Photo: StarkeDCD · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and the daily commute in Keystone Heights
Jobs and income earn Keystone Heights C−; getting around on foot earns it B−. Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers; Florida has 16%. Only 3% work in Keystone Heights itself; outside it, Jacksonville draws the most (19%, 44 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Keystone Heights: the figures worth knowing
Keystone Heights’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Keystone Heights is Jacksonville, 44 miles away as the crow flies. 19% of working residents (98) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% 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 ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Keystone Heights than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Keystone Heights fell from 592 in 2013 to 400 in 2023, −32%. 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 ↓
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 507 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Keystone Heights
On income, poverty and job access, Keystone Heights is better than 22% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Keystone Heights’ grade up ($80,217, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 17% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.4%) is left out: Keystone Heights’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, Keystone Heights could be anywhere from D to B−.
Where in the region Keystone Heights works
About 31% 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.
What work there is in Keystone Heights: 400 jobs
400 jobs are based in Keystone Heights.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Keystone Heights, 2013 → 2023: 592 → 400. 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 Keystone Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Keystone Heights on a workday
On a workday 493 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 386 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Keystone Heights to work: where people go
Where Keystone Heights clocks in
19% 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.
The daily trip from Keystone Heights: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Keystone Heights workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 625 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 Keystone Heights commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Keystone Heights is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 678 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). 2.0% of Keystone Heights households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Keystone Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Keystone Heights is 3,895th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 120 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 125 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 186 | Belleair Beach FL | 1,581 | $164K | 5.9% | 3.6% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,893 | Connellsville Township PA | 2,008 | $55K | 18.8% | 13.6% | 3% | C− |
| 3,894 | Wells VT | 1,195 | $75K | 15.5% | 6.4% | 2% | C− |
| 3,895 | Keystone Heights FL | 1,579 | $80K | 18.2% | 4.4% | 3% | C− |
| 3,896 | Wisner NE | 1,224 | $62K | 10.3% | 0.7% | 13% | C− |
| 3,897 | Pierson Township IN | 1,229 | $72K | 31.0% | 2.1% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Keystone Heights, 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 Keystone Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Keystone Heights?
$80,217 (±$13,285) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Keystone Heights?
18.2%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Keystone Heights?
33 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Keystone Heights work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jacksonville (19%, 44 mi), Green Cove Springs (7%, 25 mi), Palatka (4%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Keystone Heights walkable?
Keystone Heights is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 10.0 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Keystone Heights 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 Keystone Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Keystone Heights
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.