Photo: Yanjipy · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Hillsboro Beach works elsewhere
Hillsboro Beach has 329 jobs for 598 working residents. Jobs and income earn Hillsboro Beach A; getting around on foot earns it B+. For 28% of workers, the job is at home; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Hillsboro Beach: the gist
Home offices are common in Hillsboro Beach
28% of Hillsboro Beach workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Hillsboro Beach’s workforce skews older
37% of Hillsboro Beach’s working residents are 55 or older. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 598 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Hillsboro Beach gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Hillsboro Beach is better than 90% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Hillsboro Beach’s grade. It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
Unemployment (7.9%) is left out: Hillsboro Beach’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hillsboro Beach could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Hillsboro Beach’s commute takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hillsboro Beach workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 537 commuters (the 28% 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.
Hillsboro Beach is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hillsboro Beach, 2014 → 2024: 360 → 329. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hillsboro Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Hillsboro Beach by day and by night
On a workday 538 residents head out to work, 60 work right here, and 269 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Hillsboro Beach on a workday afternoon, 13% 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 2024, primary jobs.
9% of working residents work in Fort Lauderdale
Where Hillsboro Beach clocks in
9% of workers
8% of workers
7% 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.
How many miles Hillsboro Beach commutes
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Hillsboro Beach, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hillsboro Beach is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 15.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 743 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). 1.7% of Hillsboro Beach households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hillsboro Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hillsboro Beach is 372nd of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 102 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 125 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 370 | Richland Township KS | 2,620 | $119K | 1.7% | 3.4% | 6% | A |
| 371 | Hartford Township OH | 1,476 | $131K | 5.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| 372 | Hillsboro Beach FL | 2,015 | $94K | 5.4% | 7.9% | 10% | A |
| 373 | Edgewood IN | 2,087 | $88K | 2.9% | 1.8% | 3% | A |
| 374 | Buffalo Township MN | 1,945 | $118K | 5.4% | 1.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Hillsboro Beach, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
The towns next door employ 13% of Hillsboro Beach
The biggest share goes to Deerfield Beach (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hillsboro Beach workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillsboro Beach | – | A | B+ | 28 min | $94,432 |
| Lighthouse Point | under 3% | A− | A− | 29 min | $92,135 |
| Deerfield Beach | 7% | C+ | A | 28 min | $59,730 |
| Pompano Beach | 6% | C+ | A | 27 min | $67,195 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hillsboro Beach’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Hillsboro Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Hillsboro Beach?
$94,432 (±$28,213) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hillsboro Beach?
5.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hillsboro Beach?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hillsboro Beach work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Lauderdale (9%, 10 mi), Boca Raton (8%, 7 mi), Deerfield Beach (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hillsboro Beach walkable?
Hillsboro Beach is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 16% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hillsboro Beach 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 Hillsboro Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hillsboro Beach
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.