Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0Tallahassee draws about half of Havana’s working residents
Havana grades D for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Home is the office for 23% of workers, next to 16% for Florida as a whole. Only 5% stay in Havana for work; outside it, Tallahassee is the main destination (46%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Havana stands out on work
Nearly half of Havana works in Tallahassee
328 working residents, 46%, have their main job in Tallahassee, 16 miles away. That’s 9 times as many as work in Havana itself. The commute map ↓
Havana makes and builds things
48% of the jobs based in Havana are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Havana residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
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 711 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Havana
On income, poverty and job access, Havana is better than 13% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Havana’s grade up (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (22.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Havana’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Havana could be anywhere from D to B−.
Where Havana goes to work
Where Havana clocks in
46% of workers
3% 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.
Goods, not services: 48% of the jobs in Havana
586 jobs are based in Havana.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Havana, 2013 → 2023: 555 → 586. 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 Havana’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Havana
On a workday 678 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 553 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 (0.82 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 29 minutes each way for Havana’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Havana workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 583 commuters (the 23% 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.
Half of Havana commutes less than 15 miles
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Havana, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Havana is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 761 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 11.8% of Havana households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Havana’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Havana is 4,876th of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 129 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 134 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,874 | Ossun LA | 2,271 | $41K | 24.6% | 9.6% | 1% | D |
| 4,875 | Elmore AL | 1,382 | $49K | 40.3% | 2.0% | 1% | D |
| 4,876 | Havana FL | 1,759 | $61K | 22.0% | 3.7% | 5% | D |
| 4,877 | Bangor MI | 1,965 | $50K | 19.9% | 7.6% | 10% | D |
| 4,878 | Ortonville MN | 1,967 | $56K | 12.1% | 2.1% | 43% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Havana, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
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 Havana: questions
What is the median household income in Havana?
$60,799 (±$9,423) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Havana?
22.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Havana?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Havana work?
5% work in town.
Is Havana walkable?
Havana is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Havana without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Havana, from the people who make the trip.
More of Havana
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.