Photo: FloNight (Sydney Poore) and Russell Poore · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs, income and commuting in Hastings, FL
1% of workers have no commute at all; Florida has 16%. Only 2% stay in Hastings for work; outside it, Jacksonville is the main destination (16%, 44 miles). 396 jobs are based in Hastings for 576 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hastings, in a few figures
Hastings’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Hastings is Jacksonville, 44 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (95) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
51% of the jobs in Hastings are in trade, transport and utilities, against 16% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Few Hastings workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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; with 576 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The distance from Hastings to work
About 22% 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.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
65% of the jobs in Hastings pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hastings, 2013 → 2023: 412 → 396. 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 Hastings’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Hastings
of Hastings workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 108 commuters (the 1% 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 Hastings by day
On a workday 566 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 386 people come in from elsewhere.
About 250 people are in Hastings on a workday afternoon, 42% fewer than live here.
0.69 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Hastings goes to work
Where Hastings clocks in
16% of workers
14% of workers
3% 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 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 Hastings: questions
What is the poverty rate in Hastings?
74.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Hastings work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jacksonville (16%, 44 mi), St. Augustine (14%, 17 mi), Palatka (3%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hastings without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hastings, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hastings
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.