Old Baker County Courthouse · Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY 2.5Unemployment in Macclenny (7.1%) is higher than in 83% of U.S. towns
About one in five work in Macclenny itself; outside it, Jacksonville draws the most (29%, 28 miles). For jobs and income Macclenny is better than 35% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (A). 10% of workers have no commute at all; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Macclenny
Where Macclenny’s Jobs & income grade comes from
The poverty rate holds Macclenny’s grade up (9.5%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Macclenny could be anywhere from D to A−.
Where Macclenny’s working residents head each day
Where Macclenny clocks in
29% of workers
2% of workers
2% 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.
Macclenny by day and by night
On a workday 2,203 residents head out to work, 495 work right here, and 2,966 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 (1.28 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.
In Macclenny, services account for most jobs
3,461 jobs are based in Macclenny.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Macclenny, 2013 → 2023: 3,379 → 3,461. 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 Macclenny’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes to work from Macclenny
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Macclenny workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,324 commuters (the 10% 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.
The distance from Macclenny to work
About 25% 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.
Macclenny is easy on foot, hard by bus
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 7.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,673 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). 7.7% of Macclenny households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Macclenny’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Macclenny ranks: 2,130th of 2,956 U.S. towns of 5,800 to 11,100
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 178 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 334 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,128 | Monroe Township OH | 7,922 | $93K | 12.1% | 11.6% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,129 | Gilead Township OH | 6,080 | $59K | 11.2% | 4.4% | 13% | C+ |
| 2,130 | Macclenny FL | 8,251 | $74K | 9.5% | 7.1% | 18% | C |
| 2,131 | Old Town ME | 7,589 | $52K | 21.3% | 1.8% | 12% | C |
| 2,132 | Buena Vista VA | 6,672 | $58K | 18.8% | 1.4% | 22% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,956 | 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 Macclenny, 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 Macclenny: questions
What is the median household income in Macclenny?
$73,942 (±$18,191) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Macclenny?
9.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Macclenny?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Macclenny work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jacksonville (29%, 28 mi), Gainesville (2%, 44 mi), Lake City (2%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Macclenny walkable?
Macclenny is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Macclenny without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Macclenny, from the people who make the trip.
More of Macclenny
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.