Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY 2.5Households in Inglis earn less than those in 79% of U.S. towns
8% of workers work from home, next to 16% for Florida as a whole. 14.7% of residents are in poverty, against 12.6% across Florida. For jobs and income Inglis is better than 11% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Inglis: the figures worth knowing
Fewer jobs are based in Inglis than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Inglis fell from 539 in 2013 to 236 in 2023, −56%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Inglis’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Inglis is Ocala, 32 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (35) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 407 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Inglis’ grade explained
The poverty rate holds Inglis’ grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.8%) is left out: Inglis’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, Inglis could be anywhere from D− to C.
The 236 jobs based in Inglis
236 jobs are based in Inglis.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Inglis, 2013 → 2023: 539 → 236. 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 Inglis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Inglis commutes less than 33 miles
About 35% 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.
Who commutes out of Inglis, and who commutes in
On a workday 364 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 193 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Inglis on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.58 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.
9% of working residents work in Ocala
Where Inglis clocks in
9% of workers
5% 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.
Getting to work from Inglis takes about 37 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Inglis workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 591 commuters (the 8% 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.
Most of Inglis commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 640 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.1% of Inglis households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Inglis’ commuters take a bus or train.
5,056th of 6,161: where Inglis ranks among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 127 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 135 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,054 | Hughes Springs TX | 1,531 | $53K | 19.6% | 0.5% | 18% | D |
| 5,055 | Everett Township MI | 1,994 | $57K | 14.1% | 10.7% | 4% | D |
| 5,056 | Inglis FL | 1,640 | $57K | 14.7% | 3.8% | 11% | D |
| 5,057 | Memphis MO | 1,762 | $55K | 12.2% | 0.6% | 38% | D |
| 5,058 | Haskell OK | 1,740 | $34K | 20.7% | 6.5% | 7% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Inglis, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
The towns around Inglis
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Inglis workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inglis | – | D | B− | 37 min | $56,500 |
| Yankeetown | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Yankeetown: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Inglis’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 Inglis: questions
What is the median household income in Inglis?
$56,500 (±$30,043) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Inglis?
14.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Inglis?
37 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Inglis work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ocala (9%, 32 mi), Gainesville (5%, 48 mi), Crystal River (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Inglis walkable?
Inglis is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Inglis without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Inglis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Inglis
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.