination outside it is Lake City (24%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Five Points
Five Points makes and builds things
73% of the jobs based in Five Points are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Five Points residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 19%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% 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 ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Five Points than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Five Points fell from 1,014 in 2013 to 589 in 2023, −42%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 440 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Five Points’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Five Points is better than 30% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Five Points’ grade.
Unemployment (10.3%) is left out: Five Points’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Five Points could be anywhere from D to B.
Five Points makes things: 73% of its jobs are in goods
589 jobs are based in Five Points. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Five Points’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Five Points, 2013 → 2023: 1,014 → 589. 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.
Half of Five Points commutes less than 29 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 38% 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.
Five Points fills up on a workday
On a workday 436 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 585 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Five Points on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.34 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.
24% of working residents work in Lake City
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Five Points clocks in
24% of workers
12% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 18 minutes each way, quicker than most of Florida
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Five Points workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 426 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Most trips from Five Points start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Five Points is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.0% of 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 426 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). 15.2% of Five Points households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Five Points’ commuters take a bus or train.
Five Points is 2,116th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Five Points, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Golden Beach FL | 1,029 | $236K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 211 | Yalaha FL | 1,404 | $121K | 0.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,114 | Mercersburg PA | 1,492 | $66K | 10.4% | 4.8% | 9% | C |
| 2,115 | Luck WI | 1,063 | $69K | 9.9% | 2.8% | 11% | C |
| 2,116 | Five Points FL | 1,097 | $63K | 11.1% | 10.3% | 1% | C |
| 2,117 | Fairview Park IN | 1,420 | $63K | 11.6% | 5.3% | 1% | C |
| 2,118 | Lake View IA | 1,122 | $69K | 8.8% | 0.6% | 15% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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.
24% of Five Points works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Lake City (24%). Darker towns draw more of Five Points’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Five Points workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Five Points | – | C | C− | 18 min | $63,207 |
| Lake City | 24% | C | B | 24 min | $56,472 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Five Points: questions
What is the median household income in Five Points?
$63,207 (±$8,866) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Five Points?
11.1%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Five Points?
18 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Five Points work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lake City (24%, 2 mi), Jacksonville (12%, 59 mi), Gainesville (5%, 41 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Five Points walkable?
Five Points is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Five Points without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Five Points, from the people who make the trip.
More of Five Points
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.