Photo: PopularOutcast · CC BY-SA 4.0Work means Gainesville for about half of Hawthorne’s working residents
Hawthorne grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Measured by household income, Hawthorne is behind 81% of U.S. towns. Only 3% work in Hawthorne; the top destination outside it is Gainesville (47%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Hawthorne apart on work
Nearly half of Hawthorne works in Gainesville
250 working residents, 47%, have their main job in Gainesville, 16 miles away. That’s 16 times as many as work in Hawthorne itself. The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Hawthorne
51% of Hawthorne residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 27% of the jobs based in Hawthorne pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Hawthorne pay little
26% of the jobs based in Hawthorne pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 36% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. 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 536 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Hawthorne gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Hawthorne is better than 18% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Hawthorne’s grade up (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($55,406, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.0%) is left out: Hawthorne’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, Hawthorne could be anywhere from D to B−.
The places Hawthorne commutes to
Where Hawthorne clocks in
47% of workers
6% of workers
1% 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.
Jobs in Hawthorne: what the 369 are
369 jobs are based in Hawthorne.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hawthorne, 2013 → 2023: 226 → 369. 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 Hawthorne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Hawthorne by day
On a workday 521 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 354 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Hawthorne on a workday afternoon, 11% 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.
Hawthorne’s commute takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hawthorne workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 611 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.
Half of Hawthorne commutes less than 17 miles
About 29% 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.
For most of Hawthorne, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hawthorne is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.1% 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 684 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 20% 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). 6.1% of Hawthorne households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hawthorne’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hawthorne places 3,915th of 5,397 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 110 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | Belleair Beach FL | 1,581 | $164K | 5.9% | 3.6% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,913 | Blanchard Township OH | 1,399 | $60K | 15.7% | 3.7% | 1% | C− |
| 3,914 | Sugar Grove Township PA | 1,542 | $67K | 17.3% | 6.9% | 2% | C− |
| 3,915 | Hawthorne FL | 1,505 | $55K | 15.4% | 1.0% | 3% | C− |
| 3,916 | Lenox IA | 1,364 | $61K | 11.3% | 1.2% | 38% | C− |
| 3,917 | Taylorsville KY | 1,333 | $43K | 28.7% | 2.9% | 8% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | 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 Hawthorne, 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 Hawthorne: questions
What is the median household income in Hawthorne?
$55,406 (±$9,169) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hawthorne?
15.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hawthorne?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hawthorne work?
3% work in town.
Is Hawthorne walkable?
Hawthorne is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hawthorne without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hawthorne, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hawthorne
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.