Photo: DanTD · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Masaryktown works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Masaryktown B−; getting around on foot earns it B−. Masaryktown has 162 jobs for 366 working residents. Home is the office for 2% of workers; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Masaryktown at work: what stands out
Masaryktown workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 36 minutes each way, against 28 across Florida. Over a year that’s about 276 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Masaryktown workers work from home
Only 2% 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 366 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Masaryktown
On income, poverty and job access, Masaryktown is better than 50% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Masaryktown’s grade up (6.5%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($60,938, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Masaryktown’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, Masaryktown could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Getting to work from Masaryktown takes about 36 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Masaryktown workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 454 commuters (the 2% 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.
Who commutes out of Masaryktown, and who commutes in
On a workday 366 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 162 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Masaryktown on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
11% of working residents work in Spring Hill
Where Masaryktown clocks in
11% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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.
Masaryktown works in goods: 54% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Masaryktown, 2013 → 2023: 94 → 162. 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 Masaryktown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Masaryktown
About 23% 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.
In Masaryktown, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Masaryktown is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 461 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). 8.5% of Masaryktown households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Masaryktown’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Masaryktown ranks: 1,626th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Golden Beach FL | 1,029 | $236K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 139 | Belleair Beach FL | 1,581 | $164K | 5.9% | 3.6% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,624 | Shannon Township KS | 1,124 | $98K | 10.7% | 4.6% | 2% | B− |
| 1,625 | Shrewsbury VT | 1,092 | $91K | 7.0% | 2.3% | 2% | B− |
| 1,626 | Masaryktown FL | 1,262 | $61K | 6.5% | 2.7% | 0% | B− |
| 1,627 | Highpoint OH | 1,132 | $47K | 9.5% | 10.5% | 0% | B− |
| 1,628 | Ladd IL | 1,384 | $67K | 6.4% | 2.5% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Masaryktown, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Next door is work for 11% of Masaryktown
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Masaryktown workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masaryktown | – | B− | B− | 36 min | $60,938 |
| Spring Hill | 11% | C+ | B+ | 30 min | $68,432 |
| Garden Grove | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Garden Grove: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Spring Hill. Darker towns draw more of Masaryktown’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 Masaryktown: questions
What is the median household income in Masaryktown?
$60,938 (±$23,046) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Masaryktown?
6.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Masaryktown?
36 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Masaryktown work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Spring Hill (11%, 5 mi), Tampa (9%, 33 mi), Brooksville (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Masaryktown walkable?
Masaryktown is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Masaryktown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Masaryktown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Masaryktown
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.