Photo: The Bushranger · CC BY-SA 4.0Grand Ridge has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Working residents average 31 minutes each way; Florida averages 28, the U.S. 26. 165 jobs are based in Grand Ridge; 342 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Grand Ridge for work; outside it, Marianna is the main destination (23%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Grand Ridge apart on work
How far Grand Ridge’s workers travel
About 31% 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.
How a workday changes Grand Ridge
On a workday 340 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 163 people come in from elsewhere.
About 750 people are in Grand Ridge on a workday afternoon, 19% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Grand Ridge work
Where Grand Ridge clocks in
23% of workers
7% of workers
4% 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 Grand Ridge’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grand Ridge, 2014 → 2024: 43 → 165. 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 Grand Ridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes each way for Grand Ridge’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grand Ridge workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 428 commuters (the 12% 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.
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 Grand Ridge: questions
What is the median household income in Grand Ridge?
$68,750 (±$37,200) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grand Ridge?
14.3%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grand Ridge?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grand Ridge work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marianna (23%, 14 mi), Chattahoochee (7%, 11 mi), Blountstown (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Grand Ridge without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grand Ridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grand Ridge
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.