Photo: Wknight94 talk · CC BY-SA 3.0Hernando Beach has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Working from home is the commute for 26% of workers, next to 16% for Florida as a whole. Employers in Hernando Beach report 383 jobs; 839 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Hernando Beach are B for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Hernando Beach stands out on work
Hernando Beach and Spring Hill trade workers both ways
Spring Hill is the top workplace for Hernando Beach residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Hernando Beach come from (27% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Hernando Beach makes and builds things
54% of the jobs based in Hernando Beach are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Hernando Beach residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 15%. The jobs ↓
Hernando Beach workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 28 across Florida. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 839 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Hernando Beach: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hernando Beach is better than 57% of U.S. towns, #275 of 638 in Florida. Household income holds Hernando Beach’s grade up ($101,875, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hernando Beach could be anywhere from C to A.
Out of Hernando Beach to work: where people go
Where Hernando Beach clocks in
16% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
54% of the jobs in Hernando Beach make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hernando Beach, 2013 → 2023: 190 → 383. 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 Hernando Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Hernando Beach: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hernando Beach workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,016 commuters (the 25% 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.
A workday in Hernando Beach: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 820 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 364 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Hernando Beach on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
Hernando Beach’s commute, mile by mile
About 26% 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.
Most trips from Hernando Beach start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hernando Beach is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns, #594 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,363 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 2.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 70% 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). 4.5% of Hernando Beach households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hernando Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Hernando Beach ranks: 1,856th of 4,797 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,854 | York Township OH | 2,400 | $80K | 8.0% | 2.1% | 3% | B |
| 1,855 | Santa Nella CA | 2,107 | $99K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 4% | B |
| 1,856 | Hernando Beach FL | 2,675 | $102K | 5.5% | 6.3% | 2% | B |
| 1,857 | Avon NY | 3,434 | $72K | 8.1% | 4.6% | 14% | B |
| 1,858 | Dover PA | 1,959 | $75K | 6.0% | 7.1% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Hernando Beach, 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 Hernando Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Hernando Beach?
$101,875 (±$33,452) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hernando Beach?
5.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hernando Beach?
35 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hernando Beach work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Spring Hill (16%, 8 mi), Brooksville (7%, 16 mi), Tampa (5%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hernando Beach walkable?
Hernando Beach is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hernando Beach without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hernando Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hernando Beach
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.