Heritage Pines has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
For 42% of workers, the job is at home, against 16% across Florida. Employers in Heritage Pines report 117 jobs, and 858 of its residents work somewhere. With B for jobs and income, Heritage Pines is better than 59% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Heritage Pines
Heritage Pines is a place people come home to
There are 117 jobs based in Heritage Pines, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Heritage Pines has about 740 people in it, 50% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Heritage Pines workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 46 minutes each way, against 28 across Florida. Over a year that’s about 353 hours of commuting, 138 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Home offices are common in Heritage Pines
42% of Heritage Pines workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. 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 858 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Heritage Pines’ Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Heritage Pines’ grade up (5.4%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($70,542, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Heritage Pines’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, Heritage Pines could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Heritage Pines
On a workday 855 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 114 people come in from elsewhere.
About 740 people are in Heritage Pines on a workday afternoon, 50% 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.
The daily trip from Heritage Pines: about 46 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Heritage Pines workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 90 commuters (the 42% 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.
13% of working residents work in Tampa
Where Heritage Pines clocks in
13% of workers
5% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Heritage Pines
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Heritage Pines, 2013 → 2023: 58 → 117. 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 Heritage Pines’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Heritage Pines goes to work
About 25% 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.
Heritage Pines places 1,695th of 6,308 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 120 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 126 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,693 | Jackson Township IN | 1,780 | $95K | 14.1% | 0.0% | 3% | B |
| 1,694 | Goodland Township MI | 1,739 | $108K | 8.4% | 6.8% | 2% | B |
| 1,695 | Heritage Pines FL | 1,477 | $71K | 5.4% | 0.0% | <1% | B |
| 1,696 | Ellerslie GA | 1,011 | $107K | 12.6% | 0.0% | <1% | B |
| 1,697 | Chebanse IL | 1,014 | $65K | 1.5% | 2.9% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Heritage Pines, 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 Heritage Pines: questions
What is the median household income in Heritage Pines?
$70,542 (±$11,791) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Heritage Pines?
5.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Heritage Pines?
46 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 42% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Heritage Pines work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tampa (13%, 33 mi), Spring Hill (5%, 7 mi), Clearwater (3%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Heritage Pines without a car?
0% 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 Heritage Pines, from the people who make the trip.
More of Heritage Pines
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.