Photo: Florida. - Bureau of Historic Preservation. · Public domainInterlachen has lower household incomes than 90% of U.S. towns
Interlachen grades D− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Below the poverty line: 29.9% of residents (Florida 12.6%). 1% of workers work from home (Florida 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Interlachen: the gist
A big share show a job far from home
37% 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 ↓
Few Interlachen workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 475 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Interlachen’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Interlachen is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Interlachen’s grade.
Unemployment (7.8%) is left out: Interlachen’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, Interlachen could be anywhere from D− to D.
How far it is to work from Interlachen
About 37% 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.
The trip to work from Interlachen: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Interlachen workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 550 commuters (the 1% 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.
How a workday changes Interlachen
On a workday 470 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 279 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Interlachen on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.60 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.
13% of working residents work in Palatka
Where Interlachen clocks in
13% of workers
10% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Interlachen
284 jobs are based in Interlachen.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Interlachen, 2013 → 2023: 285 → 284. 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 Interlachen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting around Interlachen: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Interlachen is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Interlachen 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 555 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). 5.9% of Interlachen households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Interlachen’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Interlachen sits among U.S. towns of 1,100 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 110 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | Belleair Beach FL | 1,581 | $164K | 5.9% | 3.6% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,245 | Wayne WV | 1,383 | $27K | 25.8% | 5.5% | 10% | D− |
| 5,246 | Blackbird Township NE | 1,275 | $45K | 34.9% | 31.9% | 46% | D− |
| 5,247 | Interlachen FL | 1,502 | $48K | 29.9% | 7.8% | 1% | D− |
| 5,248 | Willacoochee GA | 1,256 | $33K | 27.7% | 1.1% | 17% | D− |
| 5,249 | Logansport LA | 1,325 | $32K | 36.3% | 14.6% | 5% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | 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 Interlachen, 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 Interlachen: questions
What is the median household income in Interlachen?
$47,950 (±$13,936) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Interlachen?
29.9%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Interlachen?
32 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Interlachen work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Palatka (13%, 14 mi), Jacksonville (10%, 51 mi), Gainesville (5%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Interlachen walkable?
Interlachen is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Interlachen without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Interlachen, from the people who make the trip.
More of Interlachen
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.