Photo: The Bushranger · CC BY-SA 4.0Tallahassee draws more than half of Fort Braden’s working residents
Home is the office for 5% of workers; Florida has 16%. Hardly any stay in Fort Braden for work; outside it, Tallahassee is the main destination (57%, 18 miles). The average commute takes 32 minutes each way; Florida averages 28, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Fort Braden
More than half of Fort Braden works in Tallahassee
239 working residents, 57%, have their main job in Tallahassee, 18 miles away. That’s 57 times as many as work in Fort Braden itself. The commute map ↓
Fort Braden is a place people come home to
There are 66 jobs based in Fort Braden, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Fort Braden has about 560 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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; with 421 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Fort Braden goes to work
Where Fort Braden clocks in
57% of workers
3% 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.
Fort Braden quiets down on a workday
On a workday 418 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 63 people come in from elsewhere.
About 560 people are in Fort Braden on a workday afternoon, 39% fewer than live here.
0.16 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.
Fort Braden makes things: 41% of its jobs are in goods
66 jobs are based in Fort Braden.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fort Braden, 2014 → 2024: 14 → 66. 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 Fort Braden’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 32 minutes each way, longer than most of Florida
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fort Braden workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 405 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.
Where in the region Fort Braden works
About 19% 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.
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 Fort Braden: questions
What is the median household income in Fort Braden?
$80,272 (±$28,355) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fort Braden?
7.1%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fort Braden?
32 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fort Braden work?
1% work in town.
Can you get around Fort Braden without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fort Braden, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fort Braden
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.