Kathleen has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Kathleen has 434 jobs, against 2,931 working residents. Jobs and income earn Kathleen C; getting around on foot earns it D−. Measured by household income, Kathleen is behind 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Kathleen apart
Stores, warehouses and trucking
59% of the jobs in Kathleen are in trade, transport and utilities, against 26% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Kathleen is a place people come home to
There are 434 jobs based in Kathleen, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Kathleen has about 4,700 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Kathleen and Lakeland trade workers both ways
Lakeland is the top workplace for Kathleen residents (30%) and also where the most people who work in Kathleen come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Kathleen
52% of Kathleen residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 33% of the jobs based in Kathleen pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 99% leave town for their job. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Kathleen
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Kathleen is better than 26% of U.S. towns, #538 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Kathleen’s grade up (ahead of 61% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (31.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Kathleen could be anywhere from D to B−.
The kinds of work in Kathleen
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kathleen, 2013 → 2023: 112 → 434. 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 Kathleen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Kathleen
On a workday 2,894 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 397 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,700 people are in Kathleen on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
30% of working residents work in Lakeland
Where Kathleen clocks in
30% of workers
5% 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.
From Kathleen, about 28 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kathleen workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,667 commuters (the 7% 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 far it is to work from Kathleen
About 18% 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.
For most of Kathleen, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kathleen is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns, #637 of 638 in Florida. Both inputs place Kathleen 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 2,881 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). 7.0% of Kathleen households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kathleen’s commuters take a bus or train.
Kathleen is 2,549th of 3,205 U.S. towns of 5,000 to 9,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 179 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 337 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,547 | Gladewater TX | 6,306 | $59K | 22.5% | 5.0% | 8% | C |
| 2,548 | Deerpark NY | 7,433 | $73K | 10.2% | 8.4% | 13% | C |
| 2,549 | Kathleen FL | 7,201 | $57K | 31.8% | 4.5% | 1% | C |
| 2,550 | Lacombe LA | 6,310 | $73K | 18.0% | 10.2% | 4% | C |
| 2,551 | Charles City IA | 7,013 | $59K | 13.3% | 4.6% | 46% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,205 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Kathleen, 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 Kathleen: questions
What is the median household income in Kathleen?
$57,097 (±$8,468) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kathleen?
31.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kathleen?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kathleen work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lakeland (30%, 7 mi), Bartow (5%, 21 mi), Tampa (4%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kathleen walkable?
Kathleen is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kathleen without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kathleen, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kathleen
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.