Most of Gonzalez commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Only 4% work in Gonzalez itself; outside it, Pensacola draws the most (25%, 12 miles). There are 3,092 jobs in Gonzalez for 6,445 working residents. The two grades for Gonzalez are B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Gonzalez in brief
Gonzalez makes and builds things
66% of the jobs based in Gonzalez are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Gonzalez residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 14%. The jobs ↓
Jobs in Gonzalez have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Gonzalez went from 1,527 in 2013 to 3,092 in 2023, +102%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Gonzalez are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 38 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What’s behind Gonzalez’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Gonzalez is better than 68% of U.S. towns, #194 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate holds Gonzalez’s grade up (4.2%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (4.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Gonzalez could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Goods jobs make up 66% of work in Gonzalez
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gonzalez, 2013 → 2023: 1,527 → 3,092. 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 Gonzalez’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Gonzalez, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gonzalez workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,297 commuters (the 11% 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.
How many people are in Gonzalez by day
On a workday 6,198 residents head out to work, 247 work right here, and 2,845 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11,000 people are in Gonzalez on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Gonzalez’s working residents head each day
Where Gonzalez clocks in
25% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Gonzalez
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.
In Gonzalez, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gonzalez is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns, #585 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.6% 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 7,096 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 40% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.0% of Gonzalez households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Gonzalez’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,078th of 2,362: where Gonzalez ranks among U.S. towns of 10,000 to 20,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Pinecrest FL | 18,635 | $206K | 4.3% | 3.0% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | Lake Butler FL | 17,125 | $183K | 3.7% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 156 | Palm Valley FL | 19,796 | $117K | 4.2% | 1.2% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,076 | Trenton OH | 14,241 | $81K | 7.2% | 4.3% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,077 | Mad River Township OH | 10,961 | $84K | 8.2% | 4.0% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,078 | Gonzalez FL | 14,458 | $82K | 4.2% | 4.4% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,079 | Doraville GA | 16,365 | $67K | 18.3% | 1.2% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,080 | Atoka TN | 10,645 | $90K | 7.0% | 4.5% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,362 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Gonzalez, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Gonzalez and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Ensley (5%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Gonzalez’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Gonzalez: questions
What is the median household income in Gonzalez?
$82,062 (±$10,560) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gonzalez?
4.2%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gonzalez?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gonzalez work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pensacola (25%, 12 mi), Ferry Pass (10%, 8 mi), Brent (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gonzalez walkable?
Gonzalez is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gonzalez without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gonzalez, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gonzalez
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.