Glen Saint Mary Nurseries Company · Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY 2.5Where Glen St. Mary earns its living
Working residents average 30 minutes each way, where Florida has 28 and the U.S. 26. For 2% of workers, the job is at home; Florida has 16%. Only 5% work in Glen St. Mary; the top destination outside it is Jacksonville (33%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Glen St. Mary for work, and who comes in
On a workday 168 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 189 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 (1.12 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Glen St. Mary goes to work
Where Glen St. Mary clocks in
33% of workers
15% of workers
2% 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.
What Glen St. Mary’s employers do
198 jobs are based in Glen St. Mary.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glen St. Mary, 2014 → 2024: 106 → 198. 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 Glen St. Mary’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Glen St. Mary: 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 Glen St. Mary workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 223 commuters (the 2% 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.
Glen St. Mary’s commute, mile by mile
About 21% 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 Glen St. Mary: questions
What is the median household income in Glen St. Mary?
$59,167 (±$34,954) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glen St. Mary?
28.3%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glen St. Mary?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glen St. Mary work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jacksonville (33%, 30 mi), Macclenny (15%, 2 mi), Lake City (2%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Glen St. Mary without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glen St. Mary, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glen St. Mary
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.