Holmes Beach has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 1,568 people commute in to work
There are 1,681 jobs in Holmes Beach, and 914 of its residents work somewhere. Holmes Beach grades B for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 7.6 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 31.0 in Miami.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Holmes Beach: the gist
Holmes Beach is where the jobs are
Holmes Beach has 1,681 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Holmes Beach’s workforce skews older
44% of Holmes Beach’s working residents are 55 or older. That’s about two in five. 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 914 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Holmes Beach
On income, poverty and job access, Holmes Beach is better than 60% of U.S. towns, #257 of 638 in Florida. Household income holds Holmes Beach’s grade up ($88,333, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 39% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (5.6%) is left out: Holmes Beach’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, Holmes Beach could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Who works in Holmes Beach, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 801 residents head out to work and 113 work right here.
About 3,800 people are in Holmes Beach on a workday afternoon, 25% more 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.
What Holmes Beach’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Holmes Beach, 2013 → 2023: 1,470 → 1,681. 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 Holmes Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Holmes Beach’s workforce comes from
Where Holmes Beach clocks in
8% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
About 29 minutes each way, about the FL average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Holmes Beach workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 617 commuters (the 19% 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 Holmes Beach commutes less than 19 miles
About 28% 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.
Holmes Beach is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Holmes Beach is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns, #21 of 638 in Florida. Both inputs place Holmes Beach near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 759 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 62% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 7.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 90% 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). 2.5% of Holmes Beach households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Holmes Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Holmes Beach ranks: 1,786th of 4,771 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,784 | Cardington Township OH | 3,283 | $67K | 9.5% | 1.8% | 8% | B |
| 1,785 | Harmar Township PA | 2,998 | $65K | 14.8% | 2.6% | 7% | B |
| 1,786 | Holmes Beach FL | 3,027 | $88K | 7.7% | 5.6% | 12% | B |
| 1,787 | Statham GA | 3,350 | $74K | 13.0% | 2.7% | 2% | B |
| 1,788 | West Liberty IA | 3,717 | $69K | 11.3% | 2.0% | 27% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,771 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Holmes Beach, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
The towns around Holmes Beach
The biggest share goes to Anna Maria (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Holmes Beach workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holmes Beach | – | B | A+ | 29 min | $88,333 |
| Anna Maria | 6% | B+ | A+ | 19 min | $103,703 |
| Bradenton Beach | 2% | — | — | 46 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Bradenton Beach: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Holmes 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 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 Holmes Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Holmes Beach?
$88,333 (±$45,081) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Holmes Beach?
7.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Holmes Beach?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Holmes Beach work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bradenton (8%, 9 mi), Anna Maria (6%, 2 mi), Sarasota (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Holmes Beach walkable?
Holmes Beach is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 15.4 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Holmes Beach without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 62% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Holmes Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Holmes 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.